The chemical structure of young high-mass star-forming clumps: (II) parsec-scale CO depletion and deuterium fraction of $\rm HCO^+$

2020 
The physical and chemical properties of cold and dense molecular clouds are key to understanding how stars form. Using the IRAM 30 m and NRO 45 m telescopes, we carried out a Multiwavelength line-Imaging survey of the 70 $\mu$m-dArk and bright clOuds (MIAO). At a linear resolution of 0.1--0.5 pc, this work presents a detailed study of pc-scale CO depletion and $\rm HCO^+$ deuterium (D-) fractionation toward four sources (G11.38+0.81, G15.21-0.43, G14.49-0.13, and G34.74-0.12) included in our full sample. In each source with $\rm T<20$ K and $n_{\rm H}\rm\sim10^4$--$\rm 10^5\,cm^{-3}$, we compared pairs of neighboring 70 $\mu$m bright and dark clumps and find that: (1) The $\rm H_2$ column density and dust temperature of each source show strong spatial anti-correlation; (2) The spatial distribution of CO isotopologue lines and dense gas tracers such as 1--0 lines of $\rm H^{13}CO^+$ and $\rm DCO^+$ are anti-correlated; (3) The abundance ratio between $\rm C^{18}O$ and $\rm DCO^+$ shows a strong correlation with the source temperature; (4) Both the $\rm C^{18}O$ depletion factor and D-fraction of $\rm HCO^+$ show robust decrease from younger clumps to more evolved clumps by a factor of more than 3; (5) Preliminary chemical modeling indicates chemical ages of our sources are ${\sim}8\times10^4$ yr, which is comparable to their free-fall timescales and smaller than their contraction timescales, indicating that our sources are likely {dynamically and chemically young.
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