Jet-driven outflow in ESO 420-G13

The wind morphology resembles a characteristic funnel shape, formed by a highly collimated filamentary emission at the base, likely tracing the jet propagation through a tenuous medium, until a bifurcation point at 440pc where the jet hits a dense molecular core and shatters, dispersing the molecular gas into several clumps and filaments within the expansion cone.

We also trace the jet in ionised gas within the inner ~340pc using the [NeII]12.8um line emission, where the molecular gas follows a circular rotation pattern. The wind outflow carries a mass of ~8x10^6^M_{sun}_ at an average wind projected speed of ~160km/s, which implies a mass outflow rate of ~14M_{sun}_/yr. Based on the structure of the outflow and the budget of energy and momentum, we discard radiation pressure from the active nucleus, star formation, and supernovae as possible launching mechanisms.