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arXiv 2011.08349astro-ph.GAastro-ph.SR
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首次用平方公里阵列前兆望远镜寻找低频CH

First Search for Low-Frequency CH with a Square Kilometre Array Precursor Telescope

Chenoa D. Tremblay, James A. Green, Stacy L. Mader, Chris J. Phillips, Matthew Whiting

摘要:

双原子自由基次甲基(CH)是星际介质的重要示踪剂,对它的研究对我们最早了解恒星形成至关重要。虽然在电磁波谱中可以检测到它,但在射频上的观测允许对新恒星形成区域中弥漫和致密气体的运动学进行研究。只有两个已发表的(单碟)检测到700和725 MHz之间的低频超精细跃迁,尽管精确的频率是已知的。这些低频跃迁特别令人感兴趣,因为它们在实验室实验中显示出比它们的高频对应物(具有更明显的塞曼分裂)对磁场更敏感。在这项工作中,我们利用无线电安静的环境,并增加了分辨率的澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者(ASKAP)在以前的搜索,使试点干涉搜索CH在724.7883 MHz(最强的超精细过渡)在RCW 38。我们发现该波段没有射频干扰,但我们没有检测到从该跃迁到5 σ灵敏度极限0.09 Jy的信号,该极限对应于发射的总柱密度上限为1.9 × 10^18 cm ^-2,吸收的总柱密度上限为1.3 × 10^14 cm ^-2,光学深度极限为0.95。在积分5小时内实现,如果RCW 38具有与W51中先前报告的唯一检测结果相似的特性,则该色谱柱密度灵敏度应足以检测RCW 38中的发射或吸收。

英文摘要:

The diatomic free radical methylidyne (CH) is an important tracer of the interstellar medium and the study of it was critical to our earliest understanding of star formation. Although it is detectable across the electromagnetic spectrum, observations at radio frequencies allow for a study of the kinematics of the diffuse and dense gas in regions of new star formation. There are only two published (single-dish) detections of the low-frequency hyperfine transitions between 700 and 725 MHz, despite the precise frequencies being known. These low-frequency transitions are of particular interest as they are shown in laboratory experiments to be more sensitive to magnetic fields than their high-frequency counterparts (with more pronounced Zeeman splitting). In this work we take advantage of the radio quiet environment and increased resolution of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) over previous searches to make a pilot interferometric search for CH at 724.7883 MHz (the strongest of the hyperfine transitions) in RCW 38. We found the band is clean of radio frequency interference, but we did not detect the signal from this transition to a five sigma sensitivity limit of 0.09 Jy, which corresponds to a total column density upper limit of 1.9x10^18cm^-2 for emission and 1.3x10^14cm^-2 for absorption with an optical depth limit of 0.95. Achieved within 5 hrs of integration, this column density sensitivity should have been adequate to detect the emission or absorption in RCW 38, if it had similar properties to the only previous reported detections in W51.

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