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Chemical diversity of dense cores in Orion B: The role of the environment
Helena J. Mazurek, Maryvonne Gerin, Pierre Gratier +26
Prestellar cores are the sites of the earliest stages of star formation. Dust continuum observations are often used to identify and characterize their properties yet only a small f…
Estimating the dense gas mass of molecular clouds using spatially unresolved 3 mm line observations
Antoine Zakardjian, Annie Hughes, Jérôme Pety +28
We aim to develop a new method to infer the sub-beam probability density function (PDF) of H2 column densities and the dense gas mass within molecular clouds using spatially unreso…
Tracers of the ionization fraction in dense and translucent molecular gas: II. Using mm observations to constrain ionization fraction across Orion B
Ivana BeÅ¡liÄ, Maryvonne Gerin, Viviana V. Guzmán +28
The ionization fraction () is a crucial parameter of interstellar gas, yet estimating it requires deep knowledge of molecular gas chemistry…
Toward a robust physical and chemical characterization of heterogeneous lines of sight: The case of the Horsehead nebula
Léontine Ségal, Antoine Roueff, Jérôme Pety +28
Dense cold molecular cores/filaments are surrounded by an envelope of translucent gas. Some of the low-J emission lines of CO and HCO isotopologues are more sensitive to the co…
Quantifying the informativity of emission lines to infer physical conditions in giant molecular clouds. I. Application to model predictions
Lucas Einig, Pierre Palud, Antoine Roueff +29
Observations of ionic, atomic, or molecular lines are performed to improve our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the potential of a line to constrain the phy…