A&A 402, L39-L46 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030337
Å. Hjalmarson1 -
U. Frisk2 -
M. Olberg1 -
P. Bergman1 -
P. Bernath3 -
N. Biver4,7 -
J. H. Black1 -
R. S. Booth1 -
V. Buat5 -
J. Crovisier7 -
C. L. Curry3 -
M. Dahlgren1 -
P. J. Encrenaz6 -
E. Falgarone8 -
P. A. Feldman9 -
M. Fich3 -
H. G. Florén10 -
M. Fredrixon1 -
M. Gerin8 -
E. M. Gregersen11 -
M. Hagström1 -
J. Harju12 -
T. Hasegawa13 -
C. Horellou1 -
L. E. B. Johansson1 -
E. Kyrölä14 -
S. Kwok13 -
B. Larsson10 -
A. Lecacheux7 -
T. Liljeström15 -
M. Lindqvist1 -
R. Liseau10 -
E. J. Llewellyn16 -
K. Mattila12 -
G. Mégie17 -
G. F. Mitchell18 -
D. Murtagh19 -
L.-Å. Nyman20 -
H. L. Nordh21 -
A. O. H. Olofsson1 -
G. Olofsson10 -
H. Olofsson10 -
L. Pagani6 -
G. Persson1 -
R. Plume13 -
H. Rickman22 -
I. Ristorcelli23 -
G. Rydbeck1 -
Aa. Sandqvist10 -
F. von Schéele2 -
G. Serra23,
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S. Torchinsky24 -
N. F. Tothill18 -
K. Volk13 -
T. Wiklind1 -
C. D. Wilson11 -
A. Winnberg1 -
G. Witt25
1 - Onsala Space Observatory, 439 92 Onsala, Sweden
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Swedish Space Corporation, PO Box 4207, 171 04 Solna, Sweden
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Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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ESA-ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, BP 8, 13376 Marseille
Cedex 12, France
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LERMA & FRE 2460 du CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 61 Av. de l'Observatoire,
75140 Paris, France
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LESIA & FRE 2461 de CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 5 place Jules
Janssen, 92195 Meudon Cedex, France
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LERMA & FRE 2460 du CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, 24
rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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NRC Canada, Herzberg Inst. of Astrophysics, 5071 West Saanich Road,
Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada
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Stockholm Observatory, SCFAB, Roslagstullsbacken 21, 106 91
Stockholm, Sweden
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada
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Observatory, PO Box 14, University of Helsinki, 00014
Helsinki, Finland
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,
Calgary, ABT 2N 1N4, Canada
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Finnish Meteorological Institute, PO Box 503, 00101 Helsinki,
Finland
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Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Helsinki University of
Technology, Otakaari 5A, 02150 Espoo, Finland
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Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, 116 Science Place,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada
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Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS-Université Paris 6,
4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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Department of Astronomy and Physics, Saint Mary's
University, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
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Global Environmental Measurements Group, Chalmers University of
Technology, 412 96 Göteborg, Sweden
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ESO, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile
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Swedish National Space Board, PO Box 4006, 171 04 Solna, Sweden
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Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Box 515, 751 20 Uppsala,
Sweden
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CESR, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, BP 4346, 31029 Toulouse,
France
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Canadian Space Agency, St-Hubert, J3Y 8Y9, Québec, Canada
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Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm,
Sweden
Received 3 December 2002 / Accepted 28 January 2003
Abstract
Key Odin operational and instrumental features and
highlights from our sub-millimetre and millimetre wave observations of H2O, H218O, NH3, 15NH3 and O2are presented, with some insights into accompanying Odin Letters in
this A&A issue. We focus on new results where Odin's
high angular resolution, high frequency resolution, large
spectrometer bandwidths, high sensitivity or/and frequency tuning
capability are crucial: H2O mapping of the Orion KL, W 3, DR 21,
S 140 regions, and four comets; H2O observations of Galactic
Centre sources, of shock enhanced H2O towards the SNR IC 443, and
of the candidate infall source IRAS 16293-2422; H218O detections
in Orion KL and in comet Ikeya-Zhang; sub-mm detections of NH3 in
Orion KL (outflow, ambient cloud and bar) and Oph, and very recently, of 15NH3 in Orion KL. Simultaneous sensitive searches for the 119 GHz line of O2 have resulted in very low abundance limits, which are difficult
to accomodate in chemical models. We also demonstrate, by means of a
quantitative comparison of Orion KL H2O results, that the Odin and
SWAS observational data sets are very consistently calibrated.
