Spectroscopy of Stellar Jets, Outflows, and Young Stellar Objects with the Infrared Space Observatory

Abstract

The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was an extremely successful european space mission that gave us an unparallel view of the Universe in the infrared, and provided us with hundreds of observations of star forming regions and bipolar outflows. Three of the instrument teams, in charge of the infrared camera (CAM) and the two spectrometers at short and long wavelengths (SWS and LWS respectively), used a significant fraction of their guarantee time to study YSOs and outflows spectroscopically. In here, I will briefly review some of their main findings, particularly the detection of water, H2 rotational emission lines and the presence of other complex molecules. I will present new spectroscopic results on HH 1-2, HH 7-11 and Cep E, and their sources. And finally, I will discuss some of the general trends derived from these observations and their relevance in understanding the emission from these objects using J and C shock models.