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Table 12

Critical density, and percentage of total flux originating from gas in filaments and dense cores for each line.

Species Transition n crit
cm-3 % of Ftot % of Ftot

1−0 2 × 103 38 7.6
1−0 2 × 103 45 15
HCO+ 1−0 2 × 105 40 16
C2H 1−0 1 × 105 37 17
c - C3H2 2−1 1 × 106 38 17
HCN 1−0 3 × 106 44 18
12CN 1−0 3 × 105 45 19
C17O 1−0 2 × 103 43 26
HNC 1−0 4 × 105 41 27
C18O 1−0 2 × 103 48 29
2−1 2 × 105 44 31
2−1 2 × 105 42 32
CH3OH 2−1 3 × 104 41 48
H13CO+ 1−0 2 × 105 34 56
N2H+ 1−0 2 × 105 17 88

Notes. The lines are sorted by increasing value of (last column). The typical volume density of the regions with , and are 1500, and 7300 H2 cm-3, respectively.

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