Creation of animations of protostar jets using archived data from the ALMA telescope

Takuya Nakayama  (Kagoshima University)

It is known that protostars, baby stars that have not yet been born, are universally associated with the mass ejection phenomenon 'jets'. Jets are thought to play an intrinsically important role in determining the final mass of the born star. However, only a few previous studies have measured the motion of jets in real time. In this study, we use three years of archived data from the most nearby and fastest jet emitting protostar B335 to create an animation of the jet's real-time motion. This will reveal the motion of the jets in three-dimensional space and quantitatively discuss the impact of the jets on star formation.