An intepretive ballistic model for quasi-symmetric bipolar jet systems
Abstract
We present an analytic, ballistic model for quasi-symmetric jet/counterjet systems, considering both the non-relativistic and the relativistic cases. The model considers the presence of ejection time and velocity asymmetries, which produce offsets between the positions of the knots in jet/counterjet pairs. A fit of the non-relativistic model predictions to observations of two quasi-symmetric HH outflows (HH 34 and HH 111) allows us to obtain the magnitudes of the ejection time and velocity asymmetries of these systems.
- Publication:
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Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
- Pub Date:
- October 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011RMxAA..47..289R
- Keywords:
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- Herbig-Haro objects;
- infrared: ISM;
- ISM: individual objects (HH 34;
- HH 111);
- ISM: jets and outflows;
- stars: formation