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[tel-00726959, v1] Caractériser le milieu interstellaire ... - HAL - INRIA

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A&A 494, 977–985 (2009)DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200810933c○ ESO 2009Astronomy&AstrophysicsHCO mapping of the Horsehead: tracing the illuminateddense mo<strong>le</strong>cular cloud surfaces ⋆,⋆⋆M. Gerin 1 , J. R. Goicoechea 1,⋆⋆⋆ ,J.Pety 2,1 , and P. Hily-Blant 31 LERMA–LRA, UMR 8112, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris and Éco<strong>le</strong> Norma<strong>le</strong> Supérieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris, Francee-mail: maryvonne.gerin@lra.ens.fr; jrgoicoechea@fis.ucm.es2 IRAM, 300 rue de la Piscine, 38406 Grenob<strong>le</strong> cedex, Francee-mail: pety@iram.fr3 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, Observatoire de Grenob<strong>le</strong>, BP 53, 38041 Grenob<strong>le</strong> Cedex 09, Francee-mail: pierre.hilyblant@obs.ujf-grenob<strong>le</strong>.frReceived 8 September 2008 / Accepted 14 November 2008ABSTRACT<strong>tel</strong>-<strong>00726959</strong>, version 1 - 31 Aug 2012Context. Far-UV photons (FUV) strongly affect the physical and chemical state of mo<strong>le</strong>cular gas in the vicinity of young massivestars.Aims. Finding mo<strong>le</strong>cular tracers of the presence of FUV radiation fields in the millimeter wave<strong>le</strong>ngth domain is desirab<strong>le</strong> becauseIR diagnostics (for instance PAHs) are not easily accessib<strong>le</strong> along high extinction line-of-sights. Furthermore, gas phase diagnosticsprovide information on the velocity fields.Methods. We have obtained maps of the HCO and H 13 CO + ground state lines towards the Horsehead edge at 5 ′′ angular resolutionwith a combination of Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) and the IRAM-30 m <strong>tel</strong>escope observations. These maps have beencomp<strong>le</strong>mented with IRAM-30 m observations of several excited transitions at two different positions.Results. Bright formyl radical emission delineates the illuminated edge of the nebula, with a faint emission remaining towards theshielded mo<strong>le</strong>cular core. Viewed from the illuminated star, the HCO emission almost coincides with the PAH and CCH emission. HCOreaches a similar abundance to HCO + in the photon dissociation region (PDR), ≃1–2×10 −9 with respect to H 2 . To our know<strong>le</strong>dge, thisis the highest HCO abundance ever measured. Pure gas-phase chemistry models fail to reproduce the observed HCO abundance by∼2 orders of magnitude, except if reactions of atomic oxygen with carbon radicals abundant in the PDR (i.e., CH 2 ) play a significantro<strong>le</strong> in the HCO formation. Alternatively, HCO could be produced in the PDR by non-thermal processes such as photo-processing ofice mant<strong>le</strong>s and subsequent photo-desorption of either HCO or H 2 CO, and further gas phase photodissociation.Conclusions. The measured HCO/H 13 CO + abundance ratio is large towards the PDR (≃50), and much lower toward the gas shieldedfrom FUV radiation (1). We propose that high HCO abundances (10 −10 ) together with large HCO/H 13 CO + abundance ratios (1)are sensitive diagnostics of the presence of active photochemistry induced by FUV radiation.Key words. astrochemistry – ISM: clouds – ISM: mo<strong>le</strong>cu<strong>le</strong>s – ISM: individual objects: Horsehead nebula – radiative transfer –radio lines: ISM1. IntroductionPhotodissociation region (PDR) models are used to understandthe evolution of far-UV (FUV; hν

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