Key words: radio lines: ISM - ISM: molecules - space vehicles: instruments - submillimeter - techniques: spectroscopic - telescopes
With the recognition that ion-molecule reactions play a major role in interstellar chemistry (Herbst & Klemperer 1973; Watson 1973; Dalgarno & Black 1976) it was proposed that H2O and O2, together with CO, O and C, must be important coolants of interstellar clouds, governing the cloud evolution towards formation of protostellar cores (Goldsmith & Langer 1978). This was still the current understanding at the time of the Odin (and SWAS, see below) feasibility and Phase A studies more than ten years ago (cf. Hjalmarson 1997). However, during the extended instrument planning phase, compelling evidence appeared from ground-based searches for O18O (Maréchal et al. 1997, and references therein) that the O2 abundance must be considerably lower than theoretically expected. To address this O2 search sensitivity problem, a low-noise HEMT preamplifier at 119 GHz was added to the already rather complicated, cryo-cooled sub-millimetre radiometer system (Frisk et al. 2003, in this issue). The Odin O2 search sensitivity in this way was improved by more than an order of magnitude.
NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) was launched in
December 1998, and since then has performed extensive, simultaneous
observations of the ortho-H2O (
110-101), 13CO (5-4) and CI (3P1-3P0) lines, using an off-axis Cassegrain
telescope of size
cm (Melnick et al. 2000a, and
subsequent papers in that ApJ issue). The observed H2O abundances
in quiescent dense interstellar clouds are estimated to be at least an
order of magnitude lower than expected from pure gas-phase chemistry,
most likely because of efficient molecular adsorption onto dust grain
surfaces (e.g., Bergin et al. 2000). A large interstellar water
abundance in terms of icy grain mantles has indeed been discovered by
ESA's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO, cf. van Dishoeck & Blake 1998;
Ehrenfreud & Charnley 2000). Simultaneous deep SWAS searches for the O2 (33-12) transition at 487 GHz have led to low abundance limits
in a number of sources (Goldsmith et al. 2000), and recently also a
very tentative O2 detection in
Oph, presumably in an
outflow wing (Goldsmith et al. 2002). The low O2 abundance limits
pose serious problems to chemistry models (e.g., Bergin et al. 2000).
On 20 February 2001, the Odin sub-millimetre wave spectroscopy satellite for astronomy and aeronomy research, equipped with an offset Gregorian telescope of diameter 110 cm, was launched by a Start-1 rocket from Svobodny in far-eastern Russia (Nordh et al. 2003, in this issue; von Schéele 2002). In this Letter we report some highlights from the first year of Odin observations and set the scene for a number of accompanying A&A Letters. We will here refrain from referring to the wealth of relevant recent papers on interstellar chemistry and cloud cooling and instead refer the reader to our accompanying Odin A&A Letters, and to Bergin et al. (2000), and other SWAS papers in that ApJ issue.
In Sect. 2 we summarise the Odin operation and data processing, available receiver and spectral line combinations, observation modes, and pointing and antenna characteristics. Section 3 contains a presentation and discussion of some early Odin highlights, with references to accompanying Odin A&A Letters and to some planned, subsequent papers.
