Experimental results to study astrophysical plasma jets using Intense Lasers

We will present our experimental characterization of a jet generation in vacuum using foam filled cone target and intense laser. The obtained results on shape, time evolution, temperature and density, are in good agreements with 2D simulations. We also compared these measurements with theory and astronomical observations. Further study, with ambient gas, simulating the interstellar medium, to evaluate its effect on the above plasma jet evolution have been performed. We will demonstrate the importance to implement several diagnostics to measure the required parameters to infer the dimensionless astrophysical numbers.