The warm CO gas along the UV-heated outflow cavity walls: a possible interpretation for the Herschel/PACS CO spectra of embedded YSOs

Abstract

A fraction of the mid-$J$ ($J$= 14--13 to $J$= 24--23) CO emission detected by the \textit{Herschel}/PACS observations of embedded young stellar objects (YSOs) has been attributed to the UV-heated outflow cavity walls. We have applied our newly developed self-consistent models of Photon-Dominated Region (PDR) and non-local thermal equilibrium line Radiative transfer In general Grid (RIG) to the \textit{Herschel} FIR observations of 27 low mass YSOs and one intermediate mass YSO, NGC7129-FIRS2. When the contribution of the hot component (traced by transitions of $J>24$) is removed, the rotational temperature of the warm component is nearly constant with $\sim 250$ K. This can be reproduced by the outflow cavity wall ($n\ge 10^6{\mathrm{cm}}^{-3}$, $\log G_0/n\ge -4.5$, $\log G_0\ge 3$, $T_{\mathrm{gas}}\ge 300$K, and X(CO)$\ge 10^{-5}$) heated by a UV radiation field with a black body temperature of 15,000 K or 10,000 K. However, a shock model combined with an internal PDR will be required to determine the quantitative contribution of a PDR relative to a shock to the mid-$J$ CO emission.

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