The satellite operation is described in a recent paper by Lundin (2002): "Finding the balance between autonomy on-board versus man-triggered actions from ground''. The scheduling time-lines of astronomical targets/receiver combinations - based on priorities agreed upon in the Odin astronomy team - are created by the Astronomy Mission Scientist, Å. Hjalmarson, and Aa. Sandqvist (Stockholm Observatory), using scheduling software developed by K. Volk (University of Calgary) and detailed command software developed and implemented by H.-G. Florén (Stockholm Observatory). The pipeline millimetre and sub-millimetre wave data processing and calibration are performed at the Odin Data Centre at Onsala Space Observatory. These processes as well as the data flow and storage, are described by Olberg et al. (2003), in this issue.
Table 1 summarises the salient features of what is presented in more detail by Frisk et al. (2003) and Olberg et al. (2003), both in this issue. Odin accommodates two pairs of frequency tuneable, SSB (single sideband) tuned, sub-millimetre wave Schottky mixer receivers, together with a fixed-tuned HEMT receiver at 119 GHz, also operated in its SSB mode. Any four, three, or two (depending upon the satellite power available) of these front-end receivers can be combined with any of our three spectrometers: a broad band (1.1 GHz) acousto-optical spectrometer (AOS), and two flexible (bandwidth: 100-800 MHz; channel spacing: 0.125-1 MHz) hybrid auto-correlators (AC1 and AC2).
Table 1: Salient features of Odin.
In Table 2 we have collected some relevant parameters for important molecules, the lower energy lines of which appear in the Odin receiver bands.
Table 2: Some low energy spectral lines observable by Odin.
The tuning capability and easy selection of receiver combinations has allowed us to perform simultaneous observations of H2O (at 557 GHz), or H218O (at 548 GHz) with two different mixers - i.e., to observe the same line with two different velocity resolutions and to increase the sensitivity - together with a deep search for O2 at 119 GHz. In other observations we have selected H2O (or H218O), and NH3(at 572 GHz), together with O2 at 119 GHz.
The Odin receiver set-up (Frisk et al. 2003), together with the
design of the Attitude Control System (ACS, Jacobsson et al.
2002a,b) allows two complementary observation
schemes: sky-switching and position-switching. By
sky-switching we mean Dicke-switching via a mirror alternating
between the telescope signal and one of two (selectable) sky beams of
size 4.4,
separated from each other by 28
and offset
by 42
from the main telescope beam, always allowing a
reference measurement toward cold, signal-free sky. Sky-switching
allows the aforementioned full flexibility of receiver
combinations. However, the intrinsic asymmetry of this switching mode
leads to a power level offset and a stable low-level ripple and
standing wave pattern, which must be removed by subtraction of a
reference off-source spectrum. The necessity of spending time to get
such an off-source spectrum means that this observation mode is most
efficient in mapping programs.
The alternative Odin switching method is true position-switching,
where the entire satellite, as rapidly as possible, is used to nod the
telescope beam between the target position and a selected signal-free
off position. Position-switching was considered as an important option
during the design of the Odin ACS (Jacobsson et al. 2002a,b). Therefore the satellite motion is
sufficiently rapid that the in-orbit measured on-source observing
efficiency is as high as 40% for off-positions closer than 1from the targets. The position-switching mode has been used in
observations where very broad lines are expected, e.g., in
observations of H2O towards Galactic Centre targets and in
extragalactic H2O searches. The baseline structure achieved is very
smooth across a 1.1 GHz band and the remaining ripple and standing
wave pattern is very low, often invisible, in this symmetric
switching, even after very long integrations (cf. Sandqvist et al.
2003, in this issue). Therefore the
position-switching mode has also been used in our first searches for
new spectral lines/molecules - simultaneous searches in the Orion KL
region for PH (at 553.4 GHz) and for 15NH3 (at 572.1 GHz). The only drawback in using position-switching is a loss
of flexibility in our choice of receiver combinations, as we can then
simultaneously use only one pair of sub-mm mixers, or the other pair
of sub-mm mixers together with the 119 GHz receiver (cf. Table 1 of
Olberg et al. 2003).
