3 papers
physics.plasm-ph2020
Target Design for XUV Probing of Radiative Shock Experiments
U. Chaulagain, C. Stehlé, P. Barroso +4
Radiative shocks are strong shocks characterized by plasma at a high temperature emitting an important fraction of its energy as radiation. Radiative shocks are commonly found in m…
astro-ph.EP2018
Equation of state and optical properties of shock-compressed C:H:N:O molecular mixtures
M. Guarguaglini, J. -A. Hernandez, T. Okuchi +14
Water, ethanol, and ammonia are the key components of the mantles of Uranus and Neptune. To improve structure and evolution models and give an explanation of the magnetic fields an…
astro-ph.HE2018
Laboratory radiative accretion shocks on GEKKO XII laser facility for POLAR project
L. Van Box Som, E. Falize, M. Koenig +20
A new target design is presented to model high-energy radiative accretion shocks in polars. In this paper, we present the experimental results obtained on the GEKKO XII laser facil…