\documentstyle{preprint} \input pub.sty \begin{document} \title{PRECESSING JETS IN SUPERSOFT X-RAY SOURCES} \author{K.~A.\ Southwell,\thanks{Dept.\ of Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics Building, Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3RH, U.K.} M.\ Livio and J.~E.\ Pringle\thanks{Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, U.K.}\\ \\ Space Telescope Science Institute\\ \\ 3700 San Martin Drive\\ \\ Baltimore, MD 21218\\ \\ Email addresses: kas@astro.ox.ac.uk, mlivio@stsci.edu, jep@ast.cam.ac.uk} \pub{The Astrophysical Journal (Letters)} \maketitle \abstract{We show that the accretion disks in supersoft X-ray sources can, in principle, be unstable to radiation-induced warping. Moreover, we derive the expected precession timescale for those systems which exhibit jets, and we show that, whilst in the system RX~J0513.9-6951 the disk is expected to be stable against warping, in CAL~83 precession with a timescale of the older of a few months is expected. These findings are fully consistent with the presently available observational data.}