High Resolution 4.7 um Keck/NIRSPEC Spectra of Protostars. II: Detection of the 13CO Isotope in Icy Grain Mantles
arXiv:astro-ph/0206420 · doi:10.1086/342176
Abstract
The high resolution (R=25,000) infrared M band spectrum of the massive protostar NGC 7538 : IRS9 shows a narrow absorption feature at 4.779 um (2092.3 cm-1) which we attribute to the vibrational stretching mode of the 13CO isotope in pure CO icy grain mantles. This is the first detection of solid 13CO in the interstellar medium. The 13CO band is a factor of 2.3 narrower than the apolar component of the 12CO band. With this in mind, we discuss the mechanisms that broaden solid state absorption bands. It is shown that ellipsoidally shaped pure CO grains fit the bands of both isotopes at the same time. Reasonable fits are also obtained by CO embedded in N2-rich ices and thermally processed O2-rich ices. In addition, we report new insights into the the nature and evolution of interstellar CO ices by comparing the high quality multi-component solid 12CO spectrum of NGC 7538 : IRS9 with that of the previously studied low mass source L1489 IRS. The narrow absorption by apolar CO ices is present in both spectra, but much stronger in NGC 7538. It is superposed on a smooth broad absorption feature well fitted by a combination of CO2 and H2O-rich laboratory CO ices. The abundances of the latter two ices relative to the total H2O ice column are the same in both sources. We thus suggest that thermal processing manifests itself as evaporation of apolar ices only, and not the formation of CO2 or polar ices. Finally, the decomposition of the 12CO band is used to derive the 12CO/13CO abundance ratio in apolar ices. A ratio of 71+/-15 is deduced, in good agreement with gas phase CO studies (~77) and the solid 12CO2/13CO2 ratio of 80+/-11 found in the same line of sight. The implications for the chemical path along which CO2 is formed are discussed.
9 pages, prepared in emulateapj style. Scheduled to appear in ApJ 577 n1, 20 Sept. 2002
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