A Study of Deutero-Ammonia in the Pre-Stellar Condensation in L1689N

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We present OVRO Millimeter Wave Array, NRAO 12m, and MWO 4.9m measurements of the 111 -> 101 transition of ortho-NH_2D toward the L1689N molecular cloud. These measurements indicate that the L1689N core contains at least two solar masses of material at a temperature near 8 K. The oblong structure of the NH_2D emission, several thousand AU in extent, lies roughly parallel to the ammonia disk enveloping IRAS16293-2422, about 16000 AU to the east. Any dust core embedded within the molecular core contains less than a few percent of the total molecular mass. From scales of one to ten thousand AU, the temperature and column density of NH_2D appear to remain constant. The extent of deuterium fractionation in NH_3 suggests that the core temperature has varied little, at least over the past several thousand years.

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