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4. Main results of the survey and discussion

The main results of our long-slit spectroscopic survey of the FELs of TTSs are summarized in Table 2 (click here) and Fig. 22 (click here).

For each TTS studied Table 2 (click here) shows the spatial properties (offset and width) and kinematical properties (radial velocity and velocity dispersion) of the indiviual FELs on both sides of the outflow (if bipolar). Furthermore, if possible, the spatial and kinematic properties are listed separately for the LVC and HVC. However, in several cases it has not been possible to resolve spectroscopically these two components mostly because their internal velocity dispersion is larger than their separation in radial velocity. Furthermore it is not clear in several cases whether we observe a LVC or a HVC. It will always be difficult to distinguish a LVC from a HVC resulting from a jet which is located close to the plane of the sky. In these cases we have printed all entries of Table 2 (click here) between the corresponding columns of the HVC and LVC (see also comments to individual objects). We note that the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 line, if present, is regarded as a reliable indicator that a HVC indeed exists since all available [NII] intensity profiles suggest that this line probably never exhibits a LVC. In addition it is known from Hartigan et al. (1995) that many TTSs with small IR excesses (tex2html_wrap_inline3766) probably have a LVC only. The objects printed in bold face in Table 2 (click here) are those for which the most detailed information is available and for which the outflow direction is known (from direct imaging and/or from long-slit spectroscopy) and which are closeby (usually at distances of 150 pc, except V536 Aql, which is at 200 pc). There are three more objects listed in Table 2 (click here) for which the outflow direction is known (FS Tau B, Bretz 4 and AS 353 A) but which are not printed in bold face, because either they are more distant and hence a derivation of their spatial properties makes little sense due to our limited spatial resolution or the central star is too faint to provide a reliable spatial reference for the determination of the offset and the spatial resolution (e.g. FS Tau B).

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Figure 20: Position-velocity maps of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612, [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 and [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 lines of V536 Aql extracted from data taken with the 4.2 m ISIS Cassegrain spectrograph in September 1993 (tex2html_wrap_inline3032). The stellar continuum has been subtracted. This subtraction could not be carried out perfectly for the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 line due to the presence of the strong tex2html_wrap_inline2728 line wing. Contours, relative positions and velocities as in Fig. 1 (click here)

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Figure 21: Spatial width (top part), spatial offset (middle part) and spatially integrated intensity (lower part) of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612, [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 and [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 line emission of V536 Aql as a function of the radial velocity (tex2html_wrap_inline3032). The dotted line in the plots of the spatial width indicates the lower limit for which changes in width with velocity can be reliably measured. The radial velocity has been measured relative to the stellar velocity. The data are extracted from the continuum-subtracted position-velocity maps displayed in Fig. 20 (click here)

In Fig. 22 (click here) we show the profiles of the FEL profiles of all studied TTSs. In all cases, the data with the highest spectral resolution available are printed. These profiles are obtained by spatially integrating the data on the long-slit spectrograms. For comparison we also show the tex2html_wrap_inline2728 line, which is in most cases much broader than the FELs and often shows a different line profile structure.

4.1. Spatial properties

Many of the TTSs in Table 2 (click here) show spatially extended FEL regions on a 1'' scale, especially in the HVC (see also below). This is one of our main results which was not expected a decade ago. Of the 38 TTSs listed in Table 2 (click here) we have derived information on the spatial properties of the FELs in 33 cases. A total of 27 TTSs of this sample show at least one FEL with an emission centroid which is spatialIy offset from the stellar position. In the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 line the spatial offset of the high-velocity gas can reach values up to a few arcsec. Typical values are 0.3'' to 1.0''. For the spatial width the values range from the smallest measurable values (tex2html_wrap_inline3802; depending on the seeing and the S/N ratio) up to 2.9''. Typical values are 0.8'' to 1.5''.

