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Properties of Knots in Cooling Stellar Jets |
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| Authors: | F Rubini C Giovanardi S Lorusso F Leewin F Bacciotti |
| Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universitá di Firenze, Italy 2. Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy 3. INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy |
| Abstract: | Modelling the formation of the maximal emission regions in Herbig-Haro flows, the so-called ‘knots,’ remains a main challenge in the investigation of the YSO's outflows. Recent HST images of optical regions reveal their wide morphological variety. Knotty structures and arc-like regions coexist, suggesting that several mechanisms could be responsible for the global scenario. Arc-like emissions are probably due to other mini-working surfaces or non-axially symmetric interaction of the kinking jet matter with the external medium, while knots seen in SII] are mostly axially symmetric objects and may have a different origin. In this paper we show that a pattern of regularly spaced, knotty emission regions forms in stationary jets, with emissivity and kinematic features consistent with observations. To this purpose, numerical simulations of non-equilibrium, radiative, hydrodynamical jets in axial symmetric geometry have been performed. |
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