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Determining the methanol deuteration in the disk around V883 Orionis with laboratory measured spectroscopy

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Pith's one-line read The disk around V883 Ori shows CH2DOH/CH3OD = 1.22 ± 0.02, meaning deuterium in methanol is split almost equally between the carbon and oxygen sides, unlike in the cold protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B.

desk verdict Solid, useful methanol deuteration measurement with an acknowledged but unquantified partition-function systematic that should be addressed before the chemistry is taken as firm. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.07794 v1 pith:PZNG3MGC submitted 2025-06-09 astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GA

Shaoshan Zeng , Jae-Hong Jeong , Takahiro Oyama , Jeong-Eun Lee , Yao-Lun Yang , Nami Sakai This is my paper
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keywords methanoldeuterationV883OriprotoplanetarydiskCH2DOHCH3ODdeuteriumfractionationlaboratoryspectroscopyALMAspectralsurvey
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The reading

In the disk around the young eruptive star V883 Ori, the two singly deuterated versions of methanol—deuterium on the methyl group (CH2DOH) versus on the hydroxyl group (CH3OD)—are nearly equally abundant, with CH2DOH/CH3OD = 1.22 ± 0.02. The paper derives this from ALMA spectra plus recent laboratory-measured line intensities, obtaining column densities of (5.14±0.08)×$10^{16}$ $cm^{-2}$ for CH2DOH and (4.22±0.06)×$10^{16}$ $cm^{-2}$ for CH3OD. The result is unexpected because simple statistical weighting predicts a ratio of 3, and the only other source analyzed with comparable spectroscopy, the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B, shows a ratio of about 22. A ratio near unity suggests that both isotopologues formed by a single D-addition event during the hydrogenation of CO on grain surfaces, without the extra methyl-group enrichment seen in cold cores. The paper also shows that using older theoretical line intensities can over- or underestimate the CH2DOH column density by up to a factor of two depending on which transitions are used, so accurate laboratory intensities are essential for D/H measurements.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the division of the methanol molecule into its two deuterium sites, measured through the ratio CH2DOH/CH3OD, together with the line-intensity calibration $S\mu^2$ (the product of line strength and squared dipole moment) that turns observed line flux into column density. The CH2DOH part uses laboratory-measured intensities from a direct emission spectrometer and a re-evaluated partition function, while the CH3OD part uses a new rotational-spectroscopy analysis; comparing these against the older theoretical catalogue shows that column densities can shift by 10–20% overall and up to a factor of two when only a few transitions in one frequency window are used. The LTE fitting of all unblended transitions then converts the calibrated intensities into the two column densities whose ratio is the reported 1.22±0.02.

What would settle it

Recompute the CH2DOH partition function including nuclear spin statistics using the measured torsional energies, and reanalyze CH2DOH in IRAS 16293-2422 B with the same laboratory-measured line intensities; if either step moves the numbers by more than the quoted uncertainties—or pulls the comparison-source ratio down toward unity—the 1.22±0.02 contrast would not stand as stated.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that in the disk of the eruptive young star V883 Ori, the two singly deuterated isotopologues of methanol are almost equally abundant. Using 28 unblended optically thin CH2DOH lines and 31 unblended CH3OD lines, the authors obtain column densities of (5.14±0.08)×$10^{16}$ $cm^{-2}$ and (4.22±0.06)×$10^{16}$ $cm^{-2}$, giving CH2DOH/CH3OD = 1.22±0.02. This sits far below the statistical value of 3 and contrasts with the value ~22 in IRAS 16293-2422 B, the only other source for which CH3OD has been reanalyzed with the updated spectroscopy. The paper interprets the near-unity ratio as a sign that both isotopologues were made by a single D-addition event during CO hydrogenation on grains, without the H-abstraction/substitution chemistry that enriches the methyl group in cold dense cores; warm dust during the quiescent phase or an extra CH3OD formation channel such as H–D exchange with water could also explain it.

