摘要: The inheritance of material across the star and planet formation process is
traced by deuterium fractionation. We report here the first detection of doubly
deuterated methanol towards pre-stellar cores. We study the deuterium
fractionation of methanol, CH$_{3}$OH, towards two starless and two pre-stellar
cores. We derive a D/H ratio of 0.8-1.9$\%$ with CH$_{2}$DOH in pre-stellar
cores H-MM1 and L694-2, consistent with measurements in more evolved Class 0/I
objects and comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, suggesting a direct chemical link
arising in the pre-stellar stage. Furthermore, the column density ratios of
CHD$_{2}$OH/CH$_{2}$DOH are $\sim$50-80$\%$, consistently high as that towards
Class 0/I objects, indicating an efficient formation mechanism of CHD$_{2}$OH,
possibly through H atom additions to D$_{2}$CO. The CH$_{2}$DOH/CH$_{3}$OH and
CHD$_{2}$OH/CH$_{3}$OH column density ratios in the two pre-stellar cores are
larger than that in the two starless cores B68 and L1521E, representing an
evolutionary trend of methanol deuteration in early-stage cores.