Enhanced Chemical Abundances in the L1157 Outflow: SiO and CH 3OH Observations

Details Enhanced Chemical Abundances in the L1157 Outflow: SiO and CH 3OH Observations Enhanced Chemical Abundances in the L1157 Outflow: SiO and CH 3OH Observations

Jun 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996apj...463..642a&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal v.463, p.642

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

40

Ism: Abundances, Ism: Individual Alphanumeric: L1157, Ism: Jets And Outflows, Ism: Kinematics And Dynamics, Ism: Molecules, Radio Lines: Ism, Shock Waves

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Millimeter and submillimeter wavelength spectral lines of CH3OH and SiO have been observed in the remarkable outflow source L1157. Statistical equilibrium analyses indicate that the abundances of both compounds are enhanced greatly in the blueshifted, southern lobe which is known to show evidence of active shock heating. Both the SiO and CH3OH emission in the blueshifted lobe peak at the same position as the CO J = 1-0 line The SiO and CH3OH lines originate from warm gas. The temperature deduced from the methanol observations matches the laboratory temperature at which pure CH3OH ice separates from an H2O:CH3OH mixture, and sublimates rapidly into the gas phase. The SiO shows evidence of kinematically distinct regions, with the higher velocity gas being more highly clumped, warmer, and enriched in SiO abundance by a factor of more than 105 relative to quiescent, dark cloud values. The slower gas is somewhat cooler and less dense, with an SiO abundance enhancement factor of 106, well above that seen in the Orion KL outflow. The CH3OH abundance, relative to H2, is 1.5 x 10-7, and its emission originates in gas with Tkin ≥ 100 K. A number of outflows are now known that show strong abundance enhancements in SiO and/or CH3OH due to evaporation of grain mantles or dust destruction due to shocks. This probably occurs in the bow shocks associated with supersonic jets, and the resulting abundance enhancements may be relatively short-lived after cessation of the jet, due to depletion back onto the grains and gas-phase chemical processing of CH3OH.

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