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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 445, 期 4, 页码 4055-4072出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu2013
关键词
astrochemistry; hydrodynamics; radiative transfer; ISM: abundances; ISM: clouds; radio lines: ISM
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via SFB [881]
- DFG through Collaborative Research Center [SFB 881]
- Julich Supercomputing Center (JSC)
- European Research Council under the European Community [339177]
The (CO)-C-13 molecule is often used as a column density tracer in regions where the (CO)-C-12 emission saturates. The (CO)-C-13 column density is then related to that of (CO)-C-12 by a uniform isotopic ratio. A similar approximation is frequently used when deriving (CO)-C-13 emission maps from numerical simulations of molecular clouds. To test this assumption, we calculate the (CO)-C-12/(CO)-C-13 ratio self-consistently, taking the isotope-selective photodissociation and the chemical fractionation of CO into account. We model the coupled chemical, thermal and dynamical evolution and the emergent (CO)-C-13 emission of isolated, starless molecular clouds in various environments. Selective photodissociation has a minimal effect on the ratio, while the chemical fractionation causes a factor of 2-3 decrease at intermediate cloud depths. The variation correlates with both the (CO)-C-12 and the (CO)-C-13 column densities. Neglecting the depth dependence results in <= 60 per cent error in (CO)-C-12 column densities derived from (CO)-C-13. The same assumption causes <= 50 per cent disparity in the (CO)-C-13 emission derived from simulated clouds. We show that the discrepancies can be corrected by a fitting formula. The formula is consistent with millimetre-wavelength isotopic ratio measurements of densemolecular clouds, but underestimates the ratios from the ultraviolet absorption of diffuse regions.
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