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Radiative cooling effects on reverse shocks formed by magnetised supersonic plasma flows
S. Merlini, J. D. Hare, G. C. Burdiak +15
We study the structure of reverse shocks formed by the collision of supersonic, magnetised plasma flows driven by an inverse (or exploding) wire array with a planar conducting obst…
Perpendicular subcritical shock structure in a collisional plasma experiment
D. R. Russell, G. C. Burdiak, J. J. Carroll-Nellenback +13
We present a study of perpendicular subcritical shocks in a collisional laboratory plasma. Shocks are produced by placing obstacles into the super-magnetosonic outflow from an inve…
An Imaging Refractometer for Density Fluctuation Measurements in High Energy Density Plasmas
J. D. Hare, G. C. Burdiak, S. Merlini +9
We report on a recently developed laser-probing diagnostic which allows direct measurements of ray-deflection angles in one axis, whilst retaining imaging capabilities in the other…
Interactions of magnetized plasma flows in pulsed-power driven experiments
L G Suttle, G C Burdiak, C L Cheung +11
A supersonic flow of magnetized plasma is produced by the application of a 1 MA-peak, 500 ns current pulse to a cylindrical arrangement of parallel wires, known as an inverse wire…
Ion heating and magnetic flux pile-up in a magnetic reconnection experiment with super-Alfvenic plasma inflows
L. G. Suttle, J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev +15
This work presents a magnetic reconnection experiment in which the kinetic, magnetic and thermal properties of the plasma each play an important role in the overall energy balance…
Counter-propagating radiative shock experiments on the Orion laser
F. Suzuki-Vidal, T. Clayson, G. F. Swadling +18
We present new experiments to study the formation of radiative shocks and the interaction between two counter-propagating radiative shocks. The experiments were performed at the Or…
Formation and Structure of a Current Sheet in Pulsed-Power Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments
J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, L. G. Suttle +16
We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfvénic.The intrinsically magneti…
Counter-propagating radiative shock experiments on the Orion laser and the formation of radiative precursors
T. Clayson, F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. V. Lebedev +18
We present results from new experiments to study the dynamics of radiative shocks, reverse shocks and radiative precursors. Laser ablation of a solid piston by the Orion high-power…
Anomalous Heating and Plasmoid Formation in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment
J. D. Hare, L. Suttle, S. V. Lebedev +15
We present a detailed study of magnetic reconnection in a quasi-two-dimensional pulsed-power driven laboratory experiment. Oppositely directed magnetic fields T), advected b…
Bow shock fragmentation driven by a thermal instability in laboratory-astrophysics experiments
F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. V. Lebedev, A. Ciardi +16
The role of radiative cooling during the evolution of a bow shock was studied in laboratory-astrophysics experiments that are scalable to bow shocks present in jets from young stel…
Experimental Studies of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets
F. Suzuki-Vidal, S. V. Lebedev, S. N. Bland +11
We present experimental results on the formation of supersonic, radiatively cooled jets driven by pressure due to the toroidal magnetic field generated by the 1.5 MA, 250 ns curren…