Composite image showing nested morphology of disk winds emissions of protoplanetary disk HH30. (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Composite image showing nested morphology of disk winds emissions of protoplanetary disk HH30.

Caption

This composite RGB image of one of the sources described in the paper (HH30) shows for the first time the nested morphology of disk winds with multiple tracers: Fe[II] emission (in blue) traces the fastest and most collimated component (the jet). The Fe[II] emission is nested inside a lower velocity hydrogen emission (green), which is itself nested inside an even slower carbon monoxide (J=2-1) emission (red). Fe[II] and hydrogen emissions were obtained with JWST/NIRSpec, while the carbon monoxide emission was observed by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) previously.

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Ilaria Pascucci et al.

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