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Recent high-resolution and sensitivity ALMA observations have unveiled the carbon isotope ratios (^12C/^13C) of Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) in a low-mass protostellar source. To understand the ^12C/^13C ratios of COMs, we investigated the carbon isotope fractionation of COMs from prestellar cores to protostellar cores with a gas-grain chemical network model. We confirmed that the ^12C/^13C ratios of small molecules are bimodal in the prestellar phase: CO and species formed from CO (e. g. , CH₃OH) are slightly enriched in ^13C compared to the local ISM (by 10 \%), while those from C and C^+ are depleted in ^13C owing to isotope exchange reactions. COMs are mainly formed on the grain surface and in the hot gas (> 100 K) in the protostellar phase. The ^12C/^13C ratios of COMs depend on which molecules the COMs are formed from. In our base model, some COMs in the hot gas are depleted in ^13C compared to the observations. Thus, We additionally incorporate reactions between gaseous atomic C and H₂O ice or CO ice on the grain surface to form H₂CO ice or C2O ice, as suggested by recent laboratory studies. The direct C-atom addition reactions open pathways to form ¹3C-enriched COMs from atomic C and CO ice. We find that these direct C-atom addition reactions mitigate ^13C-depletion of COMs, and the model with the direct C-atom addition reactions better reproduces the observations than our base model. We also discuss the impact of the cosmic ray ionization rate on the ^12C/^13C ratio of COMs.
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Ryota Ichimura
Hideko Nomura
Kenji Furuya
The Astrophysical Journal
The University of Tokyo
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/68e61f46b6db6435875b1328 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad47ba
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