We have used the 3 mm receiver and upgraded antenna of Haystack Observatory to make high spatial and spectral resolution observations of lines of N2H+ and C3H2 in 60 dense cores. Both species are detected in most of the cores, and the velocities, and line widths are well correlated. This suggests that ions and neutrals are well coupled. We found vD,max ≤ 0.03 km s-1, which is the first observational constraint on the relative speed of ions and neutrals in star-forming dense cores. Twenty of the cores were also observed in the JN = 43-32 line of CCS. From our N2H+ observations, the fractional abundance of the molecular nitrogen N2 is found to be 7 × 10-5, consistent with all the nitrogen being in molecular form and not depleted onto dust grains.
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机译:我们使用了3毫米接收机和干草堆天文台的升级天线来对60个致密核心中的N2H +和C3H2线进行高空间和光谱分辨率的观测。在大多数岩心中都检测到了这两种物质,并且速度和线宽也具有很好的相关性。这表明离子和中性离子耦合良好。我们发现vD,max≤0.03 km s-1,这是对恒星形成的致密核中离子和中性粒子相对速度的第一个观测约束。在CCS的JN = 43-32线中也观察到了20个岩心。根据我们的N2H +观测值,发现分子氮N2的分数丰度为7×10-5,这与所有氮都以分子形式存在并且没有耗尽尘埃颗粒一致。
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