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In Search of a Renaissance in Jewish Life
The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Lecture in Judaic Studies. A Lecture Presented by Edgar M. Bronfman, President of the World Jewish Congress.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1202/thumbnail.jp
Observations and chemical modeling of the isotopologues of formaldehyde and the cations of formyl and protonated formaldehyde in the hot molecular core G331.512-0.103
In the interstellar cold gas, the chemistry of formaldehyde (HCO) can be
essential to explain the formation of complex organic molecules. On this
matter, the massive and energetic protostellar object G331 is still unexplored
and, hence, we carried out a comprehensive study of the isotopologues of
HCO and formyl cation (HCO), and of protonated formaldehyde
(HCOH) through the APEX observations in the spectral window
159-356~GHz. We employed observational and theoretical methods to derive
the physical properties of the molecular gas combining LTE and non-LTE
analyses. Formaldehyde was characterized via 35 lines of HCO, HCO,
HDCO and HCO. The formyl cation was detected via 8 lines of HCO,
HCO, HCO and HCO. Deuterium was clearly
detected via HDCO, whereas DCO remained undetected. HCOH was
detected through 3 clean lines. According to the radiative analysis,
formaldehyde appears to be embedded in a bulk gas with a wide range of
temperatures (20-90 K), while HCO and HCOH are primarily
associated with a colder gas ( 30 K). The reaction HCO+HCO HCOH + CO is crucial for the balance of the three species.
We used Nautilus gas-grain code to predict the evolution of their molecular
abundances relative to H which values at time scales 10 yr
matched with the observations in G331: [HCO] = (0.2-2) 10,
[HCO] = (0.5-4) 10 and [HCOH] = (0.2-2)
10. Based on the molecular evolution of HCO, HCO and
HCOH, we hypothesized about the young lifetime of G331, which is
consistent with the active gas-grain chemistry of massive protostellar objects.Comment: 24 pages, 8 figures, 8 tables. Accepted for publication in The
Astrophysical Journa
Isocyanic acid (HNCO) in the Hot Molecular Core G331.512-0.103: Observations and Chemical Modelling
The authors thank the anonymous referee for the useful comments that improved the article. CMC acknowledges the support of CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e Tecnológico – Brazil, process number 41714/2016-6. This study was financed in part by the Coordenaçao de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de NÃıvel Su-
perior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001. LB acknowledges support from CONICYT (Comisión Nacional de Investigació CientÃfica y Tecnolóogica) project Basal AFB-170002. EM acknowledges sup-
port from the Brazilian agencies FAPESP (Fundaçao de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, grant 2014/22095-6) and CNPq
(grant 150465/2019-0). MC acknowledges the financial support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program
under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no 872081;
from the Spanish National Research, Development, and Innovation plan (RDI plan) under the project PID2019-104002GB-C21; the ConsejerÃa de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidad, Junta
de AndalucÃa and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF),
ref. SOMM17/6105/UGR; the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (ref. COOPB20364); and by the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en FÃsica, Matemáticas y Computación (CEAFMC) of
the University of Huelva