Interacting Knots in Jets: Simulations vs. Observations
Abstract
Recent observations of stellar jets show time variability in the emission and velocity of the knots along the jets, on time scales of a few years [1, 2]. We compare results obtained by numerical simulations of protostellar jets with observations. The simulations include a detailed treatment of the evolution of ionic/atomic species, and the variability is assumed to be due to the interaction between knots with different shock speeds and densities.
- Publication:
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Protostellar Jets in Context
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-3-642-00576-3_69
- Bibcode:
- 2009ASSP...13..531D
- Keywords:
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- Physics