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[PCG22-09] 星形成コア内のCOMsの炭素同位体分別に対する宇宙線の影響
キーワード:宇宙化学、星形成
Recent high-resolution and sensitivity ALMA observations have unveiled the carbon isotope ratios (12C/13C) of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) in a low-mass protostellar source. To understand the 12C/13C ratios of COMs, we investigated the carbon isotopic fractionation of COMs from prestellar cores to protostellar cores with a gas-grain chemical network model. COMs are mainly formed on the grain surface and in the hot gas (> 100 K) in the protostellar phase. The 12C/13C ratios of COMs depend on the molecules from which the COMs are formed and the reactions through which the COMs are formed. By incorporating reactions between gaseous atomic C and H2O ice or CO ice on the grain surface to form H2CO ice or C2O ice, as suggested by recent laboratory studies, we find that these direct C-atom addition reactions mitigate carbon isotope fractionation. Also, the model with the direct C-atom addition reactions better reproduces the observations than the model without the direct C-atom addition reactions. However, CH3OCH3 in our results shows depletion in 13C compared to observations. We also investigate the effect of various cosmic ray (CR) ionization rates on the 12C/13C ratio of COMs. High CR ionization rates promoted 13C-depleted COMs via radical-radical reactions on warm grain surfaces during the collapse phase. For CH3OCH3, CR ionization contributes to its increase via ion-molecule reactions and subsequent dissociative recombination in the warm gas phase after water ice sublimation. Consequently, the 12C/13C ratio of CH3OCH3 decreases rapidly with time. When the CR ionization rates become 1.3×10−14 s−1 only after protostar formation, this ratio becomes enriched in 13C. However, the 12C/13C ratio of CH3OCH3 even at the end of the collapse phase remains higher than the observations. We need more investigation to reproduce the observed carbon isotope fractionation of CH3OCH3.
