Detection of doubly-deuterated methanol in the solar-type protostar IRAS16293-2422

Details Detection of doubly-deuterated methanol in the solar-type protostar IRAS16293-2422 Detection of doubly-deuterated methanol in the solar-type protostar IRAS16293-2422

2002-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207577v1

Astron.Astrophys. 393 (2002) L49-L54

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20021131

We report the first detection of doubly-deuterated methanol (CHD2OH), as well as firm detections of the two singly-deuterated isotopomers of methanol (CH2DOH and CH3OD), towards the solar-type protostar IRAS16293-2422. From the present multifrequency observations, we derive the following abundance ratios: [CHD2OH]/[CH3OH] = 0.2 +/- 0.1, [CH2DOH]/[CH3OH] = 0.9 +/- 0.3, [CH3OD]/[CH3OH] = 0.04 +/- 0.02. The total abundance of the deuterated forms of methanol is greater than that of its normal hydrogenated counterpart in the circumstellar material of IRAS16293-2422, a circumstance not previously encountered. Formaldehyde, which is thought to be the chemical precursor of methanol, possesses a much lower fraction of deuterated isotopomers (~ 20%) with respect to the main isotopic form in IRAS16293-2422. The observed fractionation of methanol and formaldehyde provides a severe challenge to both gas-phase and grain-surface models of deuteration. Two examples of the latter model are roughly in agreement with our observations of CHD2OH and CH2DOH if the accreting gas has a large (0.2-0.3) atomic D/H ratio. However, no gas-phase model predicts such a high atomic D/H ratio, and hence some key ingredient seems to be missing.

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