The Physical and Chemical Status of Pre-protostellar Core B68

Details The Physical and Chemical Status of Pre-protostellar Core B68 The Physical and Chemical Status of Pre-protostellar Core B68

2003-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303642v1

Astron.J. 126 (2003) 311

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/375458

We have investigated the physical and chemical status of the pre-protostellar core B68. A previous extinction study suggested that the density profile of B68 is remarkably consistent with a Bonnor-Ebert sphere with 2.1 $M_{\odot}$ at 16 K. We mapped B68 in C3H2, CCS, and NH3 with the Deep Space Network (DSN) 70m telescope at Goldstone. Our results show that the B68 chemical structure is consistent with that seen in other pre-protostellar cores (L1498, L1544) and is explained by time dependent chemical models that include depletion. We measured a kinetic temperature of 11K with NH3 (1,1) and (2,2) spectra. We also show that B68 is thermally dominated with little contribution from turbulence support (< 10%). We consider a modified Bonnor-Ebert sphere to include effects of turbulence and magnetic fields and use it to constrain the uncertainties in its distance determination. We conclude that the distance to B68 is $\sim$ 95pc with a corresponding mass of $\sim$ 1.0 $M_{\odot}$. If some magnetic field is present it can be further away (beyond $\sim$ 100pc) and still satisfy the density structure of a Bonnor-Ebert sphere. Our observations do not preclude any instability such as the onset of collapse, or slow contraction, occurring in the center of the core, which cannot be resolved with our beam size (45").

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