Bow shocks in water fountain jets

Gabor Orosz, José F. Gómez, Daniel Tafoya, Hiroshi Imai, José M. Torrelles, Ann Njeri Ngendo, Ross A. Burns
2017 Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union  
AbstractWe briefly introduce the VLBI maser astrometric analysis of IRAS 18043–2116 and IRAS 18113–2503, two remarkable and unusual water fountains with spectacular bipolar bow shocks in their high-speed collimated jet-driven outflows. The 22 GHz H2O maser structures and velocities clearly show that the jets are formed in very short-lived, episodic outbursts, which may indicate episodic accretion in an underlying binary system.
doi:10.1017/s1743921317009589 fatcat:d43ec4y6h5fttmdnxdebdu2yvu