Cool Stars 14 - Submitted Abstract # 398
This version created on 23 October 2006

Observing YSO Outflows with LGSAO: Imaging Spectroscopy of a
Highly Collimated Bipolar Jet from LkHa 233

Marshall Perrin, UC Berkeley
James Graham, UC Berkeley

Studying the acceleration and collimation of jets launched from 
young stars requires high resolution observations of the immediate 
circumstellar environments. The arrival of integral field 
spectroscopy with laser guide star adaptive optics on 8-10 m 
telescopes has now opened the door to sensitive, high resolution 
studies of jets from the ground. We have recently conducted exploratory 
observations of several young stars using Keck Observatory's new 
integral field spectrograph OSIRIS. We detected jets around 2 of our 
4 targets, including a spectacular narrowly collimated jet around the 
Herbig Ae star LkHa 233. I present our observations of the structure 
and kinematics of this jet, and discuss the potential for LGSAO 
integral field spectroscopy to advance our understanding of jet 
properties across a wide range of stellar masses. 

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