Sulphur chemistry in the envelopes of massive young stars

Abstract

The sulphur chemistry in nine regions in the earliest stages of high-mass star formation is studied through single-dish submillimeter spectroscopy. The line profiles indicate that 10-50% of the SO and SO2 emission arises in high-velocity gas, either infalling or outflowing. For the low-velocity gas, excitation temperatures are 25 K for H2S, 50 K for SO, H2CS, NS and HCS+, and 100 K for OCS and SO2, indicating that most observed emission traces the outer parts (T<100 K) of the molecular envelopes, except high-excitation OCS and SO2 lines. Abundances in the outer envelopes, calculated with a Monte Carlo program, using the physical structures of the sources derived from previous submillimeter continuum and CS line data, are ~10^-8 for OCS, ~10^-9 for H2S, H2CS, SO and SO2, and ~10^-10 for HCS+ and NS. In the inner envelopes (T>100 K) of six sources, the SO2 abundance is enhanced by factors of ~100-1000. This region of hot, abundant SO2 has been seen before in infrared absorption, and must be small, <~ 0.2 arcsec (180 AU radius). The derived abundance profiles are consistent with models of envelope chemistry which invoke ice evaporation at T~100$ K. Shock chemistry is unlikely to contribute. A major sulphur carrier in the ices is probably OCS, not H2S as most models assume. The source-to-source abundance variations of most molecules by factors of ~10 do not correlate with previous systematic tracers of envelope heating. Without observations of H2S and SO lines probing warm (>~ 100 K) gas, sulphur-bearing molecules cannot be used as evolutionary tracers during star formation.

arXiv commentAccepted by A&A, 14 pages, 5 figures

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