Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-10-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press (contains an appendix which is not in A&A)
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20042225
I reexamine recent observations of velocity profiles across jets blown by young stellar objects, and argue that the observations do not support the interpretation of jets rotating around their symmetry axes. Instead, I propose that the interaction of the jets with a twisted-tilted (wrapped) accretion disk can form the observed asymmetry in the jets' line of sight velocity profiles. The proposed scenario is based on two plausible assumptions. (1) There is an inclination between the jet and the outer parts of the disk; the jet is perpendicular to the inner part of the disk; Namely, there is a twisted-tilted (wrapped) disk. (2) The disk-jet interaction slows down the jet as the jet entrains mass from the disk, with larger decelaration of jet segments closer to the tilted disk. The proposed scenario can account for the basic properties of the observed velocity profiles, while having the advantage that there is no need to refer to any magnetic jet launching model, and there is no need to invoke jet rotation with a huge amount of angular momentum.
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