High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007

Astrophysical jets, high-Mach-number flows, magnetized radiative jets, magnetic reconnection.- An Introduction to Observations Relevant to Astrophysical Jets and Nebulae.- Distinguishing Propagation vs. Launch Physics of Astrophysical Jets and the Role of Experiments.- Magnetic-Tower Jet Solution for Launching Astrophysical Jets.- 3D MHD Simulations of Laboratory Plasma Jets.- Outflow Propagation in Collapsars: Collimated Jets and Expanding Outflows.- Jet Deflection by a Quasi-Steady-State Side Wind in the Laboratory.- Hypersonic Swizzle Sticks: Protostellar Turbulence, Outflows and Fossil Outflow Cavities.- Plasma Jet Studies via the Flow Z-Pinch.- Double-Pulse Laser-Driven Jets on OMEGA.- Laboratory Modeling of Standing Shocks and Radiatively Cooled Jets with Angular Momentum.- Numerical Simulations and Astrophysical Applications of Laboratory Jets at Omega.- Laboratory Experiment of Plasma Flow Around Magnetic Sail.- Astrophysical Jets of Blazars and Microquasars.- Simulation of the Magnetothermal Instability.- Sheared Flow as a Stabilizing Mechanism in Astrophysical Jets.- How to Produce a Plasma Jet Using a Single and Low Energy Laser Beam.- Experimental Design for the Laboratory Simulation of Magnetized Astrophysical Jets.- Excitation of Electromagnetic Flute Modes in the Process of Interaction of Plasma Flow with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field.- Plasma Jet Experiments Using LULI 2000 Laser Facility.- Magnetic Fields for the Laboratory Simulation of Astrophysical Objects.- Supernova remnants, shock processing, radiative shocks.- Assessing Mix Layer Amplitude in 3D Decelerating Interface Experiments.- The Formation of a Cooling Layer in a Partially Optically Thick Shock.- Measurement of the Growth of Perturbations on Blast Waves in a Mixed Gas.- Colliding Blast Waves Driven by the Interaction of a Short-Pulse Laser with a Gas of Atomic Clusters.- Investigating the Astrophysical Applicability of Radiative and Non-Radiative Blast wave Structure in Cluster Media.- Mass-Stripping Analysis of an Interstellar Cloud by a Supernova Shock.- Hydrodynamics of Supernova Evolution in the Winds of Massive Stars.- Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Radiative Shocks.- Electrostatic Potentials in Supernova Remnant Shocks.- Non-Stationary Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Pulsar Wind Interaction with a Supernova Shell.- Compact object accretion disks, x-ray photoionized plasmas.- Phenomenological Theory of the Photoevaporation Front Instability.- Photoionized Flows from Magnetized Globules.- Nonlinear Dynamics of Ionization Fronts in HII Regions.- Pillars of Heaven.- The Evolution of Channel Flows in MHD Turbulence Driven by Magnetorotational Instability.- Laboratory Exploration of Solar Energetic Phenomena.- Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Collapsars.- Stellar evolution, stellar envelopes, opacities, radiation transport.- Astrophysical Radiation Dynamics: The Prospects for Scaling.- Experiments to Study Radiation Transport in Clumpy Media.- Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, exploding systems, strong shocks, turbulent mixing.- Laboratory Observation of Secondary Shock Formation Ahead of a Strongly Radiative Blast Wave.- Flash Code Simulations of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities in Laser-Driven Experiments.- Models of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Jets of Microquasars: Orbital Modulation.- Time-Dependent Synchrotron and Compton Spectra from Microquasar Jets.- New Experimental Platform for Studies of Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing in Accelerating and Rotating Fluids at High Reynolds Numbers.- Weibel Turbulence in Laboratory Experiments and GRB/SN Shocks.- Diagnostics of the Non-Linear Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability.- Planetary Interiors, high-pressure EOS, dense plasma atomic physics.- Density Measurements of Shock Compressed Matter Using Short Pulse Laser Diagnostics.- Hydrogen and Helium at High Density and Astrophysical Implications.- Graded-Density Reservoirs for Accessing High Stress Low Temperature Material States.- He Conductivity in Cool White Dwarf Atmospheres.- The Structure of Jupiter, Saturn, and Exoplanets: Key Questions for High-Pressure Experiments.- Modeling Planetary Interiors in Laser Based Experiments Using Shockless Compression.- Ultrastrong fields, particle acceleration, collisionless shocks.- Scaling Laws for Collisionless Laser-Plasma Interactions of Relevance to Laboratory Astrophysics.- Topical Issues for Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in Astrophysical Shocks.- Three-Dimensional Particle Acceleration in Electromagnetic Cylinder and Torus.- Simulating Poynting Flux Acceleration in the Laboratory with Colliding Laser Pulses.- Three-Dimensional Particle Acceleration in Electromagnetic Dominated Outflows with Background Plasma and Clump.- 3-D RPIC Simulations of Relativistic Jets: Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Generation, and Emission.- Spectral Features of Photon Bubble Models of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources.- Polychromatic X-ray Beam from the Acceleration of Energetic Electrons in Ultrafast Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Scalable Dynamics of High Energy Relativistic Electrons: Theory, Numerical Simulations and Experimental Results.- Proton Radiography of Megagauss Electromagnetic Fields Generated by the Irradiation of a Solid Target by an Ultraintense Laser Pulse.