Carbon Chain Chemistry in Hot-Core Regions around Three Massive Young Stellar Objects Associated with 6.7 GHz Methanol Masers

Kotomi Taniguchi, Eric Herbst, Liton Majumdar, Paola Caselli, Jonathan C. Tan, Zhi-Yun Li, Tomomi Shimoikura, Kazuhito Dobashi, Fumitaka Nakamura, Masao Saito

We have carried out observations of CCH (N=1−0), CH3CN (J=5−4), and three 13C isotopologues of HC3N (J=10−9) toward three massive young stellar objects (MYSOs), G12.89+0.49, G16.86--2.16, and G28.28--0.36, with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope. Combined with previous results on HC5N, the column density ratios of N(CCH)/N(HC5N), hereafter the CCH/HC5N ratios, in the MYSOs are derived to be ∼15. This value is lower than that in a low-mass warm carbon chain chemistry (WCCC) source by more than one order of magnitude. We compare the observed CCH/HC5N ratios with hot-core model calculations (Taniguchi et al. 2019). The observed ratios in the MYSOs can be best reproduced by models when the gas temperature is ∼85 K, which is higher than in L1527, a low-mass WCCC source (∼35 K). These results suggest that carbon-chain molecules detected around the MYSOs exist at least partially in higher temperature regions than those in low-mass WCCC sources. There is no significant difference in column density among the three 13C isotopologues of HC3N in G12.89+0.49 and G16.86-2.16, while HCC13CN is more abundant than the others in G28.28--0.36. We discuss carbon-chain chemistry around the three MYSOs based on the CCH/HC5N ratio and the 13C isotopic fractionation of HC3N.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12993