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2000ApJ...539L.133P - Astrophys. J., 539, L133-L136 (2000/August-3)

Large-scale 13CO J=5⟶4 and [C I] mapping of Orion A.

PLUME R., BENSCH F., HOWE J.E., ASHBY M.L.N., BERGIN E.A., CHIN G., ERICKSON N.R., GOLDSMITH P.F., HARWIT M., KLEINER S., KOCH D.G., NEUFELD D.A., PATTEN B.M., SCHIEDER R., SNELL R.L., STAUFFER J.R., TOLLS V., WANG Z., WINNEWISSER G., ZHANG Y.F., REYNOLDS K., JOYCE R., TAVOLETTI C., JACK G., RODKEY C.J. and MELNICK G.J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present maps of the 13CO J=5⟶4 (551 GHz) and [C I] 3P13P0 (492 GHz) emission in the Orion A molecular cloud, covering a 0°.5x2° area. A large velocity gradient (LVG) analysis of 13CO J=5⟶4 and J=1⟶0 suggests that the gas temperatures in the northern part of OMC-1 (north of Δδ=-20') are ∼45 K and are, on average, at least 20 K higher than those to the south. The average 13CO column density is log(N/cm–2)=16.4±0.3 and is fairly constant throughout the cloud, even in the low-temperature region south of BN/KL. LVG modeling of the [C I] emission shows a typical C0 column density of 2x1017 cm–2, which yields a C/CO abundance ratio in the cloud of ∼0.1 (rising to levels in excess of 0.5 at the cloud edges). Comparison of the Δ-variance (which measures spatial structure in a manner similar to a power spectrum) of the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite [C I], Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 13CO J=1⟶0, and CS J=1⟶0 velocity-integrated maps suggests that the [C I] and 13CO emission arise from the same gas. In contrast, the CS emission likely originates in gas that is considerably more clumpy.

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Journal keyword(s): ISM: Abundances - ISM: Clouds - ISM: Individual: Name: Orion - ISM: Molecules - Stars: Formation

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