| Issue |
EAS Publications Series
Volume 58, 2012
ECLA - European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics
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| Page(s) | 133 - 136 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/1258021 | |
| Published online | 13 February 2013 | |
C. Stehlé, C. Joblin and L. d’Hendecourt (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 58 (2012) 133-136
Experimental studies of supersonic radiatively cooled plasma jets
1 Imperial College London,
London,
UK
2 Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation,
San Leandro,
CA,
USA
3 LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, École
Normale Supérieure, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, France
4 University of Rochester,
Rochester,
NY,
USA
Properties of radiatively cooled supersonic plasma jets formed by ablation of thin Al foils driven by 1.4 MA, 250 ns current pulse are presented. The jets are highly collimated with half-opening angles of ~2°. Measurements of the flow velocity (~60 km/s) and plasma temperature (~15 eV) in the jet with Thomson scattering diagnostic give internal Mach number of M ~ 3, suggesting additional collimation of the jet by toroidal magnetic fields.
© The Author(s) 2013