Revealing the CO X-factor in Dark Molecular Gas through Sensitive ALMA Absorption Observations
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| 作者 | Luo,Gan6,7; Li,Di6,7,8 ; Tang,Ningyu6; Dawson,J. R.9; Dickey,John M.10; Bronfman,L.11; Qin,Sheng-Li12; Gibson,Steven J.1; Plambeck,Richard2; Finger,Ricardo11
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| 刊名 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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| 出版日期 | 2020-01-17 |
| 卷号 | 889期号:1 |
| ISSN号 | 2041-8205 |
| 关键词 | Interstellar medium Interstellar absorption Interstellar molecules |
| DOI | 10.3847/2041-8213/ab6337 |
| 英文摘要 | Abstract Carbon-bearing molecules, particularly CO, have been widely used as tracers of molecular gas in the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we aim to study the properties of molecules in diffuse, cold environments, where CO tends to be underabundant and/or subthermally excited. We performed one of the most sensitive (down to and ) submillimeter molecular absorption line observations toward 13 continuum sources with the ALMA. CO absorption was detected in diffuse ISM down to and HCO+ was detected down to , where atomic gas and dark molecular gas start to dominate. Multiple transitions measured in absorption toward 3C454.3 allow for a direct determination of excitation temperatures Tex of 4.1 and 2.7 K, for CO and for HCO+, respectively, which are close to the cosmic microwave background and explain their being undercounted in emission surveys. A stronger linear correlation was found between and (Pearson correlation coefficient P ～ 0.93) than that of NCO and (P ～ 0.33), suggesting HCO+ is a better tracer of H2 than CO in diffuse gas. The derived CO-to-H2?conversion factor (the CO X-factor) of (14 ± 3)?×?1020 cm?2 (K )?1 is approximately six times larger than the average value found in the Milky Way. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 出版者 | The American Astronomical Society |
| WOS记录号 | IOP:2041-8205-889-1-AB6337 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/28530]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院国家天文台 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Western Kentucky University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 1906 College Heights Boulevard, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA 2.Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3.Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia 4.Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University Seoul 151–747, Republic of Korea 5.Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36, Santiago de Chile, Chile 6.CAS Key Laboratory of FAST, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People’s Republic of China luogan@nao.cas.cn, dili@nao.cas.cn, nytang@nao.cas.cn 7.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China 8.NAOC-UKZN Computational Astrophysics Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa 9.Department of Physics and Astronomy and MQ Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia 10.University of Tasmania, School of Maths and Physics, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Luo,Gan,Li,Di,Tang,Ningyu,et al. Revealing the CO X-factor in Dark Molecular Gas through Sensitive ALMA Absorption Observations[J]. The Astrophysical Journal Letters,2020,889(1). |
| APA | Luo,Gan.,Li,Di.,Tang,Ningyu.,Dawson,J. R..,Dickey,John M..,...&Lo,Nadia.(2020).Revealing the CO X-factor in Dark Molecular Gas through Sensitive ALMA Absorption Observations.The Astrophysical Journal Letters,889(1). |
| MLA | Luo,Gan,et al."Revealing the CO X-factor in Dark Molecular Gas through Sensitive ALMA Absorption Observations".The Astrophysical Journal Letters 889.1(2020). |
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