SMA millimeter observations of Hot Molecular Cores

Abstract

We present Submillimeter Array observations, in the 1.3 mm continuum and the CH_3CN(12-11) line of 17 hot molecular cores associated with young high-mass stars. The angular resolution of the observations ranges from 1".0 to 4".0. The continuum observations reveal large (>3500 AU) dusty structures with gas masses from 7 to 375 Msun, that probably surround multiple young stars. The CH_3CN line emission is detected toward all the molecular cores at least up to the K=6-component and is mostly associated with the emission peaks of the dusty objects. We used the multiple K-components of the CH_3CN and both the rotational diagram method and a simultaneous synthetic LTE model with the XCLASS program to estimate the temperatures and column densities of the cores. For all sources, we obtained reasonable fits from XCLASS by using a model that combines two components: an extended and warm envelope, and a compact hot core of molecular gas, suggesting internal heating by recently formed massive stars. The rotational temperatures lie in the range of 40-132 K and 122-485 K for the extended and compact components, respectively. From the continuum and CH_3CN results, we infer fractional abundances from 10^{-9} to 10^{-7} toward the compact inner components, that increase with the rotational temperature. Our results agree with a chemical scenario in which the CH_3CN molecule is efficiently formed in the gas phase above 100-300 K, and its abundance increases with temperature.

22 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to ApJ

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