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Variation of the excitation temperature and opacity with the electron fraction, kinetic temperature, and H2 ortho-to-para ratio for the 11,0−11,1 line at 4.8 GHz (top left), and zoom on the region with excitation temperature lower than the CMB indicated by a dotted box (top right). The 21,2−11,1 line at 140 GHz is shown in the bottom left panel and the 21,1−11,0 line at 150 GHz in the bottom right panel. The difference between the excitation temperature and the CMB is plotted to illustrate the change of regime of the 11,0−11,1 transition at 4.8 GHz, and a different scale is used for the 140 GHz and 150 GHz lines. Different symbols show the values of the H2 ortho-to-para ratio between 3 × 10-5 and 3, their color and size indicate the kinetic temperature between 10 and 60 K. The column density of o-H2CO is 2.2 × 1012 cm-2, the H2 density is set to 103 cm-3, and the FWHM is 0.5 km s-1. The 21,2−11,1 line at 140 GHz has not been observed in this work.
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