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Nguyen Fuda et al 2023 ApJ 944 17Journal
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Molecular emission arising from the interactions of supernova remnant (SNR) shock waves and molecular clouds provide a tool for studying the dispersion and compression that might kick-start star formation as well as understanding cosmic-ray production. Purely rotational CO emission created by magnetohydrodynamic shock in the SNR-molecular cloud interaction is an effective shock tracer, particularly for slow-moving, continuous shocks into cold inner clumps of the molecular cloud. In this work, we present a new theoretical radiative transfer framework for predicting the line profile of CO with the Paris-Durham 1D shock model. We generated line profile predictions for CO emission produced by slow, magnetized C shocks into gas of density ∼104 cm−3 with shock speeds of 35 and 50 km s−1. The numerical framework to reproduce the CO line profile utilizes the large velocity gradient (LVG) approximation and the omission of optically thick plane-parallel slabs. With this framework, we generated predictions for various CO spectroscopic observations up to J = 16 in SNRs W28 and IC 443, obtained with SOFIA, IRAM-30 m, APEX, and KPNO. We found that CO line profile prediction offers constraints on the shock velocity and pre-shock density independent of the absolute line brightness and requires fewer CO lines than diagnostics using a rotational excitation diagram. © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.Note
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10.3847/1538-4357/acb259
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