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Sep 2004
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Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, International Astronomical Union Symposium 221, held during the XXV General Assembly
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Recent observations with high angular resolution revealed chemical differentiation in several pre-stellar cores; while N_2H^+ emission peaks at the core center, CO, CS and CCS emission peaks are offset from the center. Molecular abundances also vary among cores; some cores have high CCS abundance and low N_2H^+ abundance, but others have less CCS and more N_2H^+. Numerical calculations of a chemical-reaction network in contracting cores show that these differentiations and variations can be diagnostics of physical evolution of cores, because molecular abundances and distributions are determined by the balance between the dynamical and chemical time scales. In pre-stellar cores, low temperatures and high densities cause adsorption of molecules onto grains. Depletion time scale varies among species; early-phase species deplete first because of destruction via gas-phase reactions in addition to the adsorption. N_2H^+ is the last to deplete because of the low adsorption energy of its parent molecule N_2 and depletion of main reactants such as CO. Molecular D/H ratio is another probe of core evolution, since it increases as the adsorption proceeds.
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