Observations of HDO in the High-Mass Star Forming Regions

I present observations of the ground state (10,1-00,0) rotational transition of HDO at 464.925 GHz toward several high-mass star forming regions carried out with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. The spectra are modeled together with observations of higher-energy HDO transitions and submillimeter dust continuum fluxes present in the literature. Spherically symmetric radiative transfer model was used to derive the radial distribution of the HDO abundance in the target sources. The abundance profile is divided into an inner hot core region, with kinetic temperatures higher than 100 K, and a cold outer envelope. The derived HDO abundances relative to H2 are: (0.6-3.5)×10-8 and (0.1-25)×10-11 in the hot inner region and the cold outer envelope, respectively.

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Opracowanie rekordu w ramach umowy 509/P-DUN/2018 ze środków MNiSW przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę (2019).