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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/607/A118
- Title:
- Models for molecular transitions
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/607/A118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a method to interpret molecular observations and molecular line ratios in nearby extragalactic regions. Ab initio grids of time dependent chemical models, varying in gas density, temperature, cosmic ray ionization rate, and radiation field, are used as input to RADEX calculations. Tables of abundances, column densities, theoretical line intensities, and line ratios for some of the most used dense gas tracers are provided. The degree of correlation as well as degeneracy inherent in molecular ratios is discussed. Comparisons of the theoretical intensities with example observations are also provided. We find that, within the parameters space explored, chemical abundances can be constrained by a well defined set of gas density-gas temperature-cosmic ray ionization rate for the species we investigate here. However, line intensities, as well as, more importantly, line ratios, from different chemical models can be very similar leading to a clear degeneracy. We also find that the gas subjected to a galactic cosmic ray ionization rate will not necessarily have reached steady state by 1 million years. The species most affected by time dependency effects are HCN and CS, both high density tracers. We use our ab initio method to fit an example set of data from two galaxies (M82 and, NGC 253). We find that (i) molecular line ratios can be easily matched even with erroneous individual line intensities; (ii) no set of species can be matched by a one-component ISM; (iii) a species may be a good tracer of an energetic process but only under specific density and temperature conditions. We provide tables of chemical abundances and line intensities ratios for some of the most commonly observed extragalactic tracers of dense gas for a grid of models. We show that by taking into consideration the chemistry behind each species and the individual line intensities, many degeneracies that arise by just using molecular line ratios can be avoided. Finally we show that using a species or a ratio as a tracer of an individual energetic process (e.g. cosmic rays, UV) ought to be done with caution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/425/1696
- Title:
- Models of a young star cluster ejecta
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/425/1696
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have computed with a fine time grid the evolution of the elemental abundances of He, C, N and O ejected by young (t<20Myr) and massive (M=10^6^M_{sun}_) coeval stellar cluster with a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF) over a wide range of initial abundances. Our computations incorporate the mass loss from massive stars (M>=30M_{sun}_) during their wind phase including the Wolf-Rayet phase and the ejecta from the core-collapse supernovae. We find that during the Wolf-Rayet phase (t<5Myr) the cluster ejecta composition suddenly becomes vastly overabundant in N for all initial abundances and in He, C and O for initial abundances higher than one-fifth of the solar. The C and O abundances in the cluster ejecta can reach over 50 times the solar value with important consequences for the chemical and hydrodynamical evolution of the surrounding interstellar medium.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/119/111
- Title:
- Molecular abundances in dense interstellar clouds
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/119/111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present calculated fractional abundances in dense interstellar clouds for selected atomic and molecular species using three different homogeneous, pseudo-time-dependent models discussed by Bettens, Lee, & Herbst (1995): the new standard model, the new neutral-neutral model, and model 4. We have run each model with 3 different hydrogen densities - 1,000; 10,000; and 100,000cm-3 - and two temperatures - 10K and 50K. "Low metal" elemental abundances have been used for all three models; the new standard model has also been run with "high metal" abundances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/358/257
- Title:
- Molecular clouds SO and CS obs. II.
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/358/257
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We here analyse the observational SO and CS data presented in Nilsson et al. (2000A&AS..144..441N). The SO/CS integrated intensity ratio maps are presented for 19 molecular clouds, together with tables of relevant ratios at strategic positions, where w e have also observed ^34^SO and/or C^34^S.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/646/A97
- Title:
- Molecular emission from the Perseus cloud
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/646/A97
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The traditional technique to characterize the structure of molecular clouds is mapping their line emission. We aim to test and apply a sampling technique that can characterize the line emission from a molecular cloud more efficiently than mapping. We have sampled the molecular emission from the Perseus cloud using the H_2_ column density as a proxy. We have divided the cloud into 10 logarithmically- spaced column density bins, and we have selected 10 random positions from each bin. The resulting 100 cloud positions have been observed with the IRAM 30m telescope covering the 3mm-wavelength band and parts of the 2mm and 1mm bands. We focus our analysis on the eleven molecular species (plus isotopologs) detected toward most column density bins. In all cases, the line intensity is tightly correlated with the H_2_ column density. For the CO isotopologs, the correlation is relatively flat, while for most dense gas tracers, the correlation is approximately linear. To reproduce these trends, we have developed a cloud model in which most species have abundance profiles characterized by an outer photo-dissociation edge and an inner freeze-out drop. With this model we determine that the intensity behavior of the dense gas tracers arises from a combination of excitation effects and molecular freeze out, with some modulation from optical depth. The quasi-linear dependence of the dense-gas tracer emission with H_2_ column density makes the gas at low column densities dominate the cloud- integrated emission. It also makes this emission proportional to the cloud mass inside the photodissociation edge. Stratified random sampling is an efficient technique to characterize the emission from molecular clouds. Despite its complex appearance, the molecular emission from Perseus presents a relatively simple behavior that, from a limited comparison with other clouds, seems to reflect a general pattern.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/780/85
