HH24: A Jet Complex driven by a Young Multiple System
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James Webb Space Telescope General Observer Program-Cycle 2
Non PSI Personnel: John Bally (Collaborator, University of Colorado, Boulder), Alejandro Raga (Collaborator, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Megan Reiter (Collaborator, Rice University), Alberto Nirega-Crespo (Collaborator, Space Telescope Science Institute)
External Partners
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Rice University
- Space Telescope Science Institute
Project Description
NIRCam will be used to image a ~3 by 6 arcminute field covering the enMre HH 24 complex using a dithered grid using FULLBOX dither mode.
Shocks will be invesMgated using the two transiMons [FeII] 1.64 micron and Brackej-alpha 4.05 micron, which will be observed with the filters F164N and F405N. Since the region has significant reflecMon nebulosity it is necessary to do a background subtracMon using the filters F162M and F410M.
The narrow-band filters will be used to study shocks and the plasma morphology, while the medium-band filters will be used, in addiMon to background subtracMon, to idenMfy low-mass protostellar members of the small mulMple system embedded in the HH 24 cloud core.