Molecular Cloud Cores with High Deuterium Fractions: Nobeyama Mapping Survey
Ken’ichi Tatematsu, Gwanjeong Kim, Tie Liu, Neal J. Evans II, Hee-Weon Yi, Jeong-Eun Lee, Yuefang Wu, Naomi Hirano, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Somnath Dutta, Dipen Sahu, Patricio Sanhueza, Kee-Tae Kim, Mika Juvela, L. Viktor Tóth, Orsolya Fehér, Jinhua He, Jixing Ge, Siyi Feng, Minho Choi, Miju Kang, Mark A. Thompson, Gary A. Fuller, Di Li, Isabelle Ristorcelli, Ke Wang, James Di Francesco, David Eden, Satoshi Ohashi, Ryo Kandori, Charlotte Vastel, Tomoya Hirota, Takeshi Sakai, Xing Lu, Quang Nguyên Lu’o’ng, Hiroko Shinnaga, Jungha Kim
Abstract
Abstract We present the results of on-the-fly mapping observations of 44 fields containing 107 SCUBA-2 cores in the emission lines of molecules N 2 H + , HC 3 N, and CCS at 82–94 GHz using the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. This study aimed at investigating the physical properties of cores that show high deuterium fractions and might be close to the onset of star formation. We found that the distributions of the N 2 H + and HC 3 N line emissions are approximately similar to the distribution of the 850 μ m dust continuum emission, whereas the CCS line emission is often undetected or is distributed in a clumpy structure surrounding the peak position of the 850 μ m dust continuum emission. Occasionally (12%), we observe CCS emission, which is an early-type gas tracer toward the young stellar object, probably due to local high excitation. Evolution toward star formation does not immediately affect the nonthermal velocity dispersion.