Carbon-Chain and Organic Molecules around Very Low-Luminosity Protostellar Objects of L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522

Details Carbon-Chain and Organic Molecules around Very Low-Luminosity Protostellar Objects of L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522 Carbon-Chain and Organic Molecules around Very Low-Luminosity Protostellar Objects of L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522

2010-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1012.1176v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

25 pages, 4 figures

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We have observed dense gas around the Very Low-Luminosity Ob jects (VeLLOs) L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522 in carbon-chain and organic molecular lines with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. Towards L1521F-IRS, carbon-chain lines of CH3CCH (50-40), C4H (17/2-15/2), and C3H2 (212-101) are 1.5 - 3.5 times stronger than those towards IRAM 04191+1522, and the abundances of the carbon-chain molecules towards L1521F-IRS are 2 to 5 times higher than those towards IRAM 04191+1522. Mapping observations of these carbon-chain molecular lines show that in L1521F the peak positions of these carbon-chain molecular lines are different from each other and there is no emission peak towards the VeLLO position, while in IRAM 04191+1522 these carbon-chain lines are as weak as the detection limits except for the C3H2 line. The observed chemical differentiation between L1521F and IRAM 04191+1522 suggests that the evolutionary stage of L1521F-IRS is younger than that of IRAM 04191+1522, consistent with the extent of the associated outflows seen in the 13CO (1-0) line. The non-detection of the organic molecular lines of CH3OH (6-2-7-1 E) and CH3CN (60-50) implies that the warm (~ 100 K) molecular-desorbing region heated by the central protostar is smaller than ~ 100 AU towards L1521F-IRS and IRAM 04191+1522, suggesting the young age of these VeLLOs. We propose that the chemical status of surrounding dense gas can be used to trace the evolutionary stages of VeLLOs.

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