An X-Ray Jet from a White Dwarf - Detection of the Collimated Outflow from CH Cygni with Chandra

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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4 & a bit pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL; uses emulateapj.cls and revtex4. Minor changes following referees report, & shor

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10.1086/424925

Most symbiotic stars consist of a white dwarf accreting material from the wind of a red giant. An increasing number of these objects have been found to produce jets. Analysis of archival Chandra data of the symbiotic system CH Cygni reveals faint extended emission to the south, aligned with the optical and radio jets seen in earlier HST and VLA observations. CH Cygni thus contains only the second known white dwarf with an X-ray jet, after R Aquarii. The X-rays from symbiotic-star jets appear to be produced when jet material is shock-heated following collision with surrounding gas, as with the outflows from some protostellar objects and bipolar planetary nebulae.

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