SOFIA/EXES Observations of Warm H<sub>2</sub> at High Spectral Resolution. II. IC 443C, NGC 2071, and 3C 391 - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers
Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2024

SOFIA/EXES Observations of Warm H2 at High Spectral Resolution. II. IC 443C, NGC 2071, and 3C 391

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Using the EXES instrument on SOFIA, we have obtained velocity-resolved spectra of several pure rotational lines of H2 toward shocked molecular gas within three Galactic sources: the supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443 (clump C), a protostellar outflow in the intermediate-mass star-forming region NGC 2071, and the SNR 3C 391. These observations had the goal of searching for expected velocity shifts between ortho- and para-H2 transitions emitted by C-type shocks. In contrast in our previous similar study of HH7, the result of our search was negative: no velocity shifts were reliably detected. Several possible explanations for the absence of such shifts are discussed: these include a preshock ortho-to-para ratio that is already close to the high-temperature equilibrium value of 3 (in the case of IC 443C), the more complex shock structures evident in all these sources, and the larger projected aperture sizes relative to those in the observations of HH7.
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insu-04822419 , version 1 (06-12-2024)

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David A. Neufeld, Curtis Dewitt, Pierre Lesaffre, Sylvie Cabrit, Antoine Gusdorf, et al.. SOFIA/EXES Observations of Warm H2 at High Spectral Resolution. II. IC 443C, NGC 2071, and 3C 391. The Astrophysical Journal, 2024, 976, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ad83b7⟩. ⟨insu-04822419⟩
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