A Map of DCO⁺ 3-2 and Deuteration Ratio in NGC 1333
| dc.contributor.advisor | Shirley, Yancy | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Raphael, Brandon Adam | |
| dc.creator | Raphael, Brandon Adam | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-30T18:18:53Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-09-30T18:18:53Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Raphael, Brandon Adam. (2015). A Map of DCO⁺ 3-2 and Deuteration Ratio in NGC 1333 (Bachelor's thesis, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA). | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/578974 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Deuterium fractionation may prove to be a valuable tracer of the gas associated with the earliest phases of star formation. Specifically, HCO⁺ is an abundant molecule in cold, dense gas clouds in the ISM. The HCO⁺ molecule is deuterated and becomes DCO⁺. NGC 1333, which lies in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, is a well-documented, active protostellar-forming region which may serve as a good platform to test the usefulness of DCO⁺ as a gas tracer. H¹³CO⁺ is known to be sensitive at similar conditions as DCO⁺, thus the ratio of DCO⁺ to H¹³CO⁺, R(D), then provides a method of mapping the Deuterium fractionation. We mapped the NGC 1333 region in the spectral line DCO⁺ 3 - 2 and compare to a previous map of H¹³CO⁺ 3 - 2 to derive R(D). We find a maximum R(D) = 0.140, with typical values of a few times 0.01 that is comparable to other studies. DCO⁺ emission is extended in this region and correlates well with dust continuum emission, but the Deuterium fractionation was not strongly dependent on peak core location. These results indicate that astrochemical surveys that use pointed observations at core peak locations may miss significant structure in the Deuterium fractionation within molecular clouds. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | The University of Arizona. | en |
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| dc.title | A Map of DCO⁺ 3-2 and Deuteration Ratio in NGC 1333 | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Arizona | en |
| thesis.degree.level | bachelors | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Honors College | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Astronomy | en |
| thesis.degree.name | B.S. | en |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-09-10T12:09:22Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Deuterium fractionation may prove to be a valuable tracer of the gas associated with the earliest phases of star formation. Specifically, HCO⁺ is an abundant molecule in cold, dense gas clouds in the ISM. The HCO⁺ molecule is deuterated and becomes DCO⁺. NGC 1333, which lies in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, is a well-documented, active protostellar-forming region which may serve as a good platform to test the usefulness of DCO⁺ as a gas tracer. H¹³CO⁺ is known to be sensitive at similar conditions as DCO⁺, thus the ratio of DCO⁺ to H¹³CO⁺, R(D), then provides a method of mapping the Deuterium fractionation. We mapped the NGC 1333 region in the spectral line DCO⁺ 3 - 2 and compare to a previous map of H¹³CO⁺ 3 - 2 to derive R(D). We find a maximum R(D) = 0.140, with typical values of a few times 0.01 that is comparable to other studies. DCO⁺ emission is extended in this region and correlates well with dust continuum emission, but the Deuterium fractionation was not strongly dependent on peak core location. These results indicate that astrochemical surveys that use pointed observations at core peak locations may miss significant structure in the Deuterium fractionation within molecular clouds. |
