Detection of CO+ toward the reflection nebula NGC 7023

Details Detection of CO+ toward the reflection nebula NGC 7023 Detection of CO+ toward the reflection nebula NGC 7023

1996-12-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612134v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 1 Postscript figure, uses aasms4.sty. to appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/310532

We have detected CO+ toward the photon-dominated region (PDR) associated with the reflection nebula NGC 7023. This is the first detection of CO+ in the vicinity of a Be star. A CO+ column density of ~ 3E11 cm-2 has been derived toward the PDR peak. We have, however, not detected CO+ in a well shielded clump of the adjacent molecular cloud, where the CO+/HCO+ abundance ratio is at least 100 times lower than in the PDR. Our results show, for the first time, that CO^+ column densities as large as ~ 3E11 cm-2 can be produced in regions with incident UV fields of just a few 1E3 (in units of Habing field) and densities of ~ 1E5 cm-3. Furthermore, since the ionization potential of CO is larger than 13.6 eV, our data rule out the direct photoionization of CO as a significant CO+ formation mechanism.

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