Odin is equipped with an offset Gregorian telescope of diameter 110 cm. The RMS surface accuracy of the main mirror is <m, i.e. <
at 557 GHz, and the system is (for aeronomy reasons)
designed to have a side-lobe level well below -25 dB. From Jupiter
mapping at 557 GHz we estimate a FWHP beam size of 126
(2.1
)
and a
main beam efficiency of about
%. The corresponding
theoretically calculated values are 125
and 88% at 557 GHz, and 9.5
and 92% at 119 GHz, respectively (for further details, see
Frisk et al. 2003).
The Odin attitude control system and attitude reconstruction capability are described in two recent papers by Jacobsson et al.: "The high-performing attitude control system of the scientific satellite Odin'' (2002a), and "Star tracker/gyro calibration and attitude reconstruction for the scientific satellite Odin - in flight results'' (2002b). The astronomical targets used to observationally delineate the pointing stability are Jupiter, the strong H2O emission from several comets (Lecacheux et al. 2003, in this issue), and the equally strong Orion KL H2O outflow emission (Olofsson et al. 2003, in this issue). Frisk et al. (2003) show that Odin's long-term pointing repeatability and the short-term attitude reconstruction accuracy are very good, and at least within <10'' (RMS). Up to 05 October 2002, all Odin observations were performed with a known antenna beam offset of about 30'' (counted from the expected beam location in the star-tracker reference coordinate system). For Odin's beam size of 126'' such a pointing offset would cause an intensity decrease of at most 15% (for a point source). Our correction attempt, implemented on 05 October 2002, has reduced the current pointing offset to be below 10''.
We here present some highlights from the first year of Odin observations, where Odin's higher angular resolution, higher frequency resolution, larger spectrometer bandwidths, higher sensitivity or/and frequency tuning capability (compared to SWAS, cf. Hjalmarson 2003) are crucial.
Figure 1 shows a number of Odin ortho-H2O (
110-101) spectra at 557 GHz - observed in the
sky-switching mode and using the broad band (BW = 1.1 GHz), lower
resolution (1 MHz) AOS spectrometer. We have in the different panels also
indicated simultaneously used auto-correlation spectrometer bandwidths
(allowing higher velocity resolution). The observational results are
discussed below.
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Figure 1:
Sample Odin broad band (1.1 GHz) AOS observations of H2O in
molecular clouds and comets. a) Orion KL high velocity H2O outflow/shock spectrum. b) Narrow H2O line in the
quiescent cloud
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Figure 1a displays the high velocity H2O outflow/shock
emission from the Orion KL molecular cloud core, where the water
abundance appears to be as high as
and essentially
all oxygen is locked-up in gas phase H2O (ISO: Harwit et al. 1998;
Wright et al. 2000; SWAS: Melnick et al. 2000b; Odin mapping:
Olofsson et al. 2003, in this issue). Figure 1b
shows the narrow H2O line observed
south of the
outflow centre, where the water abundance is estimated to be several
orders of magnitude lower. In an accompanying A&A Letter,
Olofsson et al. present the first results from our Odin
H2O mapping at
spacing of the Orion KL molecular cloud
core, together with Odin's detections of H218O at 548 GHz at
the cloud centre (outflow and quiescent gas) and from quiescent
gas
south of the outflow. The mapping was performed
simultaneously in two mixers, one connected to the broad band AOS and
the other to a higher velocity resolution auto-correlation
spectrometer. Our Orion KL H2O and H218O outflow/shock
emission spectra will be discussed further in Sect. 3.5.
Odin has observed H2O (
110-101) emission in a considerable
number of interstellar clouds and is mapping the emission in some
selected regions. Our mapping of the W3 molecular cloud at
spacing is presented in this A&A issue by Wilson
et al. (2003), and an illuminating Odin/SWAS comparison of the H2O emission towards W 3 (IRS 5) is provided in
Sect. 3.6. Our DR 21 H2O mapping (of a
area, using
spacing),
together with the results of a recent simultaneous search for H218O and NH3 (10-00), will be presented in a future
paper. Another highlight may well be the detection of very narrow (4 km s-1) and twice as strong H2O emission towards the
S 140 bright rim (PDR), and also at a somewhat different velocity
(all compared to the SWAS spectrum, of width 5.7 km s-1,
observed at the cloud core 1
away; Snell et al. 2000). The result of the Odin S 140 strip maps at 1
spacing across this favourably located PDR will appear
in a future paper.
