Extragalactic jet interacting with a 3 Gyr AGB star at its highest mass-loss rate. The jet plasma is flowing in from the left. The global pressure maps depict a bow shock region established upstream of the contact discontinuity. The tracer of the jet mass fraction shows a sharp decrease at the contact discontinuity. The wake shows von Kármán-like vortices, which in three dimensions would evolve into downstream turbulence.
Wykes, Perucho, Jones et al., 2024, in prep.