scholarly journals Understanding Transients: Needs from the Laboratory Astrophysics Community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fryer ◽  
Shane Coffing ◽  
Suzannah Wood ◽  
Christopher Fontes ◽  
Todd Urbatsch
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Astrophysics

scholarly journals A laser experiment for studying radiative shocks in astrophysics

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. FLEURY ◽  
S. BOUQUET ◽  
C. STEHLÉ ◽  
M. KOENIG ◽  
D. BATANI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Pulse ◽  
Pulse Duration ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Laboratory Astrophysics ◽  
Laser Pulse Duration ◽  
Radiative Shocks ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
Laser Experiment ◽  
Similar Solutions

In this article, we present a laboratory astrophysics experiment on radiative shocks and its interpretation using simple modelization. The experiment is performed with a 100-J laser (pulse duration of about 0.5 ns) which irradiates a 1-mm3 xenon gas-filled cell. Descriptions of both the experiment and the associated diagnostics are given. The apparition of a radiation precursor in the unshocked material is evidenced from interferometry diagrams. A model including self-similar solutions and numerical ones is derived and fairly good agreements are obtained between the theoretical and the experimental results.

scholarly journals Short-pulse laser-driven x-ray radiography

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Brambrink ◽  
S. Baton ◽  
M. Koenig ◽  
R. Yurchak ◽  
N. Bidaut ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pulse Laser ◽  
Short Pulse ◽  
Incident Angle ◽  
Laboratory Astrophysics ◽  
Signal To Noise ◽  
High Quality ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Short Pulse Laser ◽  
Short Pulse Lasers

We have developed a new radiography setup with a short-pulse laser-driven x-ray source. Using a radiography axis perpendicular to both long- and short-pulse lasers allowed optimizing the incident angle of the short-pulse laser on the x-ray source target. The setup has been tested with various x-ray source target materials and different laser wavelengths. Signal to noise ratios are presented as well as achieved spatial resolutions. The high quality of our technique is illustrated on a plasma flow radiograph obtained during a laboratory astrophysics experiment on POLARs.

scholarly journals From ICF to laboratory astrophysics: ablative and classical Rayleigh–Taylor instability experiments in turbulent-like regimes

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 032002 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Casner ◽  
C. Mailliet ◽  
G. Rigon ◽  
S.F. Khan ◽  
D. Martinez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Taylor Instability ◽  
Laboratory Astrophysics ◽  
Rayleigh Taylor Instability
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