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YUS13 - Widespread Methanol Emission from the Galactic Center: The Role of Cosmic Rays

Short title: Yusef-Zadeh et al. (2013)
Authors: Yusef-Zadeh, F. Cotton, W. Viti, S. Wardle, M. Royster, M.
Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 764, Issue 2, article id. L19, 7 pp. (2013).
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Target type: Galaxy_center,First_detection
Transitions: CH3OH_36(I)

Abstract
We report the discovery of a widespread population of collisionally excited methanol J = 4_-1 to 3₀ E sources at 36.2 GHz from the inner 66' � 18' (160 � 43 pc) of the Galactic center. This spectral feature was imaged with a spectral resolution of 16.6 km s^-1 taken from 41 channels of a Very Large Array continuum survey of the Galactic center region. The revelation of 356 methanol sources, most of which are maser candidates, suggests a large abundance of methanol in the gas phase in the Galactic center region. There is also spatial and kinematic correlation between SiO (2-1) and CH₃OH emission from four Galactic center clouds: the +50 and +20 km s^-1 clouds and G0.13-0.13 and G0.25 + 0.01. The enhanced abundance of methanol is accounted for in terms of induced photodesorption by cosmic rays as they travel through a molecular core, collide, dissociate, ionize, and excite Lyman Werner transitions of H₂. A time-dependent chemical model in which cosmic rays drive the chemistry of the gas predicts CH₃OH abundance of 10^-8 to 10^-7 on a chemical timescale of 5 � 10⁴ to 5 � 10⁵ years. The average methanol abundance produced by the release of methanol from grain surfaces is consistent with the available data. eprintid: arXiv:1301.3101

Abstract

We report the discovery of a widespread population of collisionally excited methanol J = 4_-1 to 3₀ E sources at 36.2 GHz from the inner 66' � 18' (160 � 43 pc) of the Galactic center. This spectral feature was imaged with a spectral resolution of 16.6 km s^-1 taken from 41 channels of a Very Large Array continuum survey of the Galactic center region. The revelation of 356 methanol sources, most of which are maser candidates, suggests a large abundance of methanol in the gas phase in the Galactic center region. There is also spatial and kinematic correlation between SiO (2-1) and CH₃OH emission from four Galactic center clouds: the +50 and +20 km s^-1 clouds and G0.13-0.13 and G0.25 + 0.01. The enhanced abundance of methanol is accounted for in terms of induced photodesorption by cosmic rays as they travel through a molecular core, collide, dissociate, ionize, and excite Lyman Werner transitions of H₂. A time-dependent chemical model in which cosmic rays drive the chemistry of the gas predicts CH₃OH abundance of 10^-8 to 10^-7 on a chemical timescale of 5 � 10⁴ to 5 � 10⁵ years. The average methanol abundance produced by the release of methanol from grain surfaces is consistent with the available data. eprintid:

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DSS colored	2MASS colored	WISE colored
SDSS color	IRAC color I1,I2,I4	GLIMPSE 360
PACS color (70-160 um)	SPIRE color (250-500 um)	NVSS (1.4GHz)
ATLASGAL 870 um	ATLASGAL 870 um + Planck	Bolocam 1.1 mm
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