ALMA ACA and Nobeyama Observations of Two Orion Cores in Deuterated Molecular Lines
Abstract
We mapped two molecular cloud cores in the Orion A cloud with the 7 m Array of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeterArray (ALMA) and with the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope. These cores have bright N2D+ emission in single-pointing observations with the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope, have a relatively high deuterium fraction, and are thought to be close to the onset of star formation. One is a star-forming core, and the other is starless. These cores are located along filaments observed in N2H+ and show narrow line widths of 0.41 km s-1 and 0.45 km s-1 in N2D+, respectively, with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. Both cores were detected with the ALMA ACA 7 m Array in the continuum and molecular lines at Band 6. The starless core G211 shows a clumpy structure with several sub-cores, which in turn show chemical differences. Also, the sub-cores in G211 have internal motions that are almost purely thermal. The starless sub-core G211D, in particular, shows a hint of the inverse P Cygni profile, suggesting infall motion. The star-forming core G210 shows an interesting spatial feature of two N2D+ peaks of similar intensity and radial velocity located symmetrically with respect to the single dust continuum peak. One interpretation is that the two N2D+ peaks represent an edge-on pseudo-disk. The CO outflow lobes, however, are not directed perpendicular to the line connecting both N2D+ peaks.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- June 2020
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2004.12548
- Bibcode:
- 2020ApJ...895..119T
- Keywords:
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- Star forming regions;
- Astrochemistry;
- Interstellar medium;
- Giant molecular clouds;
- Molecular clouds;
- Collapsing clouds;
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 31 pages, 17 figures, 9 tables, to appear in ApJ (accepted April 23, 2020)