Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005cha%26a..29..370w&link_type=abstract
Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 29, Issue 4, p. 370-379.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
The MSX infrared dark cloud G79.2+0.38 has been observed over a 11′×′ region simultaneously in the J=1-0 rotational transition lines of the 12CO and its isotopic molecules 13CO and 18CO. The dense molecular cores defined by the C18O line are found to be associated with the two high-extinction patches shown in the MSX A-band image. The two dense cores have the column density N (H2) ˜ (5 12) × 1022 cm-2 and the mean number density n ˜ (3 ± 1) × 104 cm-3. Their sizes are 1.7 and 1.2 pc in 13CO(1-0) line, 1.2 and 0.6 pc in C18O(1-0) line, respectively. The masses of these cloud cores are estimated to be in the range from 2 × 102 to 2 × 103M&sun;. The profile of radial mean density of the cloud core can be described by the exponential function ¯n(p) ˜ p-0.34±0.02. Compared with the cases of typical optical dark clouds, the abundances of the CO isotopic molecules 13CO and C18O in this MSX infrared dark cloud appear to be depleted by a factor of 4 11, but at present there is no evidence for any obvious variation of the relative abundance ratio X13/18 between 13CO and C18O with the column density.
Wu Ling-Xiang
Yang Ji
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