Ammonia and methyl cyanide in hot cores

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Sep 1993

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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 276, p. 489 (1993)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

70

Interstellar Medium, Clouds, Interstellar Medium, Molecules, Radio Lines, Interstellar

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We have used the IRAM 3O-m telescope to observe the J=6-5, J=8-7, and J=12-11 rotational transitions of methyl cyanide (CH3CN) towards 11 ultracompact HII regions in the inner galaxy. The sources observed were taken from a recent study of high-excitation ammonia lines by Cesaroni et al. (1992). All of the sources in our list were detected. We have analysed the data assuming the observed lines to be optically thin and have derived "rotation temperatures" and column densities. For four of the sources, we have carried out a more sophisticated analysis allowing for the effects of optical thickness using a large velocity gradient statistical equilibrium program. We find in this way methyl cyanide column densities in the range 3 1015-8 1016 cm-2 , and kinetic temperatures in the range 85-160 K. We also present results of a small survey of similar sources which we have observed in NH3(4,4) and (5,5) using the Bonn 100-m telescope. An interesting feature of the new 100-m results is the discovery of two new sources showing high excitation ammonia in absorption. There is no obvious preference for sources to have ammonia absorption lines red-shifted relative to emission or vice-versa. Comparison with these and earlier ammonia (NH3) results of Cesaroni et al. (1992) show that the inferred rotation temperatures are similar below 50 K, but there are large deviations between temperature estimates from the two molecules at higher temperatures. The abundance ratio [CH3CN]/[NH3] which we derive varies between 2 10-4 and 8 10-3.

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