Figure 1c displays the strong, very narrow (in the broad
band AOS) H2O line at 557 GHz observed from comet C/2001 A2
(LINEAR). Odin has observed and mapped the water production in
several comets at high spectral resolution (80 m s-1), as
discussed by Lecacheux et al. (2003, in this issue). In
the most recent bright comet, 153P/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), weak H218O (
110-101) emission was also detected (at an
intensity level about 90 times lower than that of H2O). The H2O/
H218O integrated intensity ratio is consistent with an isotope
ratio
and verifies the estimated very
high H2O production rate,
molecules s-1,
where we rely on a rather elaborate excitation/radiative transfer
model (see Lecacheux et al. 2003). The comet observations were performed
in the Odin sky-switching mode. Two mixers were tuned to H2O, or H218O, both connected to high-resolution auto-correlation
spectrometers (their selected bandwidth, 100 MHz, is indicated in
Fig. 1e), and one of them also to the AOS.
Figure 1d shows the intricate mixture of H2O emission and absorption observed by Odin in the direction of the Galactic Centre, Sgr A*. Interestingly, a very similar spectral shape has been observed in the HCO+ (J=1-0) line (Linke et al. 1981). This Odin result, and even more intriguing data from nearby positions, where the sub-millimetre wave continuum is stronger, is discussed in an accompanying A&A Letter by Sandqvist et al. (2003). These beautiful Sgr A results, paired with the very flat broad-band baselines resulting from Odin's position switching observations, have encouraged us to begin deep searches for H2O emission in some nearby starburst galaxies, where shock enhanced H2O emission could result from a large number of outflows caused by extensive star formation.
Figure 1e shows the result of the
IC 443 supernova shock impinging upon the nearby molecular cloud
region (e.g., White et al. 1987; Ziurys et al. 1989), in terms of H2O shock chemistry and shock excitation. The Odin H2O signal is
about a factor of 2 stronger than the corresponding SWAS line, which
indicates an Odin/SWAS beam filling ratio of this amount and a source
size similar to the Odin
beam (if we assume a Gaussian
brightness distribution, see Sect. 3.4). An analysis of
Odin's observations of shock enhanced H2O emission will appear future
paper.
Simultaneously with observations of H2O, or H218O, and
searches for O2, we also tuned one of our receivers to the ortho-NH3 (10-00) line at 572 GHz. Early results from these
observations are i) the detection of quiescent cloud as well as
outflow NH3 (10-00) emission in the Orion KL cloud core, quiescent
cloud emission
south, and the first detection of NH3 emission from the Orion Bar (Larsson et al. 2003, in this
issue), and ii) the first detection of the NH3 (10-00) line in
a dark cloud (Liseau et al. 2003, in this issue). In view of these
Odin NH3 results, we have used the above mentioned receiver
combinations more often in recent observations. Since the H2O (
110-101) and NH3 (10-00) transitions have similar
excitation requirements (cf. Table 2), while the two molecules have rather different chemical behaviour, this approach
could also provide new constraints for our interpretation of the H2O and NH3 data.
Very recently we have taken the first steps in the spectral scan / molecular search area, made possible by Odin's tuneable sub-millimetre receivers. We have carried out simultaneous searches in the Orion KL region for PH (at 553.4 GHz) and for the 10-00 transition of 15NH3 (at 572.1 GHz). A preliminary reduction of the data set appears to show a detection of the 15NH3 (10-00) transition. This result will be important for our NH3 radiative transfer modelling, and ultimately also for our H2O ( 110-101) analysis.