In order to derive more detailed information on the spatial properties of the FELs it is important to compare the spatial properties of the different emission lines and the different properties between the high-velocity and low-velocity gas. We will perform that comparison mainly on the basis of those 12 TTSs studied in greatest detail (i.e. for those TTSs printed in bold face in Table 2 (click here)). We will first compare the properties of their HVCs. If the existence of a well separated HVC is not clearly evident in the line profiles, e.g. if it is blended with a LVC, we will compare the spatial width and offset at velocities typical for the HVC (tex2html_wrap_inline3810) or if the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 line is detected at the velocity of this line. (As already mentioned above, the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 line never shows a LVC but only forms a HVC). Comparing the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612, [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 and the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 lines it turns out that in general the spatial width and offset of the high-velocity gas is largest in [NII] and smallest in [OI]. In the following we will give more detailed information on this important result: In all 12 TTSs the measured offsets in [SII] are larger by a typical factor of 2 - 4 than in [OI]. However, the offsets in [NII] are larger than in [SII]. From the 9 cases for which both [SII] and [NII] data are available (counting each side of a bipolar flow separately) 7 cases show offsets in [NII] clearly larger than those in [SII] by a typical factor of 1.5 - 2, while 2 cases show similar offsets.

With regard to the spatial widths it has been found also that the values are smallest in [OI] and largest in [NII] and [SII]. However, in [NII] and [SII] similar widths have been obtained in most cases. Due to the fact that the spatial width cannot be measured that accurately (see also Sect. 2) any small differences between [NII] and [SII] will not be detectable in our data. In 11 of the 13 cases with available data on the spatial width, the values in [SII] are larger by a factor of 1.5 - 3 than those in [OI] and similar values have been obtained in the remaining 2 cases. From 10 cases where both [NII] and [SII] data are available similar values have been measured in 5 cases. In 3 cases the spatial width is larger in [NII] than in [SII] (by a factor of 1.3 to 2.0) and in 2 cases it is smaller than in [SII] (by a factor of 2). Note again that each side of a bipolar flow is counted as an individual case.

A comparison of the spatial properties of the HVC and LVC is more difficult since among the 12 most well studied TTSs only 3 stars (CW Tau, DG Tau and V536 Aql) show sufficiently separated HVCs and LVCs which can be individually studied with the medium resolution 3.5 m Cassegrain twin spectra. In order to include also the remaining 9 TTSs in our study we compare in these stars the spatial width and offset of the high-velocity gas (with radial velocities of tex2html_wrap_inline3828) with the
properties of the gas around the stellar velocity. For the sake of simplicity we will designate in the following comparison the emission from the gas at high and low velocity "HVC'' and "LVC'', respectively. Since in [NII] no LVC is observed this comparison is only useful for [OI] and [SII]. As expected from previous studies (e.g. Hirth et al. 1994a) in most cases the HVC shows a much larger offset and spatial width. In [OI] the offset of the HVC is significantly larger by a factor 2 - 3 than that of the LVC in 8 out of the 10 cases with available data. Similar values of the offset have been obtained for the remaining 2 cases. In [SII] in all 9 cases with available data the offset in the HVC is larger than that in the LVC (typically by a factor of 2 - 4).

Comparing the spatial properties of the LVC between the [OI] and [SII] lines, the same trend as for the HVC is observed. In all 11 cases with available data the offset in [SII] is larger than in [OI] by typically a factor of 2. The typical spatial offsets of LVCs are 0.2'' in the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 line. The spatial widths of the LVC are in [SII] also larger than in [OI] by a factor of about 2.

These results on the spatial properties of the HVC and LVC of the studied FELs are not surprising, since similar data have been obtained in previous detailed studies on CW Tau (Hirth et al. 1994a) and DG Tau (Solf & Böhm 1994). These authors show that the gas in the HVC and LVC can have quite different excitation conditions and also different spatial properties (see also Hamann 1994). However our much larger sample shows that these differences in the spatial properties of the HVC and LVC are a general property of TTSs and not just a peculiarity of a few individual objects. Like in the above mentioned studies of CW Tau and DG Tau, we interpret the HVC and LVC in the context of a model proposed by Kwan & Tademaru (1988, 1995). According to this model, the HVC forms in a well-collimated high-velocity jet (tex2html_wrap_inline3838) while the LVC forms in a more compact region with intrinsically much smaller flow speeds which may result from a disk wind or a disk corona.

As shown more quantitatively by Hamann (1994) the gas in the LVC is generally of higher density and lower excitation than the gas in the HVC. This also explains why the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline3174, 6583 lines never form a LVC but only a HVC. Why the spatial offset of the HVC is largest in [NII] and smallest in [OI] can easily be explained if the density in the jets is decreasing and the excitation is increasing with increasing distance from the star. For a jet with diverging stream lines (e.g. with constant opening angle; see also below) a decreasing density with increasing distance is rather obvious, but why the electron temperature is increasing is unclear (i.e. it is unclear why the shock velocities increase with distance). Nevertheless if the jets from TTSs have such properties near the source (i.e. at distances of the order of 100 AU to several 100 AU), it is quite clear that the jets will appear most compact in [OI] which samples the densest gas due to its high critical density (tex2html_wrap_inline3842), while the jets will appear much larger in [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2600, 6731 since for these lines the critical density tex2html_wrap_inline3846 is about 100 times smaller than in [OI]. Since the [NII] line samples gas of even lower densities and higher excitation the jets are expected to appear most extended in these lines.

