Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 2007
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HST Proposal ID #11121. Cycle 16
Physics
Scientific paper
The Trifid nebula has recently been of much interest because of its identification with a large number of massive protostars, as well as young stellar objects. HH 399 is one of the most spectacular Herbig-Haro flows recognized to be irradiated by the UV flux of the massive O7.5 star in the Trifid nebula. The irradiated jet, which is propagating in a fully ionized medium, contains numerous knots along the jet and also shows evidence for a number of isolated knots running immediately outside the jet. Two different HST observations of the nebula, with different scientific goals, were carried out in 1997 and 2002, having sensitivities that differed by a factor of 10. We performed preliminary proper motion measurements of the jet based on these observations and discovered a continuous velocity structure of the bright knots of about 230 km/sec. Here we propose four WFPC2 orbits to reobserve HH 399 in order to carry out accurate proper motion measurements over the full extent of the jet, based on observations spanning more than 10 years and having equally deep sensitivity. The proposed observations are not simply a repeat of previous measurements, as this will be the first highly accurate proper motion measurement of an irradiated jet based on two identical epochs of WFPC2 observations. The observations will improve the accuracy of proper motion measurements for HH 399 by more than a factor of five and will address important questions beyond our preliminary result. Currently measured velocity differences between the jet features are barely significant. The factor of 5 increase in accuracy will establish the evidence for deceleration along the jet and the lateral motion of the jet. In addition, these measurements will address the kinematics of individual entrained and isolated blobs of the jet as it propagates into an HII region associated with the nebula. This is the last opportunity to perform this experiment before WFPC2 is removed from HST.;
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