A model of Photon Dominated Region(PDR) for the UV-heated outflow walls in the embedded protostellar objects

  • Lee, Seok-Ho (Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Jeong-Eun (Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Park, Yong-Sun (Astronomy Program, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2012.04.03

Abstract

We have developed an self-consistent PDR model to synthesize warm CO lines of Herschel/PACS observations more accurately. The PDR model solves the FUV continuum radiative transfer, gas energetics, and chemistry simultaneously. A local FUV radiation flux is calculated by using a Monte Carlo method taking anisotropic scattering into account. A new (r, ${\delta}$) coordinate system was used, where the r is the distance from the origin and the ${\delta}$ is z/$R^2$ in the cylindrical coordinate of (R,z). This is an adequate coordinate system to represent a power-law density of an envelope and a high spatial resolution near the outflow wall. The gas enegetics and chemistry are solved locally and considered $10^4K$ blackbody radiation field instead of the interstellar radiation filed. This newly developed model can be used to analyze quantitatively the effect of UV-heated outflow walls on the warm molecular lines in the embedded proto-stellar objects.

Keywords