Molecules in protostellar shocks: the CHESS view on L1157-B1

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May 2011

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The Molecular Universe, Proceedings of the 280th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Toledo, Spain, May 30

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Shocks driven by protostellar outflows play an important role in the chemical evolution of molecular gas through temperature and density changes resulting from the activation of endothermic reactions, ionization, and dust destruction. These various processes lead to molecular abundance enhancements up to several orders of magnitude, as reported for various molecular species in "chemically active" outflows, whose archetype is the outflow of the low mass Class 0 protostar L1157. The opening up of the full far-infrared and submillimeter wavelength domains by Herschel has deep impact in the field by providing access to key spectral diagnostics of shock dynamics and chemistry at very high spectral resolution with HIFI and permitting to map the brightest features with the PACS and SPIRE multi-pixel spectrometers. We present the results of the spectral survey of the shock region L1157-B1 from 3.75mm up to 60 μm, carried out with the instruments onboard Herschel and with the IRAM 30m telescope, as part of the CHESS key project. The unprecedented sensitivity of these instruments brings new insight both on the molecular content and the physical conditions of this long studied region, thanks to the detection of hydrides (H2O, NH, HCl, ..) and of the high-excitation lines of heavy molecules (CO, CS, HCO+, HCN, ..). We will discuss the molecular content and the properties of the warm chemically enriched gas (abundance, excitation conditions). We will show how multi-transition analysis of the line profiles allows to constrain the shock physical conditions, the formation scenarios of various molecular species, including water, in relation with the predictions of MHD shock models.

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