Laboratory Astrophysics

Presentations

• Super-Alfv\'{e}nic Expansion of a Laser-Plasma through an Ambient Magnetized Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 9:30 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 9:42 AM

  Authors

  • Erik Everson

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Carmen Constantin

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Lucas Morton

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Derek Schaeffer

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Nathan Kugland

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Walter Gekelman

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Christoph Niemann

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Generation of intense magnetosonic waves by erupting laboratory simulations of solar coronal loops

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 9:42 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 9:54 AM

  Authors

  • Shreekrishna Tripathi

  • Walter Gekelman

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

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• Episodic Magnetic Tower Jets in Laboratory Experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 9:54 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 10:06 AM

  Authors

  • F. Suzuki-Vidal

    • Imperial College London

  • Sergey Lebedev

    • Imperial College London

  • S.N. Bland

    • Imperial College London

  • G. Burdiak

    • Imperial College London

  • J.P. Chittenden

    • Imperial College London

  • Gareth Hall

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College

  • A.J. Harvey-Thompson

    • Imperial College London

  • E. Khoory

    • Imperial College London

  • L. Pickworth

    • Imperial College London

  • George Swadling

    • Imperial College London
    • Imperial College

  • A. Ciardi

    • Ecole Normale Superieure

  • C. Stehle

    • Observatoire de Paris

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• Spike penetration in blast-wave-driven instabilities

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 10:06 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 10:18 AM

  Authors

  • Paul Drake

    • University of Michigan
    • U of Michigan
    • Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics, University of Michigan

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• Shock Wave Structure in a Fully Ionized Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 10:18 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 10:30 AM

  Authors

  • Thomas Masser

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • John Wohlbier

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Robert Lowrie

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Accelerating aluminum foils for shock wave experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 10:30 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 10:42 AM

  Authors

  • Stephan Neff

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Sandra Stein

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • David Martinez

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • Christopher Plechaty

    • University of Nevada, Reno

  • R. Presura

    • University of Nevada, Reno

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• Radiation effect and relaxation layer in electro-magnetically driven strong shock waves

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 10:42 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 10:54 AM

  Authors

  • Kotaro Kondo

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Mitsuo Nakajima

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Tohru Kawamura

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

  • Kazuhiko Horioka

    • Tokyo Institute of Technology

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• Structure in Radiative Shock Experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 10:54 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 11:06 AM

  Authors

  • F.W. Doss

    • University of Michigan

  • R.P. Drake

    • University of Michigan

  • H.F. Robey

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Measurements of Radiative Shock Properties using Thomson scattering

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 11:06 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 11:18 AM

  Authors

  • A. Visco

    • University of Michigan

  • R.P. Drake

    • University of Michigan

  • M.J. Grosskopt

    • University of Michigan

  • D.H. Froula

    • LLNL

  • S.H. Glenzer

    • LLNL

  • G. Gregori

    • University of Oxford

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• Laboratory Tests of Stellar Interior Opacity Models

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 11:18 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 11:30 AM

  Authors

  • J.E. Bailey

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • G.A. Rochau

  • S.B. Hansen

  • P.W. Lake

  • T.J. Nash

  • D.S. Nielsen

  • R.D. Thomas

    • Sandia

  • C.A. Iglesias

    • LLNL

  • J. Abdallah Jr.

  • M.E. Sherrill

    • LANL

  • J.J. MacFarlane

  • I.E. Golovkin

  • P. Wang

    • Prism

  • R.C. Mancini

    • UNR

  • C. Blancard

  • Ph. Cosse

  • G. Faussurier

  • F. Gilleron

  • J.C. Pain

    • CEA

  • A.K. Pradhan

  • S.N. Nahar

  • M. Pinsonneault

    • OSU

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• Radiation from plasmas with sub-Larmor scale magnetic fields -- generalized jitter radiation

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 11:30 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Mikhail Medvedev

    • University of Kansas

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• Fully relativistic form factor for Thomson scattering in umagnetized plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 11:42 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • John Palastro

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • J.S. Ross

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bradley Pollock

    • University of California, San Diego
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • University of California, San DIego

  • E.A. Williams

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • LLNL

  • Laurent Divol

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Dustin Froula

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • S.H. Glenzer

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Observation of relativistic, collective Thomson scattering from electron plasma waves

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 11:54 AM – Nov. 5, 2009, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • James Ross

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California, San DIego

  • S.H. Glenzer

    • LLNL
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Laurent Divol

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • John Palastro

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bradley Pollock

    • University of California, San Diego
    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    • University of California, San DIego

  • George Tynan

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California, San DIego

  • Dustin Froula

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Off-Hugoniot measurements for alpha-quartz

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 12:06 PM – Nov. 5, 2009, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Norimasa Ozaki

    • Graduate school of Engineering, Osaka University

  • Takayoshi Sano

  • Tsutomu Mashimo

  • Tomoaki Kimura

  • Kohei Miyanishi

  • Tommaso Vinci

  • Francis Ree

  • Takashi Endo

  • Tatsuya Jitsui

  • Mihcel Koenig

  • Ryosuke Kodama

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• A New Candidate for Magnetic Energy Dissipation in Neutron Star Binary Systems

  ORAL

  Nov. 5, 2009, 12:18 PM – Nov. 5, 2009, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Steven Bekhor

    • Michigan Plasma Physics Research Institute

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