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Laboratory Measurement of Millimeter-wave Transitions of 13CH2DOH for Astronomical Use
- Source :
- The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 932, Iss 2, p 101 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2022.
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Abstract
- Methanol (CH _3 OH) is an abundant interstellar species and is known to be an important precursor of various interstellar complex organic molecules. Among the methanol isotopologues, CH _2 DOH is one of the most abundant isotopologues and it is often used to study the deuterium fractionation of CH _3 OH in interstellar medium. However, the emission lines of CH _2 DOH can sometimes be optically thick, making the derivation of its abundance unreliable. Therefore, observations of its presumably optically thin ^13 C substituted species, ^13 CH _2 DOH, are essential to overcome this issue. In this study, the rotational transitions of ^13 CH _2 DOH have been measured in the millimeter-wave region from 216 GHz to 264 GHz with an emission-type millimeter- and submillimeter-wave spectrometer by using a deuterium and ^13 C enriched sample. The frequency accuracy of measured ^13 CH _2 DOH is less than a few kHz, and the relative line intensity error is less than 10% in most of the frequency range by taking advantage of the wide simultaneous frequency-coverage of the emission-type spectrometer. These results offer a good opportunity to detect ^13 CH _2 DOH in space, which will allow us to study the deuterium fractionation of CH _3 OH in various sources through accurate determination of the CH _2 DOH abundance.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15384357
- Volume :
- 932
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.312f8ddb1544e7cab7a1a83e3c851fc
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6b9e