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most citedPlasma flows during the ablation stage of an over-massed pulsed-power-driven exploding planar wire array

6 citations · 13 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.plasm-ph2026

Delayed current sheet formation due to an external field in pulsed-power-driven reconnection experiments

T. W. O. Varnish, G. V. Dowhan, M. Chen +8

We present results from pulsed-power-driven magnetic reconnection experiments, in which we drove two exploding wire arrays in parallel to produce colliding plasma flows with anti-p…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field I: The deepest Herschel image of the submillimetre Universe

Chris Pearson, Thomas W. O. Varnish, Xinni Wu +4

We present the image maps, data reduction, analysis and the first source counts from the Herschel SPIRE Dark Field. The SPIRE Dark Field is an area of sky near the North Ecliptic P…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

The Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field -- II. A P(D) fluctuation analysis of the deepest Herschel image of the submillimetre universe

Thomas W O Varnish, Xinni Wu, Chris Pearson +2

The Herschel-SPIRE Dark Field is the deepest field produced by the SPIRE instrument pushing down below the galaxy confusion limit in each of the 250, 350, 500 m bands. Standard…

physics.plasm-ph2024

Quadrupolar Density Structures in Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments with a Guide Field

T. W. O. Varnish, J. Chen, S. Chowdhry +10

Magnetic reconnection is a ubiquitous process in plasma physics, driving rapid and energetic events such as coronal mass ejections. Reconnection between magnetic fields with arbitr…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 6 cited

Plasma flows during the ablation stage of an over-massed pulsed-power-driven exploding planar wire array

R. Datta, J. Angel, J. B. Greenly +10

We characterize the plasma flows generated during the ablation stage of an over-massed exploding planar wire array, fielded on the COBRA pulsed-power facility (1 MA peak current, 2…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 5 cited

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…