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Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Disks and Jets of Taurus Young Stellar Objects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Karl Stapelfeldt
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Mail Stop 183-900, Pasadena CA 91109, USA
Christopher J. Burrows
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute
John E. Krist
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute

Abstract

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We report on Hubble Space Telescope imaging of eleven young stellar objects in the nearby Taurus molecular clouds. The high spatial resolution and stable point spread function of HST reveal important new details of the circumstellar nebulosity of these objects. Three sources (HH 30, FS Tau B, and DG Tau B) are resolved as compact bipolar nebulae without a directly visible star. In all three cases, jet widths near the sources are found to be 50 AU or less. Flattened disk structures are seen in absorption in HH 30 and FS Tau B, and in reflection about GM Aur. Extended envelope structures traced by scattered light are present in HL Tau, T Tau, DG Tau, and FS Tau. The jet in DG Tau exhibits a large opening angle and is already resolved into a bow-like structure less than 3″ from the star.

Type
IV. Disks, Winds, and Magnetic Fields
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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