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\section{Results}  \label{sect:results}  The last section already showed that for all parameters consistent with the theoretical and observational constraints the stellar wind is enclosed in a finite region by a shock front. This shock front generally reaches a maximum cylindrical radius of only several AUs, but a much larger height above the accretion disk. While a detailed numerical treatment of the post-shock cooling zone is beyond the scope of this work, the shape of the shock front indicates that the post-shock zone will also be rather narrow in $\omega$ \textbf{(Give densities to estimate cooling distance?)}. $\omega$.  The highest post-shock temperatures are generally reached at the base of the jet when the stellar wind encounters the inner disk rim or at large $z$ when the shock front intersects the jet axis. Thus, the position of the hottest post-shock cooling plasma must be very close to the jet axis. The temperature in our fiducial model stays just below 1~MK -- too little to explain X-ray emission in the jets (Fig.~\ref{fig:result}, solid red line), but small changes in the parameters, well within the observational and theoretical constraints, are sufficient to drive the maximal temperatures over 1~MK for a small fraction of the mass loss (other lines in the figure).