The precession of the giant HH34 outflow: a possible jet deceleration mechanism

Details The precession of the giant HH34 outflow: a possible jet deceleration mechanism The precession of the giant HH34 outflow: a possible jet deceleration mechanism

2002-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208277v1

Astrophys.J. 580 (2002) 950-958

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 8 eps figs.,uses aaspp4; accepted by the ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/343797

The giant jets represent a fundamental trace of the historical evolution of the outflow activity over timescales which are comparable to the accretion time of the outflow sources in their main protostellar phase. The study of such huge jets provides the possibility of retrieving important elements related to the life of the outflow sources. In this paper, we study the role of precession (combined with jet velocity-variability and the resulting enhanced interaction with the surrounding environment) as a deceleration mechanism for giant jets using a numerical approach. We obtain predictions of H alpha intensity maps and position-velocity diagrams from 3D simulations of the giant HH 34 jet (including an appropriate ejection velocity time-variability and a precession of the outflow axis), and we compare them with previously published observations of this object. Our simulations represent a step forward from previous numerical studies of HH objects, in that the use of a 7-level, binary adaptive grid has allowed us to compute models which appropiately cover all relevant scales of a giant jet, from the ~ 100 AU jet radius close to the source to the ~ 1 pc length of the outflow. A good qualitative and quantitative agreement is found between the model predictions and the observations. Moreover, we show that a critical parameter for obtaining a better or worse agreement with the observations is the ratio rho_j/rho_a between the jet and the environmental densities. The implications of this result in the context of the current star formation models are discussed (ABRIDGED).

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