High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics 2008

Introduction to High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics 2008.- Launching mechanisms of astrophysical jets.- Supersonic plasma jet interaction with gases and plasmas.- Formation of episodic magnetically driven radiatively cooled plasma jets in the laboratory.- Experimental results to study astrophysical plasma jets using Intense Lasers.- A jet production experiment using the high-repetition rate Astra laser.- Colliding plasma experiments to study astrophysical-jet relevant physics.- Spiral mode of standing accretion shock instability in core-collapse supernovae.- Image processing of radiographs in 3D Rayleigh-Taylor decelerating interface experiments.- Modeling of multi-interface, diverging, hydrodynamic experiments for the National Ignition Facility.- Shock waves in the large-scale structure of the Universe.- Analytical structure of steady radiative shocks in magnetic cataclysmic variables.- Classification of and recent research involving radiative shocks.- Simulations of the supersonic radiative jet propagation in plasmas.- Theoretical and numerical studies of the Vishniac instability in supernova remnants.- Design of jet-driven, radiative-blast-wave experiments for 10 kJ class lasers.- Laboratory experiments to study supersonic astrophysical flows interacting with clumpy environments.- Scaling laws for radiating fluids: the pillar of laboratory astrophysics.- Opacity effects on the polarization of line emissions in astrophysical plasmas.- Modelling, design and diagnostics for a photoionised plasma experiment.- To see the inside of a planet in a drop of deuterium.- Comparison of Jupiter interior models derived from first-principles simulations.- The role of high-pressure experiments on determining super-Earth properties.- Using the Rayleigh-Taylor instability for in situ measurements of thermal conductivity of warm dense matter.- Radiation of electrons in Weibel-generated fields: a general case.- Laser-plasma simulations of artificial magnetosphere formed by