Bibcode
DOI
Pardo, Juan R.; Cernicharo, José; Goicoechea, Javier R.; Guélin, Michel; Asensio Ramos, Andrés
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 661, Issue 1, pp. 250-261.
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2007
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54
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Description
We present the complete data set, model, and line identification of a
survey of the emission from the C-rich proto-planetary nebula CRL 618
performed with the IRAM 30 m telescope in the frequency ranges
80.25-115.75 GHz, 131.25-179.25 GHz, and 204.25-275.250 GHz. A selection
of lines from different species has been used in previous works to
derive the structure of the source, its physical conditions, and the
chemical abundances in the different gas regions. In this work, we have
used this information to run a global simulation of the spectrum in
order to check the consistency of the model and to ease the task of line
identification. The total number of lines that have a correspondence in
both data and model is ~3100, although quite often in this object many
lines blend into complex features, so that the model, which takes into
account line blending, is a key tool at this stage of the analysis. Of
all the lines that we have been able to label, ~55% of them belong to
the different forms of HC3N, and ~18% to HC5N. The
density of remaining unidentified features above the 3 σ limit is
only 1 per ~2.1 GHz (74 features), which is unprecedented in the
analysis of this type of large millimeter-wave line surveys.