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Synchrotron emission has been recently detected from a few low-mass protostars suggesting the presence of energetic particles along the jets (Tychoniec et al., 2018, ApJ 852,18). This puzzling discovery may have important implications for the ionisation structure of the young stellar objects, the star and planet formation, and the chemistry. Here, we propose to map the 6 cm and 18 cm continuum emission along the jet of Ser-emb 8N. The source shows a high-degree of jet collimation and extremely-high velocity emission in CO 2-1 and SiO 5-4, and is likely to posses the non-thermal emission. These observations will allow us to test our model of local particle acceleration in protostellar jets and shed light on the energetic processes around low-mass protostars (Padovani et al. 2016, A&A 590, 8).

This data is part of the archive of VLBI data maintained by JIVE on behalf of the EVN, a network of radio telescopes located primarily in Europe and Asia, with additional antennas in South Africa. The EVN archive itself has the DOI https://doi.org/10.17616/R3Z197