Load-bearing premise

The CH2DOH column density, and hence the 1.22 ratio, depends on a partition function whose nuclear-spin-statistics contribution is not known and was set to zero; if that contribution is non-negligible, the quoted ratio shifts by a factor that the error bars do not include.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The methanol in V883 Ori carries its deuterium nearly equally on the methyl and hydroxyl sites, so the deuterium enrichment is not methyl-weighted as in cold prestellar sources.
  • Column densities of CH2DOH derived from the older theoretical line intensities can be over- or underestimated by up to a factor of two depending on which transitions are used, so single-window surveys are unreliable for D/H ratios.
  • The CH2DOH-derived D/H ratio in V883 Ori is about three times lower than in IRAS 16293-2422 B, while the CH3OD-derived D/H ratio is several times higher, so the two isotopologues tell different stories about the source's chemical history.
  • If simple D-addition chemistry dominates, the observed ratio near unity requires no methyl-group enrichment mechanism; alternatively, an additional CH3OD formation route such as H–D exchange during warm-up must be invoked.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Reanalyzing CH2DOH in IRAS 16293-2422 B with the same laboratory-measured line intensities could turn the factor-of-18 contrast into a much smaller one; if so, part of the apparent source-to-source dichotomy would be a spectroscopic calibration effect.
  • The factor-of-two spread among narrow-window CH2DOH column densities derived from older theoretical intensities implies that archival single-window surveys of deuterated methanol should be treated with caution before being compared in D/H studies.
  • The proposed hydroxyl-site enhancement via H–D exchange with water makes a specific, testable prediction: sources with higher HDO/H2O should show lower CH2DOH/CH3OD, which can be checked with current ALMA capabilities.
  • Observing other outbursting, warm-disk sources should show CH2DOH/CH3OD near unity if warm quiescent dust suppresses methyl-group deuteration, rather than the >3 values seen in cold cores.
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Referee Report

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Summary. Zeng et al. use ALMA Band 6 ASSAY observations of V883 Ori, PC1-filtered spectra, and recently laboratory-measured CH2DOH line intensities (SUMIRE; Oyama et al. 2023) together with updated CH3OD spectroscopy (Ilyushin et al. 2024) to derive LTE column densities from 28 and 31 unblended, optically thin transitions, respectively. With T_ex fixed to 120 K, they obtain N(CH2DOH) = (5.14±0.08)×10^16 cm^-2 and N(CH3OD) = (4.22±0.06)×10^16 cm^-2, giving D/H ratios of (7.3±1.5)×10^-3 and (1.79±0.36)×10^-2, and a CH2DOH/CH3OD ratio of 1.22±0.02. This ratio is contrasted with the value of about 22 in IRAS 16293-2422B and with comet 67P, and it is interpreted as evidence that both singly deuterated methanol isotopologues form via simple D-addition chemistry, possibly with warm-dust suppression or additional CH3OD-forming H–D exchange in V883 Ori. The paper also compares column densities derived from the JPL catalogue and the new laboratory data, showing systematic differences of order 10–20 percent that depend on the chosen transition subset.

Significance. If the central ratio is robust, the result is significant: it would be one of the first measurements of CH2DOH/CH3OD below the statistical value of 3 in a protoplanetary-disk context, and it would challenge the picture in which methyl-group deuteration always dominates in low-mass star-forming sources. The analysis has clear strengths: the line selection is transparent and defensible (28 and 31 unblended optically thin transitions, including a-, b-, and c-type CH2DOH lines), the comparison between JPL and SUMIRE intensities is carefully done, and the main ratio is qualitatively insensitive to whether T_ex is fixed at 120 K or left free (1.22 versus about 1.17). The explicit use of laboratory-measured line intensities is a genuine advance over the standard JPL-based practice. However, the quoted uncertainties are purely statistical, and the headline ratio inherits an unquantified systematic from the adopted CH2DOH partition function, which the authors themselves flag in Section 2.2. The paper therefore presents an interesting and plausible result whose formal precision is overstated until that systematic is bounded.

