A spectroscopic survey of Orion KL between 41.5 and 50 GHz

Abstract

Orion KL is one of the most frequently observed sources in the Galaxy, and the site where many molecular species have been discovered for the first time. With the availability of powerful wideband backends, it is nowadays possible to complete spectral surveys in the entire mm-range to obtain a spectroscopically unbiased chemical picture of the region. In this paper we present a sensitive spectral survey of Orion KL, made with one of the 34m antennas of the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Robledo de Chavela, Spain. The spectral range surveyed is from 41.5 to 50 GHz, with a frequency spacing of 180 kHz (equivalent to about 1.2 km/s, depending on the exact frequency). The rms achieved ranges from 8 to 12 mK. The spectrum is dominated by the J=1-0 SiO maser lines and by radio recombination lines (RRLs), which were detected up to Delta_n=11. Above a 3-sigma level, we identified 66 RRLs and 161 molecular lines corresponding to 39 isotopologues from 20 molecules; a total of 18 lines remain unidentified, two of them above a 5-sigma level. Results of radiative modelling of the detected molecular lines (excluding masers) are presented. At this frequency range, this is the most sensitive survey and also the one with the widest band. Although some complex molecules like CH_3CH_2CN and CH_2CHCN arise from the hot core, most of the detected molecules originate from the low temperature components in Orion KL.

arXiv commentAccepted for Astronomy and Astrophysics. 29 pages, 5 tables, 6 figures

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