The depletion of NO in pre-protostellar cores

Details The depletion of NO in pre-protostellar cores The depletion of NO in pre-protostellar cores

2007-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701349v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1051/0004-6361:20066131

Understanding the depletion of heavy elements is a fundamental step towards determining the structure of pre-protostellar cores just prior to collapse. We study the dependence of the NO abundance on position in the pre-protostellar cores L1544 and L183. We observed the 150 GHz and 250~GHz transitions of NO and the 93 GHz transitions of \NTHP \ towards L1544 and L183 using the IRAM 30 m telescope. We compare the variation of the NO column density with position in these objects with the H column density derived from dust emission measurements. We find that NO behaves differently from \NTHP \ and appears to be partially depleted in the high density core of L1544. Other oxygen-containing compounds are also likely to be partially depleted in dense-core nuclei. The principal conclusions are that: the prestellar core L1544 is likely to be 'carbon-rich'; the nitrogen chemistry did not reach equilibrium prior to gravitational collapse, and nitrogen is initially (at densities of the order of $10^4$~cm$^{-3}$) mainly in atomic form; the grain sticking probabilities of atomic C, N and, probably, O are significantly smaller than unity.

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