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Table 8.

Molecular abundances with respect to H2 measured towards Cep-E A and a few protostars of low- (LM), intermediate- (IM) and high-mass (HM) reported from the literature.

Molecule X
LM IM HM
IRAS4A2a IRAS16293Bb IRAS2Aa Cep E-A NGC 7129c G29.96d Orion KLe SgrB2(N1)f
CH3OH 4.3 (−7) 1.7(−6) 1.0(−6) 1.2(−6)* 1.0(−6)* 6.7(−8) 9.3(−8) 1.4(−6)
H2CO 8.2 (−9) 1.6(−7) 8.0(−8) 8.8(−8)* 2.0(−8)* 3.9(−8)
H2CCO 9.2 (−10) 1.4(−9) 8.0(−9) 9.3(−12) 4.6(−8)
HCOOH (0.6−2.9)(−9) 8.3(−10) 3.0(−8)* 1.3(−10) 1.2(−9)
HCOOCH3 1.1(−8) 3.3(−8) 1.6(−8) 2.6(−8) 2.0(−8) 1.3(−8) 4.4(−9) 3.4(−8)
CH3CHO (1.1−7.4)(−9) 5.8(−9) 1.1(−8) 2.0(−9) 1.3(−11) 1.1(−8)
CH3OCH3 1.0(−8) 1.0(−8) 3.6(−8) 1.0(−8) 3.3(−8) 2.6(−9) 1.5(−7)
CH3COCH3 1.4(−9) (2.5−8.3)(−9) 5.0(−10) 1.2(−8)
HNCO (0.3−1.4)(−9) 2.5(−9) 1.6(−9) 8.0(−10) 1.9(−9) 1.0(−7)
NH2CHO (1.2−6.7)(−10) 8.3(−10) 2.4(−9) 4.5(−10) 1.9(−10) 1.0(−7)
CH3CN (0.3−1.4)(−9) 3.3(−9) 4.0(−9) 3.5(−9) 6.0(−9)* 1.7(−9) 8.5(−10) 1.5(−7)
C2H5CN (1.7−5.6)(−10) 3.0(−10) 3.0(−10) (0.45−1.1)(−9) 1.4(−9) 1.7(−9) 1.3(−9) 1.4(−7)

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