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In the course of objective prism surveys of dark clouds, Herbig (1950, 1951, 1952) and Haro (1952, 1953) discovered a number of small objects, which display characteristic emission line spectra of hydrogen and forbidden low excitation lines of mainly [OI], [NII] and [SII], with at most very weak continua. On direct photographic plates, Herbig and Haro found these objects to be tiny, almost semi-stellar nebulae, with a tendency to be located in groups, often aligned in strings of objects. Ambartsumian (1954) subsequently coined the term Herbig-Haro objects for these tiny nebulae. Prom their location in dark clouds often containing nebulous stars or the newly recognized T Tauri stars (cf. Joy 1942, Ambartsumian 1947), early researchers concluded that the HH objects were somehow related to the process of star birth.

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Reipurth, B., Raga, A.C. (1999). Herbig-Haro Flows. In: Lada, C.J., Kylafis, N.D. (eds) The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems. NATO Science Series, vol 540. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4509-1_8

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