Complex organic molecules in the center of NGC 253 emit from two gas components and most likely trace large-scale shocks, with nitrogen-bearing species depleted toward GMC 7.
Modeling Complex Organic Molecules Formation in Cold Cores: Multi-phase Models with Non-thermal Mechanisms
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In recent years, a significant number of oxygen-bearing complex organic molecules (COMs) have been detected in the gas phase of cold dark clouds such as TMC-1. The formation of these COMs cannot be explained by diffusive mechanisms on grains and gas phase reactions. This study investigates the formation of oxygen-bearing COMs in cold dark clouds using multiphase gas-grain models that incorporate cosmic ray-induced non-diffusive radiation chemistry and non-thermal sputtering desorption mechanisms. Additionally, we present the effects of varying elemental C/O ratio and different sputtering rates. We utilized an accelerated Gillespie algorithm, based on the regular Gillespie algorithm. The results of our models for dimethyl ether (CH3OCH3), methyl formate (HCOOCH3), acetaldehyde (CH3CHO), ethanol (C2H5OH), and methanol (CH3OH) show reasonable agreement with observations toward TMC-1, within a factor of 3. Out of the 94 species compared with observations, 63 show agreement within 1 order of magnitude, accounting for 67.02%. Overall inclusion of non-thermal mechanisms in multi-phase models shows notable improvement of modeling on oxygen-bearing COMs in the interstellar medium.
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Complex Organic Molecules towards the central molecular zone of NGC 253
Complex organic molecules in the center of NGC 253 emit from two gas components and most likely trace large-scale shocks, with nitrogen-bearing species depleted toward GMC 7.