The Difference in Abundances between N-bearing and O-bearing Species in High-Mass Star-Forming Regions

Abstract

The different spatial distributions of N-bearing and O-bearing species, as is well known towards Orion~KL, is one of the long-lasting mysteries. We conducted a survey observation and chemical modeling study to investigate if the different distributions of O- and N-bearing species are widely recognized in general star-forming regions. First, we report our observational results of complex organic molecules (COMs) with the 45~m radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory towards eight star-forming regions. Through our spectral survey ranging from 80 to 108~GHz, we detected CH${}_3$OH, HCOOCH${}_3$, CH${}_3$OCH${}_3$, (CH${}_3$)${}_2$CO, CH${}_3$CHO, CH${}_3$CH${}_2$CN, CH${}_2$CHCN, and NH${}_2$CHO. Their molecular abundances were derived via the rotation diagram and the least squares methods. We found that N-bearing molecules, tend to show stronger correlations with other N-bearing molecules rather than O-bearing molecules. While G10.47+0.03 showed high fractional abundances of N-bearing species, those in NGC6334F were not so rich, being less than 0.01 compared to CH${}_3$OH. Then, the molecular abundances towards these sources were evaluated by chemical modeling with NAUTILUS three-phase gas-grain chemical code. Through the simulations of time evolutions for the abundances of COMs, we suggest that observed correlations of fractional abundances between COMs can be explained by the combination of the different temperature structures inside the hot cores and the different evolutionary phase. Since our modeling could not fully explain the observed excitation temperatures, it is important to investigate the efficiency of grain surface reactions and their activation barriers, and the binding energy of COMs to further promote our understanding.

arXiv commentAccepted to ApJS

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