Search for interstellar methane

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Apr 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3061..335k&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Ames Research Center, Carbon in the Galaxy: Studies from Earth and Space p 335 (SEE N90-27562 21-88)

Physics

Interstellar Gas, Methane, Molecular Clouds, Depletion, Embedding, Freezing, Infrared Radiation, Oxygen, Spectra, Water

Scientific paper

Researchers searched for interstellar methane in the spectra of infrared sources embedded in molecular clouds. New observations of several lines of the P and R branches of the nu 3 band of CH4 near 3.3 microns give column densities in the range N less than 1(-2) times 10 to the minus 16th power cm(-2). Resulting abundance ratios are (CH4)/(CO) less than 3.3 times 10 to the minus 2nd power toward GL961 in NGC 2244 and less than 2.4 times 10 to the minus 3rd power toward GL989 in the NGC 2264 molecular cloud. The limits, and those determined in earlier observations of BN in Orion and GL490, suggest that there is little methane in molecular clouds. The result agrees with predictions of chemical models. Exceptions could occur in clouds where oxygen may be depleted, for example by H2O freezing on grains. The present observations probably did not sample such regions.

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