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2012ApJ...758L..10M - Astrophys. J., 758, L10 (2012/October-2)

Centimeter continuum observations of the northern head of the HH 80/81/80N jet: revising the actual dimensions of a parsec-scale jet.

MASQUE J.M., GIRART J.M., ESTALELLA R., RODRIGUEZ L.F. and BELTRAN M.T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present 6 and 20 cm Jansky Very Large Array/Very Large Array observations of the northern head of the HH 80/81/80N jet, one of the largest collimated jet systems known so far, aimed to look for knots farther than HH 80N, the northern head of the jet. Aligned with the jet and 10' northeast of HH 80N, we found a radio source not reported before, with a negative spectral index similar to that of HH 80, HH 81, and HH 80N. The fit of a precessing jet model to the knots of the HH 80/81/80N jet, including the new source, shows that the position of this source is close to the jet path resulting from the modeling. If the new source belongs to the HH 80/81/80N jet, its derived size and dynamical age are 18.4 pc and >9x103 yr, respectively. If the jet is symmetric, its southern lobe would expand beyond the cloud edge resulting in an asymmetric appearance of the jet. Based on the updated dynamical age, we speculate on the possibility that the HH 80/81/80N jet triggered the star formation observed in a dense core found ahead of HH 80N, which shows signposts of interaction with the jet. These results indicate that parsec-scale radio jets can play a role in the stability of dense clumps and the regulation of star formation in the molecular cloud.

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Journal keyword(s): Herbig-Haro objects - ISM: jets and outflows

Nomenclature: Table 1: [MRR93] NN (No. 34) added

Simbad objects: 15

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