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2016ApJ...826..193L - Astrophys. J., 826, 193-193 (2016/August-1)

The intrinsic abundance ratio and X-factor of CO isotopologues in L 1551 shielded from FUV photodissociation.

LIN S.-J., SHIMAJIRI Y., HARA C., LAI S.-P., NAKAMURA F., SUGITANI K., KAWABE R., KITAMURA Y., YOSHIDA A., TATEI H., AKASHI T., HIGUCHI A.E. and TSUKAGOSHI T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We investigate the intrinsic abundance ratio of 13CO to C18O and the X-factor in L 1551 using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45 m telescope. L 1551 is chosen because it is relatively isolated in the Taurus molecular cloud shielded from FUV photons, providing an ideal environment for studying the target properties. Our observations cover ∼40^′ ×40^′ with a resolution of ∼30^′′ , which make up maps with the highest spatial dynamical range to date. We derive the {X}{{13}CO/{X}_{{C}^{18}Ø} value on the sub-parsec scales in the range of ∼3-27 with a mean value of 8.0±2.8. Comparing to the visual extinction map derived from the Herschel observations, we found that the abundance ratio reaches its maximum at low {A}_{V} (i.e., {A}_{V} ∼ 1-4 mag), and decreases to the typical solar system value of 5.5 inside L 1551 MC. The high {X}{{13}CO/{X}_{{C}^{18}Ø} value at the boundary of the cloud is most likely due to the selective FUV photodissociation of C18O. This is in contrast with Orion-A where internal OB stars keep the abundance ratio at a high level, greater than ∼10. In addition, we explore the variation of the X-factor, because it is an uncertain, but widely used, quantity in extragalactic studies. We found that the X-factor ∝{N}{{H}{2}}^{1.0} , which is consistent with previous simulations. Excluding the high density region, the average X-factor is similar to the Milky Way average value.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): ISM: abundances - ISM: clouds - ISM: individual objects: L1551 - photon-dominated region , PDR

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