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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 416, Issue 1, Pages 159-163Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20034490
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ISM : abundances; ISM : molecules; stars : formation; ISM : individual : IRAS 16293-2422
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We report the first detection of triply-deuterated methanol, with 12 observed transitions, towards the low-mass protostar IRAS 16293-2422, as well as multifrequency observations of (CH3OH)-C-13, used to derive the column density of the main isotopomer CH3OH. The derived fractionation ratio [CD3OH]/[CH3OH] averaged on a 10 beam is 1.4%. Together with previous CH2DOH and CHD2OH observations, the present CD3OH observations are consistent with a formation of methanol on grain surfaces, if the atomic D/H ratio is 0.1 to 0.3 in the accreting gas. Such a high atomic ratio can be reached in the framework of gas-phase chemical models including all deuterated isotopomers of H-3(+).
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