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We present high resolution observations in the starless dense molecular core L1512 performed with the Medicina 32m radio telescope. The resolved hfs components of HC3N and NH3 show no kinematic sub-structure and consist of an apparently symmetric peak profile without broadened line wings or self-absorption features suggesting that they sample the same material. The velocity dispersion is 101( ± 1) m s − 1for NH3 and 85( ± 2) m s − 1 for HC3N. The kinetic temperature of the cloud is estimated at 9.2 ( ± 1.2) K and the turbulence is of 76 m s − 1in a subsonic regime. This places L1512 among the most quiescent dark cores and makes it an ideal laboratory to study variations of the electron-to-proton mass ratio, \(\mu = {m}_{\mathrm{e}}/{m}_{\mathrm{p}}\) by means of observations of inversion lines of NH3 combined with rotational lines of other molecular species.
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Mignano, A., Molaro, P., Levshakov, S., Centurión, M., Maccaferri, G., Lapinov, A. (2011). Starless Cores as Fundamental Physics Labs. In: Martins, C., Molaro, P. (eds) From Varying Couplings to Fundamental Physics. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19397-2_16
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