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arXiv 2007.12405astro-ph.GA
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星系外碳分馏的化学研究

A chemical study of carbon fractionation in external galaxies

Serena Viti, Francesco Fontani, Izaskun Jimenez-Serra

摘要:

在星际介质中,碳以两种稳定同位素$^{12}$ C和$^{13}$ C的形式存在,它们的比值是星系核合成的一个很好的指标。然而,化学分馏可能会显着改变这一比例,事实上,在同一个星系内观察到的碳分馏已被发现因物种而异。在本文中,我们从理论上研究碳分馏选择丰富的含碳物种,以确定的条件下,可能会导致传播的$^{12}$ C/ $^{13}$ C比在外部星系。我们发现,碳分馏是敏感的,几乎所有的物理条件,我们调查,它强烈随时间变化的所有物种,但CO,并显示出明显的物种间的差异。最后,我们讨论了我们的理论结果的背景下,在本地和高红移星系的$^{12}$ C/ $^{13}$ C比的少数观测。

英文摘要:

In the interstellar medium carbon exists in the form of two stable isotopes $^{12}$C and $^{13}$C and their ratio is a good indicator of nucleosynthesis in galaxies. However, chemical fractionation can potentially significantly alter this ratio and in fact observations of carbon fractionation within the same galaxy has been found to vary from species to species. In this paper we theoretically investigate the carbon fractionation for selected abundant carbon-bearing species in order to determine the conditions that may lead to a spread of the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratio in external galaxies. We find that carbon fractionation is sensitive to almost all the physical conditions we investigated, it strongly varies with time for all species but CO, and shows pronounced differences across species. Finally we discuss our theoretical results in the context of the few observations of the $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C ratio in both local and higher redshift galaxies.

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