- Title:
- Molecular line study of infrared dark clouds
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/780/85
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- It is currently assumed that infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) represent the earliest evolutionary stages of high-mass stars (>8M_{sun}_). Submillimeter and millimeter-wave studies performed over the past 15yr show that IRDCs possess a broad variety of properties, and hence a wide range of problems and questions that can be tackled. In this paper, we report an investigation of the molecular composition and chemical processes in two groups of IRDCs. Using the Mopra, APEX, and IRAM radio telescopes over the last four years, we have collected molecular line data for CO, H_2_CO, HNCO, CH_3_CCH, CH_3_OH, CH_3_CHO, CH_3_OCHO, and CH_3_OCH_3_. For all of these species we estimated molecular abundances. We then undertook chemical modeling studies, concentrating on the source IRDC028.34+0.06, and compared observed and modeled abundances. This comparison showed that to reproduce observed abundances of complex organic molecules, a zero-dimensional gas-grain model with constant physical conditions is not sufficient. We achieved greater success with the use of a warm-up model, in which warm-up from 10K to 30K occurs following a cold phase.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/285/247
- Title:
- Molecules in O- and C-rich envelopes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/285/247
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Observations of 10 microwave transitions of the molecules SiO, HCN, HNC, SiS, HC_3_N, CS, SO, and ^13^CO are presented in a total sample of 47 evolved stars. The studied sources are mainly O- and C-rich standard AGB stars, as well as O-rich red supergiants, S-type stars, protoplanetary nebulae and detached envelopes. We also take into account observations of these transitions, as well as of ^12^CO J=1-0, from the literature. The observations were carried out during May and September 1991 and June 1992 with the IRAM 30-m radiotelescope at Pico de Veleta (Spain); the resolution is 1MHz for 3mm data (100GHz) and 2 MHz for 2 and 1mm data (150 to 300GHz).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/151/49
- Title:
- M6 open cluster: star members properties
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/151/49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present here the first abundance analysis of 44 late B-, A-, and F-type members of the young open cluster M6 (NGC 6405, age about 75 Myr). Low- and medium-resolution spectra, covering the 4500-5840 {AA} wavelength range, were obtained using the FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectrograph attached to the ESO Very Large Telescopes. We determined the atmospheric parameters using calibrations of the Geneva photometry and by adjusting the H_{beta}_ profiles to synthetic ones. The abundances of up to 20 chemical elements, from helium to mercury, were derived for 19 late B, 16 A, and 9 F stars by iteratively adjusting synthetic spectra to the observations. We also derived a mean cluster metallicity of [Fe/H]=0.07+/-0.03 dex from the iron abundances of the F-type stars. We find that for most chemical elements, the normal late B- and A-type stars exhibit larger star-to-star abundance variations than the F-type stars probably because of the faster rotation of the B and A stars. The abundances of C, O, Mg, Si, and Sc appear to be anticorrelated with that of Fe, while the opposite holds for the abundances of Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Ni, Y, and Ba as expected if radiative diffusion is efficient in the envelopes of these stars. In the course of this analysis, we discovered five new peculiar stars: one mild Am, one Am, and one Fm star (HD 318091, CD-32 13109, GSC 07380-01211, CP1), one HgMn star (HD 318126, CP3), and one He-weak P-rich (HD 318101, CP4) star. We also discovered a new spectroscopic binary, most likely a SB2. We performed a detailed modeling of HD 318101, the new He-weak P-rich CP star, using the Montreal stellar evolution code XEVOL which self-consistently treats all particle transport processes. Although the overall abundance pattern of this star is properly reproduced, we find that detailed abundances (in particular the high P excess) resisted modeling attempts even when a range of turbulence profiles and mass-loss rates were considered. Solutions are proposed which are still under investigation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/762/26
- Title:
- Most metal-poor stars. II. 190 Galactic halo stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/762/26
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a homogeneous chemical abundance analysis of 16 elements in 190 metal-poor Galactic halo stars (38 program and 152 literature objects). The sample includes 171 stars with [Fe/H]<=-2.5, of which 86 are extremely metal poor, [Fe/H]<=-3.0. Our program stars include 10 new objects with [Fe/H]<=-3.5. We identify a sample of "normal" metal-poor stars and measure the trends between [X/Fe] and [Fe/H], as well as the dispersion about the mean trend for this sample. Using this mean trend, we identify objects that are chemically peculiar relative to "normal" stars at the same metallicity. These chemically unusual stars include CEMP-no objects, one star with high [Si/Fe], another with high [Ba/Sr], and one with unusually low [X/Fe] for all elements heavier than Na. The Sr and Ba abundances indicate that there may be two nucleosynthetic processes at lowest metallicity that are distinct from the main r-process. Finally, for many elements, we find a significant trend between [X/Fe] versus T_eff_, which likely reflects non-LTE and/or three-dimensional effects. Such trends demonstrate that care must be exercised when using abundance measurements in metal-poor stars to constrain chemical evolution and/or nucleosynthesis predictions.
