Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-09-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 5 postscript figures, Accepted to the ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/304887
We present new narrow-band near-infrared images together with K band spectra of highly collimated bipolar jets close to the IRAS 05487+0255 source. The jets are located at 50" West of the Herbig-Haro 110 outflow. The jets are not visible at optical wavelengths, and therefore, do not fall into the `standard' Herbig-Haro object classification scheme. Nevertheless, they belong to an ever growing group of molecular hydrogen jets associated with YSOs which are optically undetected. The jets are very well collimated, with a length-to-width ratio of 10-20. The spectra of the jet and counter-jet in the K-band show a limited number of molecular hydrogen emission lines which makes it difficult to obtain an accurate excitation temperature. We estimate Tex = 1104+/-67 K and Tex = 920+/- 156 K for the red and blue jet components respectively. The radial velocities of the jet and counter-jet, based on the shift of the (1,0) S(1) 2.121 micron line, are -275+/- 50 km/s and 180+/- 50 km/s respectively, suggesting an angle of 30 to 45 degrees between the jet and the line of sight. The molecular hydrogen emission of the entire jet extends for at least 40" or 0.1 pc at the distance of Orion. If the flow velocity is comparable to that of the radial velocities, then the dynamical age of the system is quite short (about 500 yrs), consistent with a young jet arising from an embedded source. Entrainment in a turbulent mixing layer may explain this morphology and spectral character.
Bohm Karl-Heinz
Garnavich Peter
Noriega-Crespo Alberto
Raga Alejandro
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