On the relationship between molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide abundances in molecular clouds
The most usual tracer of molecular gas is line emission from CO. However, the reliability of this tracer has long been questioned in environments different from the Milky Way. We study the relationship between H2 and CO abundances using a fully dynamical model of magnetized turbulence coupled to a c...
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Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2011, Jahrgang: 412, Heft: 1, Pages: 337-350 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17907.x |
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| 520 | |a The most usual tracer of molecular gas is line emission from CO. However, the reliability of this tracer has long been questioned in environments different from the Milky Way. We study the relationship between H2 and CO abundances using a fully dynamical model of magnetized turbulence coupled to a chemical network simplified to follow only the dominant pathways for H2 and CO formation and destruction, and including photodissociation using a six-ray approximation. We find that the abundance of H2 is primarily determined by the amount of time available for its formation, which is proportional to the product of the density and the metallicity, but insensitive to photodissociation. Photodissociation only becomes important at extinctions under a few tenths of a visual magnitude, in agreement with both observational and prior theoretical work. On the other hand, CO forms quickly, within a dynamical time, but its abundance depends primarily on photodissociation, with only a weak secondary dependence on H2 abundance. As a result, there is a sharp cut-off in CO abundance at mean visual extinctions AV≲ 3. At lower values of AV, we find that the ratio of H2 column density to CO emissivity XCO∝A−3.5V. This explains the discrepancy observed in low metallicity systems between cloud masses derived from CO observations and other techniques such as infrared emission. Our work predicts that CO-bright clouds in low metallicity systems should be systematically larger or denser than Milky Way clouds, or both. Our results further explain the narrow range of observed molecular cloud column densities as a threshold effect, without requiring the assumption of virial equilibrium. | ||
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