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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 675, Issue 1, Pages L33-L36Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/533412
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astrochemistry; ISM : abundances; molecular processes; stars : early-type; stars : formation; stars : individual (IRAS 18089-1732)
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APEX single-dish observations at submillimeter wavelengths toward a sample of massive star-forming regions reveal that C2H is almost omnipresent toward all covered evolutionary stages from infrared dark clouds via high-mass protostellar objects to ultracompact H II regions. High-resolution data from the Submillimeter Array toward one hot-core-like high-mass protostellar object show a shell-like distribution of C2H with a radius of similar to 9000 AU around the central submillimeter continuum peak position. These observed features are well reproduced by a 1D cloud model with power-law density and temperature distributions and a gas-grain chemical network. The reactive C2H radical (ethynyl) is abundant from the onset of massive star formation, but later it is rapidly transformed to other molecules in the core center. In the outer cloud regions the abundance of C2H remains high due to constant replenishment of elemental carbon from CO being dissociated by the interstellar UV photons. We suggest that C2H may be a molecule well suited to study the initial conditions of massive star formation.
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