Simultaneously with our sub-millimetre wave observations of H2O,
H218O, and NH3, we have been searching for molecular oxygen,
normally using the dedicated 119 GHz O2 (11-10) HEMT
preamplifier channel, but in the case of the Galactic Centre sources
also using the O2 (33-12) transition at 487 GHz. In spite of
some frustrating phase-locking problems, Odin's sensitive 119 GHz
searches have led to very low
O2 abundance limits,
especially in cold dark clouds, as reported in this A&A issue by
Pagani et al. (2003). Odin here has improved upon the SWAS upper
limits (Goldsmith et al. 2000) by factors of 20 and 40 in L 134 N and TMC-1, and by factors of a few in some star forming
regions. Such low O2 abundance limits are very difficult to
accommodate in current chemical models (cf. Pagani et al. 2003;
Goldsmith et al. 2002).
The physical and chemical conditions in the Orion KL core region are
discussed by Olofsson et al. (2003), who provide a number of
relevant references. The H2O spectrum observed by Odin's
beam towards Orion KL is displayed in
Fig. 2. No appreciable (narrow) ambient cloud
emission, nor semi-narrow "hot core'' emission, is apparent in this
spectrum (for details see Olofsson et al.). The H2O emission predominantly emanates in the well-known outflow/shock region,
and the emission from the "blueshifted'' (with respect to the ambient
cloud, "ridge'', velocity of 8-10 km s-1) part of the flow is
considerably weaker than the "redshifted'' part. The abrupt H2O brightness decrease at velocities blueward of about 10 km s-1is not an Odin instrument artifact, since this surprising feature is
verified in our independently observed AOS spectrum (Fig. 1a).
Absorption by low excitation H2O foreground gas (in the molecular cloud envelope) at
ambient cloud velocities can affect the line shape. In addition, self-absorption
in the optically thick blueward outflow is a possibility. In fact, this effect
has been observed by Odin in expanding cometary H2O comae (Lecacheux et al.
2003).
Narrow, deep self-absorption features are indeed very common in molecular
cloud H2O (
110-101) spectra observed by SWAS (e.g. Ashby et al. 2000) and Odin (see Sects. 3.6 and 3.7), but
are not apparent in our Orion ambient cloud spectra.
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Figure 2:
H2O spectra from the Orion KL core region
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In Fig. 2 we also show the corresponding SWAS water
spectrum (from Melnick et al. 2000b),
observed with a beam size of
.
The
SWAS spectrum here has been scaled by a factor of 2.4 to match the
outflow line-wings observed by Odin.
The very good match of the H2O line-wings as observed
by the two telescopes (after scaling the SWAS spectrum by a factor 2.4) can be used to roughly estimate the size of the
outflow/shock region. If we assume that the distribution has a
Gaussian shape, the Odin/SWAS beam filling ratio R can be expressed
as
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Figure 3: Spectrum (black) resulting from convolution of Odin's Orion KL H2O map (Fig. 1 of Olofsson et al. 2003) to the SWAS resolution, compared with the corresponding SWAS spectrum (red). |
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The H218O spectrum observed by Odin towards Orion KL is
displayed in Fig. 4, along with the corresponding
SWAS spectrum (Melnick et al. 2000b). The
SWAS H218O spectrum here has been scaled by a factor 3.3 to
match the red wing of the Odin spectrum. This value is close to the
theoretical beam filling ratio for a very small source,
3.37. Using Eq. (1) we estimate that the size of the red H218O outflow (moving away from us) must be
.
We also should point out that the SO2 (
286,22-285,23) line visible near -65 km s-1 also
scales by a factor of
3.3, indicating a similarly small
source, which is expected for this high energy line (
K).
As in the case of H2O the blueward (counted from
)
H218O outflow emission is weaker than the redward
one.
