Imaging X-Ray Microjets from T Tauri Stars

Details Imaging X-Ray Microjets from T Tauri Stars Imaging X-Ray Microjets from T Tauri Stars

Sep 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008cxo..prop.2530g&link_type=abstract

Chandra proposal ID #10200113

Computer Science

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Although many classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) drive bipolar jets, very little is known about the high-energy aspects of these outflows. Recently, two X-ray jets have been discovered from the microjet-driving T Tauri star DG Tau. Both jets are very soft X-ray sources and coincide with the optically visible, much cooler atomic jets. Although faint X-ray sources have also been identified for a few protostellar Herbig-Haro flows, CTTS offer the advantage of an unobscured view down to the star. A spectral anomaly reported for several microjet-driving CTTS (the presence of a strong, constant soft component) suggests that X-ray jets may be common in these objects. We aim at verifying this hypothesis. X-ray jets are potentially important for disk ionization, heating, and chemical processing.

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