A Deep Search For Complex Organic Molecules Toward The Protoplanetary Disk Of V883 Ori
Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) in the form of prebiotic molecules are potentially building blocks of life.
Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 7 observations in spectral scanning mode, we carried out a deep search for COMs within the disk of V883 Ori, covering frequency ranges of ∼ 348 – 366 GHz. V883 Ori is an FUor object currently undergoing an accretion burst, which increases its luminosity and consequently increases the temperature of the surrounding protoplanetary disk, facilitating the detection of COMs in the gas phase.
We identified 26 molecules, including 14 COMs and 12 other molecules, with first detection in this source of the molecules: CH3OD, H2C17O, and H213CO. We searched for multiple nitrogen-bearing COMs, as CH3CN had been the only nitrogen-bearing COM that has been identified so far in this source. We also detected CH3CN, and tentatively detect CH3CH2CN, CH2CHCN, CH3OCN, CH3NCO, and NH2CHO.
We compared the abundances relative to CH3OH with those in the handful of objects with previous detections of these species: the Class 0 protostars IRAS 16293-2422 A, IRAS 16293-2422 B and B1-c, the high-mass star-forming region Sagittarius B2 (North), the Solar System comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and the protoplanetary disk of Oph-IRS 48.
We report ∼ 1 to 3 orders of magnitude higher abundances compared to Class 0 protostars and ∼ 1 to 3 orders of magnitude lower abundances compared to the protoplanetary disk, Sagittarius B2 (North), and 67P/C-G. These results indicate that the protoplanetary disk phase could contribute to build up of COMs.
Abubakar M. A. Fadul, Kamber R. Schwarz, Merel L. R. van ‘t Hoff, Jane Huang, Jennifer B. Bergner, Tushar Suhasaria, Jenny K. Calahan
Comments: 42 pages, 27 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal (AJ)
Subjects: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Cite as: arXiv:2504.06005 [astro-ph.SR] (or arXiv:2504.06005v1 [astro-ph.SR] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.06005
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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adc998
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From: Abubakar Fadul
[v1] Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:15:46 UTC (7,810 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06005
Astrobiology, Astrochemistry,
