C^(18)O Observations of the Dark Molecular Cloud L134 and Gas Depletion onto Dust  

作　　者：Xin-Jie Mao and Xiao-Xia Sun Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875 [e-mail] 

出　　处：《Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics》2005年第2期144-150,共7页中国天文和天体物理学报（英文版）

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10273002).

摘　　要：We map the dark molecular cloud core of L134 in the C^(18)O (J = 1 - 0)emission line using the PMO 13.7m telescope, and present a contour map of integrated intensity ofC^(18)O (J = 1 - 0) emission. The C^(18)O cloud is inside the distribution of extinction A_B, thevisual extinction of blue light, as well as inside the ^(13)CO cloud in the L134 region. Thedepletion factors in this C^(18)O cloud are generally greater than unity, which means there is gasdepletion onto dust. Since only a minimum A_B - 9.7 mag is available, and our observations measureboth undepleted and depleted regions along the line of sight, the depletion factors could verylikely be larger in the central core than the calculated value. So we conclude that depletion doesoccur in the bulk of the C^(18)O cloud through a comparison between the C^(18)O and blue extinctionmaps in the L134 region. There is no direct evidence as yet for star formation in L134, and so coreson the verge of collapse will not be visible in CO and other gas molecules.We map the dark molecular cloud core of L134 in the C^(18)O (J = 1 - 0)emission line using the PMO 13.7m telescope, and present a contour map of integrated intensity ofC^(18)O (J = 1 - 0) emission. The C^(18)O cloud is inside the distribution of extinction A_B, thevisual extinction of blue light, as well as inside the ^(13)CO cloud in the L134 region. Thedepletion factors in this C^(18)O cloud are generally greater than unity, which means there is gasdepletion onto dust. Since only a minimum A_B - 9.7 mag is available, and our observations measureboth undepleted and depleted regions along the line of sight, the depletion factors could verylikely be larger in the central core than the calculated value. So we conclude that depletion doesoccur in the bulk of the C^(18)O cloud through a comparison between the C^(18)O and blue extinctionmaps in the L134 region. There is no direct evidence as yet for star formation in L134, and so coreson the verge of collapse will not be visible in CO and other gas molecules.

关 键 词：ISM: clouds ISM: individual (L134) ISM: molecules ISM: extinction 

分 类 号：P172[天文地球—天文学]