First results from the UHRF : ultra-high-resolution observations of interstellar CH, CH+, CN towards dzeta Ophiuchi.
Abstract
We present ultra-high-resolution observations (R> 700000) of interstellar CH, CH+ and CN towards ζ Oph obtained with the newly commissioned Ultra-High- Resolution Facility (UHRF) at the AAT. The molecular lines have all been fully resolved, and we discuss their implications for this well-studied molecular sightline. The CH and CN lines each consist of two narrow (b ≈ 0.5 km s-1) components separated by 1.13±0.10 km s-1; an additional broad (b = 1.8 km s-1) component is present in CH. We show that the very broad (b =2.1 km s-11) CH+ line profile is consistent with the formation of this molecule in warm haloes surrounding the cold cores responsible for the narrow CH and CN components.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- February 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/266.4.903
- Bibcode:
- 1994MNRAS.266..903C
- Keywords:
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- line: profiles - stars: individual: ζ Oph - ISM: molecules