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Table 3

Properties of SiO-emission regions inferred from face-on C-type shock models used in combination with an LVG code, and from homogeneous slab-LVG models.

Medium Slab-LVG Shock-LVG
properties red lobe blue lobe ambient best model

Tkin (K) 100–500 100–500 n.c. 15–1745
nH2 (cm-3) ≥ 5 × 106 ≥ 5 × 106 ≥ 105 3.3 × 106–2.4 × 107
NSiO (cm-2) 5× 1013 1014 5 × 1013 2.4× 1014
LVG parameter 2.5 × 1012 5× 1012 2.5 × 1012 6.4 × 1011–5.0 × 1014

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