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Table 4

Kinetic temperatures and densities from CO lines.

Box Tkin (K)
nH = 104 cm−3 105 cm−3 106 cm−3 107 cm−3
1 1750–2000 800–1250 300–350 200–250
2 1000–2000 600–850 250 200
3 ≳ 2000 1200–2000 350–450 250–300
4 ≳ 2000 1900–2000 500–650 350–450
5 ≳ 2000 1000–1600 350–400 250
6 ≳ 2000 1400–2000 400–500 300–350
7 ≳ 2000 ≳ 2000 500–700 350–500
8 ≳ 2000 1600–2000 450–550 300–400
9 1150–2000 650–900 250–300 200
10 1050–2000 600–850 250 200

Notes. The calculations assumed a column density of CO of 1017 cm−2 and a line width of 40 km s−1 (see Sect. 4.2.1). The ranges of Tkin are provided assuming the 10% error of the CO 14–13/CO 16–15 ratio. The temperature of 2000 K is the maximum value in our grid (Fig. 8) and should be considered as the lower limit at low densities.

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