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Abundances of Organic Molecules in Molecular Cloud Cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2017

Edmund C. Sutton  and
Andrej M. Sobolev
Edmund C. Sutton
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, 1002 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Andrej M. Sobolev
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Ural State University, Lenin Street 51, Ekaterinburg 620083, Russia

Abstract

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Molecular cloud cores are often found to contain regions with high abundances of organic molecules such as formaldehyde, methanol, ethanol, dimethyl ether, and methyl formate. First we will review the status of observations of these molecules in a number of sources and discuss some of the limitations of present techniques. Then we will discuss systematic factors involved in the conversion of column densities into fractional abundances and introduce an independent method of calibrating that conversion. Finally we will present recent results from high spatial resolution observations of W3(OH).

Type
Astrochemistry
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 213: Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the stars , 2004 , pp. 173 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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