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Table 2

Observed median column densities (N) and the standard deviation (SD) for IRDCs, HMPOs, HMCs, and UCHii regions as a(x) = a × 10x.

IRDC HMPO HMC UCHii
N SD N SD N SD N SD
cm-2 cm-2 cm-2 cm-2 cm-2 cm-2 cm-2 cm-2

HCO+ 7.9(13) 6.8(13) 3.7(14) 1.7(14) 7.6(14) 4.3(14) 3.8(14) 5.9(14)
HCN 7.2(13) 5.7(13) 1.3(14) 1.7(14) 3.5(14) 3.4(15) 3.4(14) 3.7(14)
HNC 9.7(13) 8.4(13) 2.9(14) 1.6(14) 5.5(14) 3.5(14) 2.0(14) 7.7(14)
N2H+ 2.2(13) 1.5(13) 4.6(13) 3.2(13) 5.5(13) 4.6(13) 3.7(13) 6.4(13)
DCO+ 3.1(11) 1.1(12) 6.7(11) 6.5(11) 2.0(12) 7.6(12) 4.6(11) 3.4(11)
DCN 6.1(11) 7.3(11) 2.0(12) 2.2(12) 8.0(12) 3.6(13) 1.9(12) 6.0(12)
DNC 6.1(11) 9.2(11) 1.0(12) 1.2(12) 8.7(11) 7.1(11) 3.0(11) 1.9(12)
N2D+ 6.8(11) 4.3(11) 3.8(11) 4.0(11) 2.2(11) 6.6(10) 3.3(11) 4.6(10)

Notes. The median includes detections and upper limits of non-detections. Species detected in less than 50% of the sources are indicated by an upper limit.

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