Final Activity Report Summary - JETSET (Jet Simulations, Experiments and Theory)
10 European institutions were involved in the network, training 12 early-stage researchers pursuing PhD studies and five experienced researchers, i.e. postdoctoral fellows. JETSET organised a total of five week-long schools, a number of informal workshops and a closing international conference held in Rhodes, Greece. Some of the scientific highlights included the discovery of jets from young brown dwarfs, which are objects intermediate in mass between stars and planets, the generation of jets in the laboratory that replicated many of the features, such as shocks, degree of collimation and cooling, observed in young stellar object jets, three-dimensional codes that tested how jets were launched from accretion disks and observational support for the idea that jets carried away angular momentum from the disk, thereby allowing for accretion.
As a result of the JETSET Marie Curie research training network, many new inter-institutional links were formed. This resulted in an enormous number of European collaborations on existing and future space and ground based facilities and laboratory experiments, as well as in the use of high performance computing.