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2010A&A...521L..14Q - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 521, L14-14 (2010/10-1)

Herschel observations of EXtra-Ordinary Sources (HEXOS): detecting spiral arm clouds by CH absorption lines.

QIN S.-L., SCHILKE P., COMITO C., MOELLER T., ROLFFS R., MUELLER H.S.P., BELLOCHE A., MENTEN K.M., LIS D.C., PHILLIPS T.G., BERGIN E.A., BELL T.A., CROCKETT N.R., BLAKE G.A., CABRIT S., CAUX E., CECCARELLI C., CERNICHARO J., DANIEL F., DUBERNET M.-L., EMPRECHTINGER M., ENCRENAZ P., FALGARONE E., GERIN M., GIESEN T.F., GOICOECHEA J.R., GOLDSMITH P.F., GUPTA H., HERBST E., JOBLIN C., JOHNSTONE D., LANGER W.D., LORD S.D., MARET S., MARTIN P.G., MELNICK G.J., MORRIS P., MURPHY J.A., NEUFELD D.A., OSSENKOPF V., PAGANI L., PEARSON J.C., PERAULT M., PLUME R., SALEZ M., SCHLEMMER S., STUTZKI J., TRAPPE N., VAN DER TAK F.F.S., VASTEL C., WANG S., YORKE H.W., YU S., ZMUIDZINAS J., BOOGERT A., GUESTEN R., HARTOGH P., HONINGH N., KARPOV A., KOOI J., KRIEG J.-M., SCHIEDER R., DIEZ-GONZALEZ M.C., BACHILLER R., MARTIN-PINTADO J., BAECHTOLD W., OLBERG M., NORDH L.H., GILL J.L. and CHATTOPADHYAY G.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have observed CH absorption lines (J=3/2, N=1 using the Herschel/HIFI instrument. With the high spectral resolution and wide velocity coverage provided by HIFI, 31 CH absorption features with different radial velocities and line widths are detected and identified. The narrower line width and lower column density clouds show ``spiral arm'' cloud characteristics, while the absorption component with the broadest line width and highest column density corresponds to the gas from the Sgr B2 envelope. The observations show that each ``spiral arm'' harbors multiple velocity components, indicating that the clouds are not uniform and that they have internal structure. This line-of-sight through almost the entire Galaxy offers unique possibilities to study the basic chemistry of simple molecules in diffuse clouds, as a variety of different cloud classes are sampled simultaneously. We find that the linear relationship between CH and H2 column densities found at lower AV by UV observations does not continue into the range of higher visual extinction. There, the curve flattens, which probably means that CH is depleted in the denser cores of these clouds.

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Journal keyword(s): ISM: abundances - ISM: molecules

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