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A&A
Volume 521, October 2010
Herschel/HIFI: first science highlights
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Article Number | L44 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Letters | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015098 | |
Published online | 01 October 2010 |
Letter to the Editor
Herschel/HIFI detections of hydrides towards AFGL 2591*,**
Envelope emission versus tenuous cloud absorption
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Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: simonbr@astro.phys.ethz.ch
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Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
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Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Institut für 4D-Technologien, FHNW, 5210 Windisch, Switzerland
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Denison University, Granville, OH, 43023, USA
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SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
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LERMA and UMR 8112 du CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
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INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, 00040 Monte Porzio catone, Italy
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European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA, PO Box 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain
Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Université de Toulouse [UPS], 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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KOSMA, I. Physik. Institut, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany
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Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields ad Microwave Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (IGN), Calle Alfonso XII,3. 28014, Madrid, Spain
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Université de Bordeaux, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France; CNRS/INSU, UMR 5804, Floirac, France
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INAF - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Area di Ricerca di Tor Vergata, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
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Department of Astronomy, The University of Michigan, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042, USA
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Department of Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, 439 92 Onsala, Sweden
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California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, MS 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
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Centro de Astrobiología. Departamento de Astrofísica. CSIC-INTA. Carretera de Ajalvir, Km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz. 28850, Madrid, Spain.
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Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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University of Waterloo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Observatorio Astronómico Nacional, Apartado 112, 28803 Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, 5071 West Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 1A1, Canada
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Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen,
Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K., Denmark
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Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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California Institute of Technology, Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, MS 301-17, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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The University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7, Canada
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 42, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, T2N 1N4, AB, Canada
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Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica (IRAM), Avenida Divina Pastora 7, Núcleo Central, 18012 Granada, Spain
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CNRS/INSU, UMR 5187, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31028
Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Received:
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May
2010
Accepted:
20
July
2010
The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) onboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows the first observations of light diatomic molecules at high spectral resolution and in multiple transitions. Here, we report deep integrations using HIFI in different lines of hydrides towards the high-mass star forming region AFGL 2591. Detected are CH, CH+, NH, OH+, H2O+, while NH+ and SH+ have not been detected. All molecules except for CH and CH+ are seen in absorption with low excitation temperatures and at velocities different from the systemic velocity of the protostellar envelope. Surprisingly, the CH(JF,P = 3/22,- - 1/21,+ ) and CH+(J = 1–0, J = 2–1) lines are detected in emission at the systemic velocity. We can assign the absorption features to a foreground cloud and an outflow lobe, while the CH and CH+ emission stems from the envelope. The observed abundance and excitation of CH and CH+ can be explained in the scenario of FUV irradiated outflow walls, where a cavity etched out by the outflow allows protostellar FUV photons to irradiate and heat the envelope at larger distances driving the chemical reactions that produce these molecules.
Key words: ISM: molecules / stars: formation / astrochemistry / ISM: individual objects: AFGL 2591
Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.
Apppendices and Table 1 (pages 6 to 7) are only available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org
© ESO, 2010
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