Spatially resolved velocity structure in jets of DF Tau and UY Aur A [SSA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01179


Young stars accrete mass and angular momentum from their circumstellar disks. Some of them also drive outflows, which can be distinguished in optical forbidden emission lines (FELs). We analyze a sample of binary T Tauri stars observed with long-slit spectroscopy by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), searching for spatially resolved outflows. We detect resolved [O I] emission in two cases out of twenty one. In DF Tau we resolve high and medium velocity outflows in a jet and counterjet out to 60 au. The outflows are accelerated within the inner 12 au and retain a constant speed thereafter. In UY Aur, we detect a blue- and a red-shifted outflow from UY Aur A, as well as a blue-shifted jet from UY Aur B. All of these features have been seen in [Fe II] with data taken ten years apart indicating that the underlying outflow pattern is stable on these timescales.

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A. Uvarova, H. Günther, D. Principe, et. al.
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Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, submitted to AJ