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Deuterated formaldehyde in the low-mass protostar HH212
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Deuterated formaldehyde in the low-mass protostar HH212

Dipen Sahu, Y.C. Minh, Chin-Fei Lee, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Ankan Das, S.K. Chakrabarti and Bhala Sivaraman
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.475(4), pp.5322-5329
04/2018

Abstract

Astrochemistry Herbig-Haro objects ISM: individual objects: HH212 ISM: jets and outflows ISM: molecules Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science
HH212, a nearby (400 pc) object in Orion, is a class 0 protostellar system with a Keplerian disc and collimated bipolar SiO jets. Deuterated water, HDO, and a deuterated complex molecule, methanol (CH 2 DOH), have been reported in the source. Here, we report the HDCO (deuterated formaldehyde) line observation from Atacama Large Millimeter Array data to probe the inner region of HH212. We compare HDCO line with other molecular lines to understand the possible chemistry and physics of the source. The distribution of HDCO emission suggests that it may be associated with the base of the outflow. The emission also shows a rotation but it is not associated with the Keplerian rotation of disc or the rotating infalling envelope, rather it is associated with the outflow as previously seen in C 34 S. From the possible deuterium fractionation, we speculate that the gas phase formation of deuterated formaldehyde is active in the central hot region of the low-mass protostar system, HH212.

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