Publication Date
2000
Journal or Book Title
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Abstract
We have used the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite to map the ground-state 110 → 101 transition of ortho-H2O at 557 GHz in the Orion molecular cloud. H2O emission was detected in Orion over an angular extent of about 20', or nearly 3 pc. The water emission is relatively weak, with line widths (3-6 km s-1) and VLSR velocities (9-11 km s-1) consistent with an origin in the cold gas of the molecular ridge. We find that the ortho-H2O abundance relative to H2 in the extended gas in Orion varies between 1 and 8 × 10-8, with an average of 3 × 10-8. The absence of detectable narrow-line ortho-H218O emission is used to set a 3 σ upper limit on the relative ortho-H2O abundance of 7 × 10-8.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/312855
Pages
L93-L96
Volume
539
Issue
2
Recommended Citation
Snell, Ronald L.; Howe, JE; Ashby, MLN; Bergin, EA; Chin, G; Erickson, NR; Goldsmith, PF; Harwit, M; Kleiner, SC; Koch, DG; Neufeld, DA; Patten, BM; Plume, R; Schieder, R; Stauffer, JR; Tolls, V; Wang, Z; Winnewisser, G; Zhang, YF; and Melnick, GJ, "Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite observations of extended water emission in Orion" (2000). ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 631.
https://doi.org/10.1086/312855
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/539/2/L93