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Table 1

Column densities and rotational temperatures of the observed molecules.

Molecule Trot Nmol Ref.
K cm-2

12CO 5.0 ± 0.3 (3.8 ± 0.3) × 1018 a
38.4 ± 6.5 (1.2 ± 0.3) × 1018 a
13CO 4.3 ± 0.2 (3.2 ± 0.3) × 1017 a
24.1 ± 6.3 (7.8 ± 2.8) × 1016 a
C18O 3.3 ± 0.1 (1.0 ± 0.1) × 1017 b
C2H 10.0 ± 5.0 (1.0 ± 0.5) × 1016
CN 8.8 ± 0.1 (5.0 ± 0.1) × 1015 d
51.4 ± 36.0 (5.8 ± 4.4) × 1015 d
CH3OH 5.6 ± 0.1 (2.3 ± 0.1) × 1015
HCN 5.0 ± 0.3 (1.4 ± 0.2) × 1015 e
CS 7.1 ± 0.4 (7.6 ± 2.2) × 1014 c
33.0 ± 13.1 (7.0 ± 4.2) × 1013 c
HC N 7.3 ± 1.4 (6.0 ± 4.0) × 1014
HCO+ 4.9 ± 0.1 (5.3 ± 0.2) × 1014 e
HNC 7.6 ± 0.2 (4.9 ± 0.5) × 1014 d
HCO 10.0 ± 5.0 (2.1 ± 1.3) × 1014
SO 22.8 ± 18.6 (3.2 ± 3.3) × 1014
NS 10.0 ± 5.0 (2.8 ± 1.4) × 1014
HNCO 29.7 ± 0.1 (2.8 ± 0.1) × 1014
CN 8.8 ± 0.1 (2.2 ± 0.1) × 1014
N H 10.0 ± 5.0 (1.1 ± 0.5) × 1014
C34S 3.6 ± 0.5 (1.6 ± 0.6) × 1014 b
H13CN 5.0 ± 0.3 (8.7 ± 0.5) × 1013
SiO 3.8 ± 0.2 (6.4 ± 0.8) × 1013 x
CH CN 10.2 ± 0.1 (3.9 ± 0.1) × 1013
H13CO+ 4.9 ± 0.1 (3.1 ± 0.1) × 1013
HN C 7.6 ± 0.2 (2.1 ± 3.2) × 1013
HOC+ 4.9 ± 0.1 (1.1 ± 0.6) × 1013

c − C3H2 7.6 (1.7 ± ...) × 1013 f
NH3 (1.1 ± 0.2) × 1014 g

Notes. Molecules in boldface are new detections in NGC 1068. The values given in this table are already corrected by beam dilution effects.

(†)

For those molecules with only one rotational transition available, we assumed Trot = 10 ± 5 K. See Sect. 2 for details.

References. Last column refers to detections taken from the literature: (a) Israel (2009); (b) Martín et al. (2009); (c) Bayet et al. (2009b); (d) Pérez-Beaupuits et al. (2009); (e) Krips et al. (2008); (x) Usero et al. (2004). c-C3H2 and NH3 were not detected in this survey, but were compiled from the literature; (f) Nakajima et al. (2011); and (g) Ao et al. (2011).

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