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Nitrogen isotopic ratio across the Galaxy through observations of high-mass star-forming cores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2020

L. Colzi
Affiliation:
Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy
F. Fontani
Affiliation:
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy
V. M. Rivilla
Affiliation:
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy
A. Sánchez-Monge
Affiliation:
I. Physikalisches Institut of the Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
L. Testi
Affiliation:
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy ESO, Garching, Germany
M. T. Beltrán
Affiliation:
INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Florence, Italy
P. Caselli
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institüt für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
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Abstract

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There is a growing evidence that our Sun was born in a rich cluster that also contained massive stars. Therefore, the study of high-mass star-forming regions is key to understand our chemical heritage. In fact, molecules found in comets, in other pristine Solar System bodies and in protoplanetary disks, are enriched in 15N, because they show a lower 14N/15N ratio (100-150) with respect to the value representative of the Proto-Solar Nebula (PSN, 441 ± 6), but the reasons of this enrichment cannot be explained by current chemical models. Moreover, the 14N/15N ratio is important because from it we can learn more about the stellar nucleosynthesis processes that produces both the elements. In this sense observations of star-forming regions are useful to constrain Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models.

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Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2020

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