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HH 46/47: Also a parsec scale flow

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We report the discovery of a pair of large Herbig-Haro type structures roughly 10 arcminutes (1.3 pc) north-east and south-west of the source driving the well-known HH 46/47 Herbig-Haro jet in new deep emission-line images made using the Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPG La Silla 2.2-m telescope. These new images suggest that the HH 46/47 outflow is much more extensive than previously assumed, extending over a total of 2.6 pc on the sky, or over 3 pc in space, when deprojected. HH 46/47 thus also belongs to the recently-discovered class of giant Herbig-Haro flows.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9909357,
  title  = {HH 46/47: Also a parsec scale flow},
  author = {Thomas Stanke and Mark J. McCaughrean and Hans Zinnecker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9909357},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 eps figures, Latex, aa.cls included; accepted for publication in A&A Letters