Is FS Tau B Driving an Asymmetric Jet?

Details Is FS Tau B Driving an Asymmetric Jet? Is FS Tau B Driving an Asymmetric Jet?

2012-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1487v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

14 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ. Aspect ratio changes for Fig.1c

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FS Tau B is one of the few T Tauri stars that possess a jet and a counterjet as well as an optically-visible cavity wall. We obtained images and spectra of its jet-cavity system in the near-infrared H and K bands using Subaru/IRCS and detected the jet and the counterjet in the [Fe II] 1.644 \mu m line for the first time. Within the inner 2" the blueshifted jet is brighter, whereas beyond ~ 5" the redshifted counterjet dominates the [Fe II] emission. The innermost blueshifted knot is spectrally resolved to have a large line width of ~ 110 km/s, while the innermost redshifted knot appears spectrally unresolved. The velocity ratio of the jet to the counterjet is ~ 1.34, which suggests that FS Tau B is driving an asymmetric jet, similar to those found in several T Tauri Stars. Combining with optical observations in the literature, we showed that the blueshifted jet has lower density and higher excitation than the redshifted counterjet. We suggest that the asymmetry in brightness and velocity is the manifestation of a bipolar outflow driving at different mass-loss rates, while maintaining balance of linear momentum. A full explanation to the asymmetry in the FS Tau B system awaits detail modeling and further investigation of the kinematic structure of the wind-associated cavity walls.

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