We like to mention that the LVC of [SII] can be spatially resolved in many objects and has a small but significant offset (typically 0.2'') from the source. This is also evident in a detailed study of DG Tau by Solf & Böhm (1994) and CW Tau by Hirth et al. (1994a) where the offset of the LVC is increasing with increasing blueshift of the low-velocity gas. All these results have certainly important implications for any detailed model of the FEL gas in TTSs.

The bipolar jets which give rise to spatially resolvable FEL regions for closeby TTSs (tex2html_wrap_inline3850) often display apparent lenghts of only 100 - 500 AU. However, these lenghts probably do not represent the true physical lenghts of the jets (which in some of the "classical'' outflow sources extend up to about 1 pc) but probably only the brightest region in which forbidden line emission can be detected (see below). It should be pointed out that previous studies have already shown that some spatially extended jets, like the ones from HH 30 or HL Tau (see Mundt et al. 1990), strongly decrease in their surface brightness with increasing distance from the source. Such a behaviour can be reasonably explained by the following considerations. Let us assume that the jet can be approximated by a homogenously filled cone at a given distance r from the star and tex2html_wrap_inline3856, say tex2html_wrap_inline3858. Since tex2html_wrap_inline3860 holds for a cone of constant opening angle and since the emission measure per unit length of this cone is tex2html_wrap_inline3862 (for tex2html_wrap_inline3864) the brightness Ij(r) of a spatially unresolved jet will be tex2html_wrap_inline3868. This means, that if tex2html_wrap_inline3870 is constant and tex2html_wrap_inline3864 the brightness of a cone-like jet with a constant opening angle should strongly decrease with increasing distance from the source and therefore only the brightest regions will be detectable.

Interestingly, only 12 out of a sample of 27 TTSs with spatially extended FEL regions are known to be associated with a reflection nebula. This means that the TTSs in our sample have on average much fainter and smaller reflection nebulae than the "classical'' outflow sources associated with HH objects and HH jets (cf. Mundt et al. 1987). In the latter sample, nearly all sources are associated with reflection nebulae detectable on the POSS or on continuum-light CCD images. These differences can probably be explained by evolutionary effects, with the classical HH object and jet sources representing a sample of on average younger stars than the CTTSs listed in Table 2 (click here) and therefore many of the HH jet sources are still associated with dense gas and dust from remnants of their parental molecular cloud.

Recent HST images of objects like HH 30 or HL Tau (Stapelfeldt et al. 1995; Ray et al. 1996; Burrows et al. 1996) have shown that YSOs can be associated with rather compact reflection nebulae which appear stellar-like on ground-based images. If there are such bright reflection nebulae with sizes < 1'' around many CTTSs in our sample then scattering of the light from the FEL regions may affect significantly the determined spatial and kinematic properties in some cases (see also Noriega-Crespo et al. 1991). In HL Tau, for example, the LVC has a similar spatial width as the HVC (1'' at FWHM). In this case this result can probably be explained by the fact that one does not observe in the optical the star itself but rather its very compact reflection nebula only since the star itself is highly obscured by the circumstellar dust. Therefore the position derived from the continuum spectrum of the star will not be representative of the true stellar position. Light scattering may also explain why some [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profiles have a broad red wing as observed e.g. for CW Tau and several other CTTSs (Hirth et al. 1994a). This would be the case if the scattering dust would "see'' the blueshifted jet as a receeding jet (i.e. if the scattering dust would be located between the star and that region producing most of the blueshifted forbidden line emission of the jet). We note that these broad red wings have been interpreted by Hirth et al. (1994a) in terms of rotation in the formation region of the LVC. The light scattering considered here is a reasonable alternative interpretation.