major comments (2)
  1. [2.2 and Table 4] Section 2.2 explicitly states that the effect of nuclear spin statistics on the CH2DOH partition function is not well known and that this contribution was ignored, while Table 4 supplies the SUMIRE partition function used in the analysis. The central quantity of the paper, N(CH2DOH) = (5.14±0.08)×10^16 cm^-2, is obtained from an LTE fit in which the column density scales linearly with Q_tot(T_ex); the quoted uncertainty is the statistical fit error only. For a molecule with two equivalent methylene hydrogens, nuclear-spin statistical weights can change the relative populations of rotational-torsional states and hence the partition function by factors of order unity to several; even a 20 percent shift in Q would change N(CH2DOH) and the headline CH2DOH/CH3OD ratio by substantially more than the quoted ±0.02. Because the entire chemical interpretation in Section 4.3 rests on this ratio being close to unity and far below the statistical value of 3, the missing spin-statistics term is load-bearing. The authors should either compute the correction (for example from the SUMIRE line list or a high-level torsion-rotation calculation), or, at minimum, quote the ratio with a systematic uncertainty that includes a bounded estimate of this effect and temper the concluding statements accordingly.
  2. [3.2, 3.3, and Table 2] The headline column densities and ratio are quoted with T_ex fixed to 120 K, but the same data with T_ex left free give N(CH2DOH) = (4.3±0.3)×10^16 cm^-2 and N(CH3OD) = (3.68±0.11)×10^16 cm^-2, corresponding to CH2DOH/CH3OD ≈ 1.17 and best-fit excitation temperatures around 102–106 K rather than 120 K. These differences, which amount to roughly 16 percent in N(CH2DOH), 13 percent in N(CH3OD), and 4 percent in the ratio, are not reflected in the quoted uncertainties. Even though the qualitative conclusion (a ratio well below 3) is unchanged, the precision of the central claim is overstated. The paper should either adopt the free-T_ex values as the primary result or explicitly include the fixed-versus-free T_ex choice as a systematic uncertainty.
minor comments (5)
  1. [3.3] The text states that with T_ex free, N becomes (3.68±0.11)×10^16 cm^-1; the unit should be cm^-2.
  2. [References] Yun & Lee 2023a and Yun & Lee 2023b refer to the same paper (ApJ, 958, 113); the duplicate reference entries should be merged and the in-text citations distinguished appropriately.
  3. [1 and 4.2] There are several typographical errors, including 'theorectic' (Section 1), 'ad protostars' (Section 4.2), and 'this works' (Section 5); a careful proofreading pass is needed.
  4. [Figure 4 caption] The caption phrase 'beige, light brown, brown, and brick red denote deuteration in methyl and hydroxyl considering a CH2DOH/CH3OH ratio of 20, 3, 1, and 0.3' is grammatically unclear; please rephrase to state explicitly that the colors denote the four assumed CH2DOH/CH3OD ratios for comet 67P.
  5. [Abstract and 4.2] For CH2DOH the D/H ratio is divided by a statistical factor of 3, while for CH3OD it is not; a one-sentence note defining this convention would help avoid confusion, especially because the abstract gives both D/H ratios in close proximity.

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No circularity: the CH2DOH/CH3OD ratio is measured from ALMA LTE fits using independent laboratory spectroscopy; the acknowledged spin-statistics caveat is a systematic uncertainty, not a circular reduction.

full rationale

The central result, CH2DOH/CH3OD = 1.22±0.02, is obtained by LTE fitting of observed ALMA line intensities using laboratory-measured Sµ2 values from Oyama et al. (2023, SUMIRE) for CH2DOH and from Ilyushin et al. (2024) for CH3OD. There is no fitted parameter that is later renamed as a prediction, and no quantity is defined in terms of the target ratio. The D/H ratios relative to CH3OH use N(CH3OH) from Jeong et al. (2025), a companion paper with overlapping authorship, but that value is an external observational input and is not needed for the CH2DOH/CH3OD ratio itself; using it is standard practice, not circular. The paper explicitly discloses in Section 2.2 that the effect of nuclear spin statistics on the CH2DOH partition function is not well known and was ignored; this is an unquantified systematic uncertainty that could shift the absolute column density, but it does not make the derivation circular because the partition function is not fitted to the target result and the stated uncertainty is only statistical. No self-citation is invoked to forbid alternatives or to justify the central measurement. The comparison with IRAS16293B is an external benchmark, and the chemical interpretations are offered as hypotheses rather than as outputs forced by the fitting procedure.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The analysis is a re-measurement with updated spectroscopy and a catalog comparison. The main free parameters are the fixed excitation temperature, beam-filling factor, an inherited CH3OH column density, and the statistical correction factor. The assumptions center on LTE, optical thinness, the superiority of the SUMIRE intensities, the completeness of the CH2DOH partition function, and the fidelity of the PCA-filtered spectra. No new entities are introduced.

