Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005apjs..156..127c&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 156, Issue 2, pp. 127-167.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Ism: Abundances, Ism: Individual: Name: Orion, Ism: Molecules, Line: Formation, Line: Identification, Submillimeter
Scientific paper
With the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, we have carried out an unbiased spectral line survey of Orion KL throughout the 350 μm band (from 795 to 903 GHz). This is the first systematic study of molecular radiation in this frequency range. A total of 541 features, resulting from 929 transitions from a total of 26 species, have been detected. High-excitation transitions from CH3OH, CH3CN, H2CO, HNCO, and C2H5CN indicate the presence of a very hot (~250 K) component at the systemic velocity characteristic of the Hot Core. Physical parameters (column density and rotational temperature) relative to a number of species have been estimated by fitting, in the LTE approximation, the whole 100 GHz spectrum at once, thus taking line blending and optical depth effects properly into account. We also report the tentative detection, for the first time outside the Galactic center region, of the radical NH2, one of the building blocks of the chemistry of ammonia.
Comito Carlo
Lis Darek C.
Mehringer David
Motte Frederique
Phillips Thomas G.
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