Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013

Poster 1K043

Massive Jets from High-Mass YSOs

Caratti o Garatti, Alessio (Max Planck for Radio Astronomy)
Stecklum, Bringfried (Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg)
Linz, Hendrik (Max Planck for Astronomy)
Garcia Lopez, Rebeca (Max Planck for Radio Astronomy)
Sanna, Alberto (Max Planck for Radio Astronomy)

Abstract:
Protostellar jets from high-mass young stellar objects (HMYSOs; M≥8M) provide an excellent opportunity to understand the mechanisms responsible for high-mass star formation. However, the sample of known high-mass protostellar jets is still limited and the jet physical properties are not well known. We present our ongoing near-infrared imaging (H2, 2.12 um) and spectral (1-2.5 um) survey of jets from a sample of HMYSOs. By using H2 narrow-band imaging (Sofi/NTT, NICS/TNG), we aim at verifying the shocked nature of 120 EGOs (Extended Green Objects) detected with Spitzer (Cyganowski et al. 2008), because the EGO origin is not clear (e.g. Takami et al. 2012). Among these 120 EGOs, we indentify jets/outflows with a 44% success rate (Stecklum et al. 2009). In addition, several jets/outflows from previously unknown HMYSOs were detected in this survey (Stecklum et al. in prep.). The morphology of the H2 emission generally differs from that of the 4.5 μm excess, suggesting different excitation conditions. Through IR low-resolution spectroscopy (Sofi/NTT, R~600) we also derive the physical properties of 16 bright massive jets (Caratti o Garatti et al. in prep.), relating them with those of their driving sources (with Lbol~10^2-10^5 Lsun). As for the low-mass jets (Caratti o Garatti et al. 2006, 2008), we derive a clear correlation between the HMYSO bolometric luminosity (Lbol) and the jet H2 luminosity (LH2), extending this relationship over 6 order of magnitudes in the Lbol range (from 0.1 to 10^5 Lsun).

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