Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rcrh6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-02T21:28:48.646Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Spectra of the 10-01 Transition of Sulfur Monoxide in Interstellar Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

O.E.H. Rydbeck ,
Å. Hjalmarson ,
G. Rydbeck ,
J. Elldér ,
E. Kollberg  and
W. M. Irvine
O.E.H. Rydbeck
Affiliation:
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Å. Hjalmarson
Affiliation:
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
G. Rydbeck
Affiliation:
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
J. Elldér
Affiliation:
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
E. Kollberg
Affiliation:
Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
W. M. Irvine
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, USA

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Emission from SO towards a number of HII regions and molecular clouds with embedded energy sources has been reported by several authors (e.g., Gottlieb et al. 1978; Clark et al. 1978; Wannier and Phillips 1977; and references therein; cf. also Loren et al., 1974; Loren et al. 1975; Lada et al. 1974). Transitions observed include the 45→44, 43→32, 32→21, 23→12, 22→11, 12→11, and 10→01, with the latter (to the ground state) seen only in Sgr B2. Recently Rydbeck et al. (1980) have detected SO in cold, dark clouds and have made the first astronomical measurements of the 10→01 transition in a variety of sources, including the corresponding 34SO line. The latter authors find that the 10→01 transition of SO is an excellent tracer of structure in dark clouds, and they discuss the fractional abundance [SO]/[H2] on the basis of column densities derived from observations of the two isotopic species. They also set limits to the magnetic field strength in dark clouds from the absence of observed Zeeman splitting. We shall provide here additional spectra and information on observing procedures, and shall discuss the rest frequencies for the SO and 34SO 10→01 transitions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 87: Interstellar Molecules , 1980 , pp. 71 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

Clark, F.O., Johnson, D.R., Heiles, C.E. and Troland, T.H. 1978, Astrophys. J. 226, 824.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clark, W.W. and DeLucia, F.C. 1976, J. Mol. Spectrosc. 60, 332.Google Scholar
Gottlieb, C.A., Gottlieb, E.W., Litvak, M.M., Ball, J.A. and Penfield, H. 1978, Astrophys. J. 219, 77.Google Scholar
Hjalmarson, Å. and Friberg, P. 1979, this volume.Google Scholar
Kollberg, E.L. and Lewin, P.T. 1976, IEEE Trans., MTT-24, 718.Google Scholar
Lada, C., Dickinson, D.F. and Penfield, H. 1974, Astrophys. J. (Letters) 189, L35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Loren, R.B., Peters, W.L. and Vanden Bout, P.A. 1974, Astrophys. J. (Letters) 194, L103.Google Scholar
Loren, R.B., Peters, W.L. and Vanden Bout, P.A. 1975, Astrophys. J. 195, 75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rydbeck, O.E.H., Elldér, J., Irvine, W.M., Sume, A. and Hjalmarson, Å. 1974, Astron. Astrophys. 34, 479.Google Scholar
Rydbeck, O.E.H., Sume, A., Hjalmarson, Å., Elldér, J. and Kollberg, E. 1977, Astrophys. J. (Letters) 215, L35.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rydbeck, O.E.H., Irvine, W.M., Hjalmarson, Å., Rydbeck, G., Elldér, J. and Kollberg, E. 1980, Astrophys. J. (Letters), 235, L171.Google Scholar
Snyder, L.E., Hollis, J.M., Buhl, D. and Watson, W.D. 1977, Astrophys. J. (Letters) 218, L61.Google Scholar
Sume, A., Downes, D. and Wilson, T.L. 1975, Astron. Astrophys. 39, 435.Google Scholar
Tiemann, E. 1974, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 3, 259.Google Scholar
Wannier, P.G. and Phillips, T.G. 1977, Astrophys. J. 215, 796.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Winnewisser, G. 1979, 3rd Nordic Symposium on Atomic and Molecular Physics, “{Molecules in the Laboratory and in Space”, and private communication.Google Scholar