Correlations among complex organic molecules around protostars: Effects of physical structure
arXiv:2404.10045 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347033
Abstract
Column density ratios of complex organic molecules are generally constant across protostellar systems with some low-level scatter. However, the scatter in formamide (NHCHO) to methanol (CHOH) column density ratio is one of the highest. This larger scatter is sometimes interpreted as evidence of gas-phase formation of NHCHO. In this work we propose an alternative interpretation in which this scatter is produced by differences in the snowline locations related to differences in binding energies of these species and the small-scale structure of the envelope and the disk system. We also include CHCN in our work as a control molecule which has a similar binding energy to CHOH. We use radiative transfer models to calculate the emission from these species in protostellar systems with and without disks. The abundances of these species are parameterized in our models. Then we fit the calculated emission lines to find the column densities as done in real observations. We find a correction factor of ~10 to be multiplied by gas-phase to give the true abundance ratio of these two species in the ices. We find that models with different physical parameters produce a scatter in , comparable with that of observations. The scatter in is larger than that of in models consistent with the observations. We show that the scatter in will be lower if we correct for the difference in sublimation temperatures of these two species in observations of ~40 protostellar systems with ALMA. The scatter in can be partially explained by the difference in their binding energies. We conclude that gas-phase chemistry routes for NHCHO are not necessary to explain the larger scatter of compared with other ratios.
Accepted for publication in A&A
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