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Molecular Astrophysics in Star-forming Regions with the Odin Satellite

2006· dissertation· en· W2141366829 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
C. M. Persson

Bibliographic record

VenueChalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology) · 2006
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAstrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyStarsStar formationSupernovaInterstellar mediumMolecular cloudGalaxyCOSMIC cancer database
DOInot available

Abstract

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The interstellar medium is the cradle of life, stars and planets in the evolving Universe. Stars are born deep inside cold and dark molecular clouds, and affect the dynamical conditions in local regions by powerful winds, outflows, and by supernova explosions. Optical light from star-formation is trapped within the clouds because of absorption by dust grains. However, radiation is able to escape through the gas and dust in the infrared and radio spectral regions. In addition, the chemical evolution of molecules is very sensitive to temperature, density and radiation field. Thus, radio and submm observations of molecules are an excellent probe of both the physical and chemical conditions in star-forming regions and the interstellar medium in general. Some important molecules are difficult to observe with ground-based telescopes due to the Earth's obscuring atmosphere. Hence observations from space are necessary in these spectral regions. The launch of the Odin* satellite in 2001, enabled observations of molecular oxygen and the ground-state water transition that traces shocks and star-formation. One of the big unanswered questions in astronomy is the origin of structure. During the cosmic Dark Ages after the Big Bang, the Universe evolved from uniformity to the structures of galaxies, clusters, and voids that we observe today. Direct observations from the Dark Ages are most commonly believed to be impossible. But our aim in the search for the Primordial molecules is exactly this - to perform observations of resonant spectral lines from the cosmic Dark Ages. To study the conditions in a star-forming region, including an unbiased search for new molecules, a spectral line survey has been performed toward the Orion KL massive star-forming region. We have observed 347 spectral lines from 38 molecules including isotopologues, while 19% of the lines remain unidentified. Six water lines are detected including the water isotopologues H217O, H218O and HDO. The total emission is dominated by CO, H2O, SO2, SO, 13CO and CH3OH. Species with the largest number of lines are CH3OH, (CH3)2O, SO2, 13CH3OH, CH3CN and NO. *Odin is a Swedish-led satellite project funded jointly by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the National Technology Agency of Finland (Tekes) and Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES). The Swedish Space Corporation was the prime contractor and also is responsible for the satellite operation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.795
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.173 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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