The 12C/13C Isotopic Ratio in Photodissociated Gas in M42

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1996-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606143v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 postscript figures, uses aaspp4 macros

Scientific paper

10.1086/310204

We have observed the 158 micron 2P3/2-2P1/2 fine-structure line of 12C II simultaneously with the F=2-1 and F=1-0 hyperfine components of this transition in 13C II in the Orion photodissociation region near theta1C . The line profiles were fully resolved using a heterodyne spectrometer with 0.5 km/s resolution. The relative intensities of these lines give a 12C/13C isotopic ratio of R=58 (+6,-5) for the most probable 12C II peak optical depth tau=1.3 . The constrained range of tau(12C II) between 1.0 and 1.4 corresponds to a range of 12C/13C between 52 and 61. The most probable value of 58 agrees very well with that obtained from a relationship between the isotopic ratio and galactocentric distance derived from CO measurements, but is lower than the specific value of 67(+-3) obtained for Orion from CO data. An isotopic ratio as low as 43, as previously suggested based on optical absorption measurements of the local interstellar medium, is excluded by the C II data at about the 2 sigma level.

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