free parameters (4)
  • Excitation temperature T_ex = 120 K (fixed for the adopted results; free fits give 102-106 K for CH2DOH and 103 K for CH3OD)
    Used to derive the adopted column densities; changing from fixed 120 K to the free-fit values shifts CH2DOH from 5.1 to 4.3e16 cm^-2 and CH3OD from 4.22 to 3.68e16 cm^-2 (Sections 3.2-3.3, Table 2), yet only statistical errors are quoted.
  • Beam-filling factor = 0.384 arcsec
    Fixed to the value adopted for other COMs in J.-H. Jeong et al. (2025); it scales all column densities linearly.
  • CH3OH column density = N(CH3OH) = (2.35 +0.65/-0.24)e18 cm^-2
    Taken from the companion paper J.-H. Jeong et al. (2025) and used to convert CH2DOH and CH3OD column densities into D/H ratios; not re-derived here, and authored by overlapping team members.
  • Statistical correction factor for CH2DOH D/H = 3
    Converts CH2DOH/CH3OH to D/H by assuming equal probability per hydrogen site on methyl versus hydroxyl; if site-selective chemistry differs, the reported D/H values change.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption The molecular gas is in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) with a single excitation temperature.
    The SLIM/AUTOFIT models assume LTE (Section 3.2); non-LTE effects would change the derived column densities.
  • domain assumption The selected lines are unblended and optically thin (tau <= 0.3).
    Optical-depth and blending corrections are not applied (Sections 3.2-3.3); strong blending or tau near 0.3 could bias intensities.
  • domain assumption The SUMIRE laboratory S-mu^2 values are more accurate than the JPL catalog values for CH2DOH.
    This is the premise of the method, inherited from T. Oyama et al. (2023), a co-authored paper; no independent validation is presented in this work.
  • domain assumption The Oyama et al. (2023) partition function for CH2DOH is complete, with nuclear spin statistics neglected.
    Section 2.2 explicitly flags the nuclear spin statistics contribution as not well known; an error here scales the CH2DOH column density.
  • domain assumption The PC1-filtered spectra preserve the full complex organic molecule emission and the absolute flux calibration.
    The analysis uses the PC1-filtered spectra of H.-S. Yun and J.-E. Lee (2023b) over the ~0.3 arcsec emission region; any distortion in the filter changes all inferred intensities.

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abstract

Deuterium fractionation, as studied through mono-deuterated methanol, is frequently used as a diagnostic tool to trace the physical conditions and chemical evolution of interstellar sources. This study investigates methanol deuteration in the disk around V883 Ori, utilising recent laboratory spectroscopic data for CH$_2$DOH and CH$_3$OD along with ALMA observations. The derived column densities for CH$_2$DOH and CH$_3$OD are (5.14$\pm$0.08) $\times $10$^{16}$ cm$^{-2}$ and (4.22$\pm$0.06) $\times$ 10$^{16}$ cm$^{-2}$, respectively. The analysis demonstrates the influence of spectroscopic data on determining molecular column density, excitation temperature, and, most importantly, the inferred D/H ratio. The D/H ratio for CH$_2$DOH is calculated to be (7.3$\pm$1.5) $\times$ 10$^{-3}$ after applying a statistical correction, whilst the D/H ratio for CH$_3$OD is (1.79$\pm$0.36) $\times$ 10$^{-2}$. The discovery of an unexpectedly low CH$_2$DOH/CH$_3$OD ratio (1.22$\pm$0.02) in V883 Ori, however, raises further questions about the synthesis and chemical processes involved in CH$_3$OD formation. Overall, this study underscores the importance of accurate spectroscopic data for studies of isotopic fractionation and provides new insights into methanol deuteration chemistry in star-forming regions. Future research, combining updated spectroscopy and chemical modelling, will help further constrain these processes across different masses and evolutionary stages.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Unblended and optically thin (τ ≤0.3) transitions of CH2DOH detected in V883 Ori. The observed spectra are plotted as grey histograms in the order of increasing frequency. Assuming the same excitation temperature (Tex=120 K), radial velocity (νLSR), linewidth (FWHM=3.0 km s−1 ), and beam-filling factor (0.384′′), the result of the best LTE fit using spectroscopic data from JPL and SUMIRE is shown in grey dashed line… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Unblended and optically thin transitions of CH3OD detected in V883 Ori. The observed spectra are plotted as grey histograms in the order of increasing frequency. The best LTE fit by fixing Tex-120 K is shown in red line and the overall fitting i.e. by including the contribution from all other molecular species detected in V883 Ori in J.-H. Jeong et al. (2025), is in purple line. The quantum numbers and value of Eu o… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Derived CH2DOH column density by using differ￾ent detected transitions at various frequency ranges between 216 and 264 GHz in V883 Ori. The frequency ranges are set by roughly mimicking the spectral windows which are typi￾cally used in observation setup (e.g. F. Fontani et al. 2015; E. Bianchi et al. 2017; J. Ospina-Zamudio et al. 2019). The number in each bracket indicate the number of transitions included in the c… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The D/H ratio determined in water and methanol, inferred from CH2DOH, CH3OD, HDO, and CHD2OH, towards the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B (purple) (M. V. Persson et al. 2013; J. K. Jørgensen et al. 2018), the disk around the Class I/II outbursting star V883 Ori (bl…

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