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Molecular Line Emission from the Young Planetary Nebula NGC 7027

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Tatsuhiko I. Hasegawa
Affiliation:
Departement of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary
Sun Kwok
Affiliation:
Departement of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

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NGC 7027 has been observed in eleven molecular species (in seventeen transitions) in the 200 and 300 GHz bands with the James Clarke Maxwell Telescope (Hasegawa & Kwok 2001). The results include a first detection of C2H in this source. The observed spectra of HCO+, H13CO+, HCN, CN, C2H, and CO+ show line widths larger than that of bulk CO emission but coincident with the full width at detection limit of weak wings in CO spectra. The sizes of the HCO+, HCN, and CN emitting regions are 13″ in diameter at half-peak level, significantly smaller than that (60″) of the CO emitting region. The emission of all the observed molecules other than CO and 13CO must originate from a very small volume compared with the entire CO envelope of NGC 7027. Since the central 10″ region is an ionized region, the molecular emission region (except CO) must be geometrically thin (ΔR = 1″ – 2″) and must be close to the ionization front.

Type
Part V: Dust and Molecules in Planetary Nebulae
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

References

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