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The idea of a recollimation shock is not new.  \citet{1993ApJ...409..748G} discussed a similar idea as we do here, where they aim to explain the forbidden optical emission lines seen from CTTS with a shock due to the recollimation of the jet outflow. In contrast to our model, they attribute it to the shocked disk wind, not the stellar wind. However, a shocked disk wind cannot supply the high shock velocities to explain the resolved X-ray and \ion{C}{4} emission that we now see. Our model, a shocked stellar wind, is collimated because it is embedded into a strong disk wind. We expect that the low-temperature emission from the stellar wind is small compared to the low-temperature emission from the surrounding disk wind. Only for high temperatures (X-ray and FUV emission), the stellar wind will dominate because it is much faster.  \textbf{We now compare our work} to the simulations of \citet{2010A&A...511A..42B,2010A&A...517A..68B} \textbf{which use smooth velocity and density profiles for the jet with radii between 8 and 200~AU -- larger than almost all simulations shown in this article. \citet{2010A&A...517A..68B} find X-ray emission of varying luminosity around 100~AU from the central source in their simulations for the HH~154 jet and it is very likely that slightly different jet parameters can cause this feature to appear closer to the star. However, this emission is much weaker than the X-ray emission at larger scales in contrast to the situation in DG~Tau. Further simulations are required to test if realistic launching conditions can also make a quasi-stationary X-ray shock that outshines the knots at larger distances. Another possibility that can be tested in future simulations is that our picture of a wind-wind interaction can be combined with a time variable launching speed. At distances of only a few AU the stellar wind and the disk wind would interact and cause a stationary collimation shock as explained in this article. After passing through the shock, the stellar wind and the outer disk wind might mix, so that the jet appears could appear  more homogeneous at larger distances. If the intital launching velocity is time variable, not only will the properties of the recollimation shock change, but the velocity of the combined outflow would also vary and could thus cause moving shock fronts further out in the jet as in the simulations of \citet{2010A&A...511A..42B,2010A&A...517A..68B}. \citet{2011ApJ...737...54B} find a diamond-shaped shock and again it is very likely that slightly different jet parameters can cause this feature to appear closer to the star as seen in DG~Tau. }  \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.