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猎户座棒中温暖和稠密气体的PDKEEPAAA发射PDR

OH emission from warm and dense gas in the Orion Bar PDR

J. R. Goicoechea, C. Joblin, A. Contursi, O. Berne, J. Cernicharo, M. Gerin, J. Le Bourlot, E. A. Bergin, T. A. Bell, M. Rollig

摘要:

作为一个远红外(FIR)光谱扫描与赫歇尔/PACS的一部分,我们提出了第一次检测到的羟基自由基(OH)对猎户座酒吧光解区(PDR)。在~65、~79、~84、~119和~ 163 μ m处探测到了五个能级在E_u/k~511 K范围内的OH转动λ-二重态。OH谱线的总强度为I(OH)~ 5x 10 ^-4 erg s^-1 cm^-2 sr^-1。观察到的旋转激发OH谱线的发射得到了扩展,并与高J CO和CH^+ J=3-2谱线的发射有很好的相关性(但显然与水蒸气无关),指向一个共同的起源。非定域、非LTE辐射转移模型(包括周围远红外辐射场的激发)表明,OH产生于温暖(Tk~160-220 K)和稠密(n_H~10^{6-7} cm^-3)气体的小填充因子组分中,源平均OH柱密度为~10^15 cm^-2。高密度和温度光化学模型预测了低深度(A_V<1)和小空间尺度(~10^15 cm)下的这种增强OH柱,其中OH的形成是由原子氧与分子氢的气相吸热反应驱动的。我们解释的扩展OH排放来自未解决的结构暴露于远紫外线(FUV)辐射附近的酒吧边缘(光蒸发团块或细丝),而不是从低密度的“interclump”介质。光解导致OH/H2O丰度比(>1)远高于预期在同样温暖的地区没有增强FUV辐射场。

英文摘要:

As part of a far-infrared (FIR) spectral scan with Herschel/PACS, we present the first detection of the hydroxyl radical (OH) towards the Orion Bar photodissociation region (PDR). Five OH rotational Lambda-doublets involving energy levels out to E_u/k~511 K have been detected (at ~65, ~79, ~84, ~119 and ~163um). The total intensity of the OH lines is I(OH)~5x10^-4 erg s^-1 cm^-2 sr^-1. The observed emission of rotationally excited OH lines is extended and correlates well with the high-J CO and CH^+ J=3-2 line emission (but apparently not with water vapour), pointing towards a common origin. Nonlocal, non-LTE radiative transfer models including excitation by the ambient FIR radiation field suggest that OH arises in a small filling factor component of warm (Tk~160-220 K) and dense (n_H~10^{6-7} cm^-3) gas with source-averaged OH column densities of ~10^15 cm^-2. High density and temperature photochemical models predict such enhanced OH columns at low depths (A_V<1) and small spatial scales (~10^15 cm), where OH formation is driven by gas-phase endothermic reactions of atomic oxygen with molecular hydrogen. We interpret the extended OH emission as coming from unresolved structures exposed to far-ultraviolet (FUV) radiation near the Bar edge (photoevaporating clumps or filaments) and not from the lower density "interclump" medium. Photodissociation leads to OH/H2O abundance ratios (>1) much higher than those expected in equally warm regions without enhanced FUV radiation fields.

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