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\citet{2009A&A...502..217M,2012A&A...545A..53M} also perform numerical simulations of a jet confined by a disk wind. Their simulations again deal with larger distances from the central star and they concentrate on knots in the jet. Yet, their bubbles of shock heated gas have very similar shapes compared with our results in Figure~\ref{fig:result}. This indicates that this form is robust.   Does the scenario of a stellar wind recollimation shock as X-ray source also apply to other CTTS or is it specific to DG Tau? While there is no reason to believe that the wind launching in DG~Tau is unique, it certainly presents us with a special viewing geometry, where the star itself is heavily absorbed, but the jet shock at 30~AU is visible. At the same time, the first knot in the jet that shows X-ray emission is located at 700~AU and thus can be clearly separated from the inner, presumably stationary emission. \citet{2011A&A...530A.123S} analyze three epochs of X-ray emission from HH~154 and see an inner stationary component and a variable component at slightly larger radii \textbf{\citep[see also][]{2011ApJ...737...54B}}. \citep[see also][]{2011ApJ...737...54B}.  However, there is no gap between both components and the small number of photons makes it difficult to quantify variability and proper motion. Also, the emission from HH~154 is more energetic and would require much larger wind velocities if it is due to a stellar wind recollimation shock. In other young stars with resolved X-ray emission, the central star is either visible and outshines any potential recollimation shock (e.g.\ HD~163296 \citep{2005ApJ...628..811S,2013A&A...552A.142G} or RY~Tau \citep{2014ApJ...788..101S}) or embedded so deep into the cloud that a wind shock at a few tens of AU would be completely absorbed \citep[e.g.\ HH80/81][]{2004ApJ...605..259P}. Thus, we cannot decide this question observationally, but it seems reasonable to assume that the same processes that lead to a recollimation shock in the stellar wind in DG~Tau, should also operate in other CTTS, even if less favourable conditions make it harder to observe in X-rays.