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Experimental results to study astrophysical plasma jets using Intense Lasers

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We present experimental results of plasma jet, interacted with an ambient medium, using intense lasers to investigate the complex features of astrophysical jets. This experiment was performed in France at the LULI facility, Ecole Polytechnique, using one long pulse laser to generate the jet and a short pulse laser to probe it by proton radiography. A foam filled cone target was used to generate high velocity plasma jet, and a gas jet nozzle produced the well known ambient medium. Using visible pyrometry and interferometry, we were able to measure the jet velocity and electronic density. We get a panel of measurements at various gas density and time delay. From these measurements, we could underline the growth of a perturbed shape of the jet interaction with the ambient medium. The reason of this last observation is still in debate and will be presented in the article.

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Loupias, B., Gregory, C.D., Falize, E. et al. Experimental results to study astrophysical plasma jets using Intense Lasers. Astrophys Space Sci 322, 25–29 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-009-0025-7

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