Low sulfur depletion in the Horsehead PDR

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2006-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605716v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

20 pages, 17 figures, accepted in A&A, 2006 June 9 (Figs 1 & 4 are bitmaped)

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065260

We present 3.65''x3.34'' angular-resolution IRAM PdBI observations of the CS J=2-1 line toward the Horsehead Photodissociation Region (PDR), complemented with IRAM-30m single-dish observations of several rotational lines of CS, C34S and HCS+. We analyse the CS and HCS+ photochemistry, excitation and radiative transfer to obtain their abundances and the physical conditions prevailing in the cloud edge. Since the CS abundance scales to that of sulfur, we determine the gas phase sulfur abundance in the PDR, an interesting intermediate medium between translucent clouds (where sulfur remains in the gas phase) and dark clouds (where large depletions have been invoked). A nonlocal non-LTE radiative transfer code including dust and cosmic background illumination adapted to the Horsehead geometry has been developed to carefuly analyse the CS, C34S, HCS+ and C18O rotational line emission. We use this model to consistently link the line observations with photochemical models to determine the CS/HCS+/S/S+ structure of the PDR. The combination of CS, C34S and HCS+ observations together with the inclusion of the most recent CS collisional and chemical rates in our models implies that sulfur depletion invoked to account for CS and HCS+ abundances is much smaller than in previous studies.

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