Abstract

Molecular hydrogen emission lines are associated with collimated outflows from young stellar objects. They have been measured near Herbig–Haro objects within jets as well as at the jet termination. Similarly to HH objects, the lines are produced from radiative shocks which may be in the form of oblique internal jet shocks or bow shocks. A J-shock can only be invoked in a dynamical model context since the H2 lines are often wide (> 30 km s−1). The alternative is the MHD C–shock in which the ionisation level is sufficiently low so that the magnetic field and ions interact weakly with the neutrals. We have investigated C-shock flows by employing approximate forms for the ion-neutral drag, cooling and other processes with the following results.

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