Chemical variations across the TMC-1 boundary: molecular tracers from translucent phase to dense phase

Abstract

We investigated the chemical evolutions of gas phase and grain surface species across the Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1) filament from translucent phase to dense phase. By comparing observations with modeling results from an up-to-date chemical network, we examined the conversion processes for the carbon-, oxygen-, nitrogen- and sulfur-bearing species, i.e.from their initial atomic form to their main molecular reservoir form both in the gas phase and on the grain surface. The conversion processes were found to depend on the species and A${}_V$. The effect of initial carbon to oxygen elemental abundances ratio (C/O) by varying O on the chemistry was explored, and an initial carbon elemental abundance of 2.5 $\times$ 10${}^{-4}$ and a C/O ratio of 0.5 could best reproduce the abundances of most observed molecules at TMC-1 CP, where more than 90 molecules have been identified. Based on the TMC-1 condition, we predicted a varied grain ice composition during the evolutions of molecular clouds, with H${}_2$O ice as the dominant ice composition at A${}_V$ $>$ 4 mag, CO${}_2$ ice as the dominant ice composition at A${}_V$ $<$ 4 mag, while CO ice severely decreased at A${}_V$ around 4--5 mag.

25 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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