Several of our investigated sources are double stars (DD Tau, T Tau, XZ Tau, UY Aur and V536 Aql) separated by less than 1'' (e.g. Leinert et al. 1993;
Ghez et al. 1993, Ageorges et al. 1994). This appears to be an important result and suggests that also TTSs in double or multiple systems with small separations (tex2html_wrap_inline3882 AU) form jets. Since the subset of known binaries in that separation range is very small we have not investigated any possible correlation between the properties of the flow and the binary systems (e.g. between the position angle of the binary and the outflow direction). Certainly future HST observations would be helpful to answer various interesting questions (e.g. which of the two components of the binary is responsible for the jet, or do both components show individual outflows, or how well aligned are the outflows from both components).

4.2. Spectral properties

About 25% of the TTSs of our sample show only the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2596, 6363 lines in the investigated wavelength range (tex2html_wrap_inline3886) for a detection limit of tex2html_wrap_inline3888. In the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line a clearly recognizable double-peaked line profile has been observed in about 50% of the TTSs in our sample of 33 objects with high S/N [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profiles. For comparison, in the sample of Hartigan et al. (1995), which contains 32 stars and which is of similar or even higher spectral resolution, this fraction was about 43%. Note that our sample includes about half the objects of the sample of Hartigan et al. (1995) and that both samples have been more or less picked on a random basis. Whether the TTSs showing only a single velocity component in their [OI] lines have different physical conditions in their FEL regions is unclear. As already outlined above there are several reasons why both components could be blended into one component, even for a sufficiently large spectral resolution. For 3 stars in our sample (FN Tau, DO Tau and RW Aur) the LVC was only observed in the [OI] lines but not in the [SII] lines. The same is the case for a few stars in the sample of Hartigan et al. (1995) and Hamann (1994), namely CI Tau, DK Tau, DL Tau, HM Lup, AS 353 A and SCrA. Since in all these stars the HVC is detected in both the [OI] lines and [SII] lines a much higher density (and/or lower excitation) is indicated for the LVC as compared to the HVC, at least in these stars, but probably in a large fraction of the TTSs (see Hartigan et al. 1995).

For 40% of the investigated objects we have detected the [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 line. In the sample of Hartigan et al. (1995) this fraction was 37%. Apparently this fraction does not depend much on the detection limit since the detection limit of Hartigan et al. (1995) for FELs has been about 3 times higher than in our study.

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Table 2. (See following pages) Spatial and kinematical properties of the FEL regions of the studied TTSs. In the case of known bipolar outflows, the values are quoted separately for the blueshifted and redshifted part of the outflow. The kinematical data listed are derived from the spectra with the highest spectral resolution available (see also Fig. 22 (click here)). Uncertain values are quoted in parentheses. Note that in several cases it has not been possible to resolve the two velocity components or it is not clear whether the data represent a LVC or a HVC with small radial velocities. In these cases all entries are inserted in Table 2 (click here) between the corresponding columns of the HVC and LVC (see also comments to individual objects). Columns: (1) Object number in survey. (2) Number in the Herbig & Bell (1988) catalogue. (3) Name of the object; printed in bold face for closeby (tex2html_wrap_inline3896) and most well studied objects with known outflow direction. (4) Number of campaign (see Table 1 (click here)). (5) Investigated FEL. (6) Position angle (PA) of the outflow derived either from direct imaging or long-slit spectroscopy. (7) PA of the long-slit spectrogram from which the quoted spatial data have been derived. The PA is given for the blueshifted forbidden line emission. (8) and (9) Radial velocity of the HVC and LVC relative to the stellar velocity. (Asterisks denote heliocentric velocities). (10) and (11) Velocity dispersion (FWHM) of the HVC and LVC corrected for the instrumental profile. (12) and (13) Spatial offset of the emission centroid of the HVC and LVC relative to the stellar position. (14) and (15) Spatial width (tex2html_wrap_inline2680) of the HVC and LVC corrected for the spatial resolution (see Sect. 2). (16) and (17) Equivalent width of the HVC and LVC derived from Gaussian fitting to these two components. (18) Total equivalent width. Note that is some cases this value is not always the sum of the individual values of the HVC and LVC due to the non Gaussian profile of these components. (19) An asterisk indicates that remarks on the TTS are available

Remarks to Table 2 (click here)

FM Tau: Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3900 is visible. It is unclear whether this low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or is emission from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on (see also Fig. 22 (click here)a).

FN Tau: The LVC in the [SII] lines is only marginally indicated (see also Fig. 22 (click here)a).

CW Tau: All values are taken from Hirth et al. (1994a) where this object is discussed in detail. The counterjet in tex2html_wrap_inline3902 displays radial velocities between +50 und tex2html_wrap_inline3522.

