2011AJ....142...70S

The Bok globule CB238 has been investigated in ¹³CO (220.4 GHz), C¹⁸O (109.7 GHz), CS (97.9 and 146.7 GHz), and SO (99.3 GHz) lines, and mapped with half-power beamwidths of 11'', 22'', 38'', 16'', and 36'', respectively. The two dense cores previously found in NH₃ are presently confirmed in CS. The cores exhibit similar physical and chemical characteristics. The lack of outflows, the limited chemical content, and the very modest depletion in the ammonia cores provide evidence that CB238 is not an evolved object. Molecular abundances and density ratios constrain chemical modeling whose results provide a chemical age close to the free-fall timescale.