SgrB2(M) ^13^CCC and C^13^CC spectra Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Giesen T.F.
  2. Mookerjea B.
  3. Fuchs G.W.
  4. Breier A.A.
  5. Witsch D.
  6. Simon R.,Stutzki J.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Carbon molecules and their ^13^C-isotopologues can be used to determine the ^12^C/^13^C abundance ratios in stellar and interstellar objects. C3 is a pure carbon chain molecule found in star forming regions and in stellar shells of carbon-rich late-type stars. Latest laboratory data of ^13^C-isotopologues of C3 allow a selective search for the mono-substituted species ^13^CCC and C^13^CC based on accurate ro-vibrational frequencies. Our aim was to provide the first detection of the ^13^C-isotopologues ^13CCC and C^13^CC in space and to derive the ^12^C/ ^13^C ratio of interstellar gas in the massive star-forming region SgrB2(M) near the Galactic Center. We used the heterodyne receivers GREAT and upGREAT on board SOFIA to search for the ro-vibrational transitions Q(2) and Q(4) of ^13^CCC and C^13^CC at 1.9THz along the line of sight towards SgrB2(M). In addition, to determine the local excitation temperature we analyzed data from nine ro-vibrational transitions of the main isotopologue CCC in the frequency range between 1.6-1.9THz which were taken from the Herschel Science Data Archive. We report the first detection of the isotopologues ^13^CCC and C^13^CC. For both species the ro-vibrational absorption lines Q(2) and Q(4) have been identified, primarily arising from the warm gas physically associated with the strong continuum source SgrB2(M). From the available CCC ro-vibrational transitions we derived a gas excitation temperature of Tex=44.4^+4.7^_-3.9_K and a total column density of N(CCC)=3.88^+0.39^_-0.35_x10^15^cm^-2.. Assuming the excitation temperatures of C^13^CC and ^13^CCC to be the same as for CCC, we obtained column densities of the ^13^C-isotopologues of N(C^13^CC)=2.1^+0.9^_-0.6^_x10^14^cm^-2^ and N(^13^CCC)=2.4^+1.2^_-0.8_x10^14^cm^-2^. The derived ^12^C/^13^C abundance ratio in the C3 molecules is 20.5+/-4.2, which is in agreement with the elemental ratio of 20, typically observed in SgrB2(M). However, we find the N(^13^CCC)/N(C^13^CC) ratio to be 1.2+/-0.1, which is shifted from the statistically expected value of 2. We propose that the discrepant abundance ratio arises due to the the lower zero-point energy of C^13^CC which makes position- exchange reaction converting C^13^CC to C^13^CC energetically favorable.

Keywords
  1. Star forming regions
  2. Interstellar medium
  3. Spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020A&A...633A.120G
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2020-01-21T07:26:20Z
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