DD Tau: The values given in Table 2 (click here) are from Neckel & Staude (1993). In the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profile (see Fig. 22 (click here)b) the two components of the bipolar outflow are not resolved but apparently only the blueshifted side of the bipolar outflow has been detected in the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 and [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 lines.

CZ Tau: The low S/N ratio of the obtained spectrogram does not allow detailed kinematical and spatial studies. The possible presence of a blueshifted and redshifted emission component in the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profile (see Fig. 22 (click here)b) has to be confirmed by deeper spectra.

RY Tau: The LVC is visible only in [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 (see Fig. 22 (click here)c). The two possible components listed in Table 2 (click here) for the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 line are derived from a two-component Gaussian fit to the profile.

FS Tau B: The kinematic data are based on a long-slit spectrogram published by Eislöffel & Mundt (1997).

FS Tau A: Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3920 has been detected (see also Fig. 22 (click here)d). It is unclear whether this low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or if it originates from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on. However, the detection of [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 emission strongly argues in favour of the presence of a HVC, since we are not aware of any star where a true LVC also shows [NII] emission. Recent studies of Eislöffel & Mundt (1997) of the FS Tau A & B regions show that within a few arcsec from FS Tau A and at the position of FS Tau A there is extended HH emission. This emission probably results from a poorly collimated wind from FS Tau B when this wind hits the edges of a cavity. It is conceivable that at least part of the observed emission in FS Tau A is actually resulting from that extended HH emission. This would also explain the rather small line widths observed in the FELs of FS Tau A.

T Tau: All values are taken from Böhm & Solf (1994), where this rather complex object is discussed in detail.

DG Tau: All values are taken from Solf & Böhm (1993), where this object is discussed in detail.

Haro 6-10: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.1.

DH Tau: Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3924 is visible (see also Fig. 22 (click here)e). It is unclear whether this low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or if it is emission from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on. The small offset of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 emission of +0.2'' argues more in favour of a HVC.

HL Tau: This object has been studied in detail by Mundt et al. (1990). From HST observations of Stapelfeldt et al. (1995) and Ray et al. (1996) it is known that the star itself is not directly observable in the optical, but only its bright compact reflection nebula. Since all measured spatial quantities refer to the centroid of the registered continuum emission of the reflection nebula, the quoted offset values do not represent the offset with respect to the stellar position. Also the values for the spatial width are probably altered due to the presence of the reflection nebula.

XZ Tau: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.2.

UZ Tau E: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.3.

GH Tau : A broad emission line wing extending up to tex2html_wrap_inline2842 has been detected in the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line (see Fig. 22 (click here)g). The value of tex2html_wrap_inline3934 for the radial velocity of the HVC is derived from a Gaussian fit to this broad blueshifted emission.

HN Tau: In none of the FEL profiles of this star are two components directly evident, but as discussed in the text (see Sect. 3.4) there are indirect arguments for the presence of both a LVC and a HVC derived from the observed [NII] line profile. The listed radial velocities and velocity dispersions for the HVC and LVC of the [OI] and [SII] lines are the result of a two-component Gaussian fit to the profiles of these two lines (see also Fig. 22 (click here)h).

AA Tau: Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3936 is visible. It is unclear whether this low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or originates from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on. However, the presence of [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 emission at tex2html_wrap_inline3940 strongly argues that at least part of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 emission results from a HVC, since we are not aware of any star where a pure LVC also shows [NII] emission (see also Fig. 22 (click here)i).

DO Tau: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.5.

DP Tau: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.6.

DQ Tau: It is unclear, whether the observed emission component seen in [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 and [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 at about tex2html_wrap_inline2658 is a LVC or is a HVC of a jet seen nearly edge-on (see also Fig. 22 (click here)j).

DR Tau: The values for the spatial offset are near the detection limit. This is also the reason why it is hard to determine the outflow direction from the obtained long-slit spectrogram. Probably the outflow direction is towards the direction of the HH object found by Mundt & Eislöffel (1997) along tex2html_wrap_inline3950. There might be another emission component between the HVC and the LVC of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line at tex2html_wrap_inline3954 (see also Fig. 22 (click here)k).

UY Aur: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.7.

RW Aur: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.8.

HS Ori: Due to the relatively high radial velocity of the [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line of tex2html_wrap_inline3958, we believe that most of the emission originates in a HVC (see also Fig. 22 (click here)l).

