Hot Corino Chemistry in the Class I Binary Source Ser-emb 11

Abstract

We report the detection of more than 120 emission lines corresponding to eight complex organic molecules (COMs; CH 3 OH, CH 3 CH 2 OH, CH 3 OCH 3 , CH 3 OCHO, CH 3 COCH 3 , NH 2 CHO, CH 2 DCN, and CH 3 CH 2 CN) and three isotopologues (CH 2 DOH, 13 CH 3 CN, and CH 3 C 15 N) toward the western component of the Ser-emb 11 binary young stellar object using observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array at ∼1 mm. The complex organic emission was unresolved with a ∼0.″5 beam (∼220 au) in a compact region around the central protostar, and a population diagram analysis revealed excitation temperatures above 100 K for all COMs, indicating the presence of a hot corino. The estimated column densities were in the range of 10 17 −10 18 cm −2 for the O-bearing COMs, and three orders of magnitude lower for the N-bearing species. We also report the detection of H 2 CO and CH 3 OH emission in a nearby millimeter source that had not been previously cataloged. Ser-emb 11 is classified in the literature as a Class I source near the Class 0/I cutoff. The estimated COM relative abundances in Ser-emb 11 W and the other three Class I hot corino sources reported in the literature are consistent with those of Class 0 hot corinos, suggesting a continuity in the chemical composition of hot corinos during protostellar evolution.