An ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer detection of CH in NGC 7027 and an HeH^+ upper limit

Details An ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer detection of CH in NGC 7027 and an HeH^+ upper limit An ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer detection of CH in NGC 7027 and an HeH^+ upper limit

Oct 1997

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 290, Issue 4, pp. L71-L75.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Atomic Processes, Ism: Molecules, Planetary Nebulae: General, Planetary Nebulae: Individual: Ngc 7027

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We have detected an emission line at 149.18+/-0.06 μm in the ISO Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) grating spectrum of the planetary nebula NGC 7027. This line coincides in wavelength with both the HeH^+ J=1-0 fundamental pure rotational line at 149.14 μm and the CH ^2Pi_3/2 (F_2) J=3/2-^2Pi_1/2 (F_2) J=1/2 fundamental pure rotational lines at 149.09 and 149.39 mum. Another feature of similar strength at 180.7 μm is well-fitted by the CH doublet ^2Pi_1/2 (F_1) J=5/2-3/2 at 180.48 and 180.93 mum. We therefore attribute both the 149.18- and 180.7-μm lines to CH, the first evidence of this molecule in NGC 7027 and the first detection anywhere of the far-infrared lines of CH in emission. We estimate a CH/CO abundance ratio of ~0.06 and a CH/CH^+ ratio of ~0.2, the latter being more than an order of magnitude lower than predicted for photodissociation regions. The contribution from the HeH^+ J=1-0 line to the 149.18-μm feature is at least a factor of three lower than the predictions of Cecchi-Pestellini & Dalgarno (1993).

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