VZ Ori: Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3960 is visible (see also Fig. 22 (click here)l). It is unclear whether this low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or if the emission originates from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on. However, the large K-L value of 1.66 (Cohen & Kuhi 1979) favours more the interpretation of a HVC (for detailed arguments see Fig. 11 (click here) of Hartigan et al. 1995).

PU Ori: A very weak [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 emission at tex2html_wrap_inline3966 might be present (tex2html_wrap_inline3968; see also Fig. 22 (click here)m).

V510 Ori: Although only a single velocity component at relatively small radial velocities is visible in [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 (tex2html_wrap_inline3972) and [SII] (tex2html_wrap_inline3974), we believe that a significant portion of this emission results from a HVC (i.e. from a jet being nearly oriented in the plane of the sky). The main arguments for that interpretation are the presence of [NII] emission and the large line width (see also Fig. 22 (click here)m).

LkHtex2html_wrap_inline3976 313: A very broad [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 emission (tex2html_wrap_inline3980) is observed for this object. The emission peaks at tex2html_wrap_inline3982 (see also Fig. 22 (click here)n). Maybe we observe, like for DD Tau a bipolar outflow whose two sides are not spectroscopically resolvable due to large internal line widths.

Bretz 4: This object is the source of a HH jet (HH 271-273) and has been first imaged in the [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2600, 6731 lines by Carballo & Eiroa (1992). The [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profile shows a LVC centered at tex2html_wrap_inline3988 and a very broad blueshifted wing of high-velocity emission extending to nearly tex2html_wrap_inline3990 (see also Fig. 22 (click here)n). This high-velocity emission is approximately centered at tex2html_wrap_inline3992 (tex2html_wrap_inline3994).

V481 Mon: Due to the faintness of the star, the S/N ratio of the data obtained is very low. Only a single velocity component with tex2html_wrap_inline3996 is visible (see also Fig. 22 (click here)n). It is unclear whether the observed low-velocity emission results from a true LVC or if it originates from a high-velocity jet seen edge-on.

NX Mon: A very broad [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 emission (tex2html_wrap_inline4000) is observed for this object (see also Fig. 22 (click here)o). The emission peaks at tex2html_wrap_inline4002. Maybe we observe, like for DD Tau, a bipolar outflow whose two sides are not spectroscopically resolvable due to large internal line widths.

AS 353 A: The extended bipolar outflow from this TTS traced by HH objects (HH 32 A-D) has been discussed in detail by Mundt et al. (1983), Hartigan et al. (1986), Solf et al. (1986) and recently by Davis et al. (1996). A [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 line profile of the star has been published by Hartigan et al. (1995). In addition to a slightly blueshifted LVC at tex2html_wrap_inline4006 a broad blueshifted high-velocity emission is observed, which extends up to tex2html_wrap_inline4008 (see Fig. 22 (click here)o). For the intermediate velocities at tex2html_wrap_inline3548 the emission centroid is shifted +0.3'' relative to the source and the spatial width is about 1''. For the [SII]-lines no spectra have been secured because these lines are extremely weak (tex2html_wrap_inline4016 of [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2766 equals 0.08 Å, Hartigan et al. 1995).

V536 Aql: This object is discussed in detail in the text; see Sect. 3.9.

MacC sH15: The emission in [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 is only barely detectable (tex2html_wrap_inline4022) and the listed kinematical data are relatively uncertain (see also Fig. 22 (click here)p).

Acknowledgements

We are indepted to the staff of the Calar Alto Observatory and the William Herschel Telescope for assistance during the various observing runs.

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Figure 22: Lines profiles of th [OI] tex2html_wrap_inline2612 , [NII] tex2html_wrap_inline2598 , [SII] tex2html_wrap_inline2606 lines and the tex2html_wrap_inline2728 line of all TTSs from our survey extracted from spectrograms taken with the 2.2 m coudé spectrograph (c), the 3.5 m Cassegrain twin spectrograph (T) and the 4.2 m ISIS Cassegrain spectrograph (I). The radial velocities (in km s-1) are relative to the stellar velocity except for HS Ori, Lktex2html_wrap_inline2728 313 and V481 Mon. For these stars heliocentric velocities are given. For all FEL profiles the continuum has been subtraced. For both the tex2html_wrap_inline2728 and FEL profiles the line intensity is normalized to the continuum.

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Figure 22: continued

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Figure 22: continued


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