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Figure 4: H218O spectra from the Orion KL core region, observed by Odin (black) and SWAS (red; scaled by a factor 3.3). |
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In Fig. 5 the Odin 557 GHz H2O spectrum observed
towards W 3 (IRS 5) is compared with the corresponding SWAS spectrum
(unpublished data provided by Melnick et al.). Both spectra are
double peaked, similarly to CO (3-2) and (6-5) spectra, and almost
lack emission around -38 km s-1, which is the cloud core
velocity as observed in the C18O (2-1), 13CO (6-5) and C34S (5-4) lines (Hasegawa et al. 1994; Tieftrunk et al. 1995). Hence the double peaked H2O spectrum can be attributed
to strong self-absorption. While the peak intensity of the Odin
spectrum is about twice as strong as that from SWAS, according to
Eq. (1) indicating a Gaussian FWHP size of the emission
region of about
,
it is also evident that the
"blueshifted'' peak of the Odin spectrum is considerably weaker than
the "redshifted'' one, which is opposite to the situation in the SWAS spectrum. The reason for this difference was clear immediately after
our Odin observations, since we had also included in the observations
a
point reference map at
spacing, centred on W 3 (IRS 5). In the
west position, near W 3 (IRS 4),
the Odin H2O signal was in fact considerably stronger than at the
map centre. While centred on W 3 (IRS 5), the larger SWAS beam
is picking up H2O emission from W 3 (IRS 4) as well. Since we
here really could benefit from the smaller Odin
beam, a
mapping of the W3 region at
spacing rapidly was
scheduled. The results are presented in an accompanying
Letter by Wilson et al. (2003).
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Figure 5:
H2O spectra towards W3 IRS5
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Figure 6: H2O spectra observed by SWAS (upper panel) and Odin (middle panel) towards IRAS 16293-2422 and an ALI model spectrum (bottom panel, see text). |
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Figure 6 shows the H2O spectrum observed by Odin centred on the the very nearby (160 pc), deeply embedded young stellar object IRAS 16293-2422. This IRAS source is a prominent outflow source (e.g. Walker et al. 1988; Castets et al. 2001; Lis et al. 2002). The self-reversal appearance of the spectral lines have been modelled by infall models (cf. Schöier et al. 2002). The H2O spectrum, with its charateristic absorption dip, shows a similar asymmetry as the HCO+(3-2) spectrum observed by Lis et al. (2002) toward the E1 peak about 50''east of the IRAS source. The HCO+(3-2) spectrum toward the IRAS source of Lis et al. (2002) shows the opposite asymmetry, i.e. the blue-shifted side is the strongest.
For comparison we also show, in Fig. 6, the SWAS H2O spectrum toward IRAS 16293-2422 which has a very similar shape but is about a factor of 2 weaker. This would be expected if the source size is similar to our 2.1' beam.
In Fig. 6 we have also included a model H2O spectrum as would
be observed by a 2.1' antenna beam. This model spectrum is based on the
infall model parameters of Schöier et al. (2002). The radiative
transfer was solved by means of accelerated lambda iteration (ALI, e.g. Rybicki
& Hummer 1991). We found that the infall source alone could not explain
the deep and rather narrow absorption. In order to model the absorption dip we
had to include a halo with properties very close to those determined in the
parental cloud by the ammonia observations of Menten et al. (1987). By
including a 15
halo having an H2 density of
,
a kinetic temperature of 11 K, a turbulent velocity width of
,
we obtained the spectrum shown in Fig. 6. The ortho-H2O abundance throughout the entire cloud was set to
.
Apparently, the observed H2O spectrum is dominated by emission
from the outflow and there are no obvious indications of infall. In fact, a
central model source with a static velocity field combined with the halo works
equally well (although the core ortho-H2O abundance could be a
magnitude higher because of more effective trapping).
It is worth stressing again that the observed H2O spectrum resembles the HCO+(3-2) spectrum toward the E1 peak, which is suggested to be an interaction region of the outflow and the dense ambient gas (Lis et al. 2002).
Acknowledgements
Generous financial support by Research Councils and Space Agencies in Canada, Finland, France, and Sweden is gratefully acknowledged. We also want to express our gratitude to the crews at the SSC Odin operations centres in Kiruna and Solna for their skilful and dedicated work. The friendly attitude of Gary Melnick and the SWAS team, who upon our request supplied us with carefully reduced data for a number of targets, is greatly appreciated.