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\citet{2009A&A...493..579G} shows that a mass loss below $10^{-10}$~M$_{\odot}$~yr$^{-1}$ is sufficient to explain the X-ray emission from the jet as shock heating.
We use $10^{-8}$~M$_{\odot}$~yr$^{-1}$ as fiducial stellar mass loss in the remainder of the article. This is only a fraction to the total mass loss of the system because the disk wind, though slower, operates over a much larger area and dominates the system's mass loss.
Figure~\ref{fig:dot_m} shows how a larger mass loss rate and therefore a higher density and ram pressure in the stellar wind pushes the shock front out to larger radii. The different shape of the shock front also influences the post-shock temperatures. In the high mass loss rate scenario (blue dash-dotted line) the shock front reaches its maximum radius at
a height of 60~AU and most of the spherically symmetric wind passes the shock front at shallow angles, so this scenario has the highest fraction of low temperature material.