Session UO4: Laboratory Astrophysics

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Chair: Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 1/2

Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:00PM - 2:12PM

 UO4.00001: OMEGA Laser--Driven Hydrodynamic Plasma Jet Experiments with Relevance to Astrophysics
S.L. Sublett , J.P. Knauer , D.D. Meyerhofer , T.J.B. Collins , A. Frank

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:12PM - 2:24PM

 UO4.00002: Laboratory Studies of High Mach Number Shock Collisions with Foils and Density Discontinuities.
Matthias Hohenberger , R. Carley , J. Lazarus , J. Chittenden , R.A. Smith

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:24PM - 2:36PM

 UO4.00003: 3D Tomographic imaging of colliding cylindrical blast waves
R.A. Smith , J. Lazarus , M. Hohenberger , J. Robinson , A. Marocchino , J. Chittenden , M. Dunne , A. Moore , E. Gumbrell

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:36PM - 2:48PM

 UO4.00004: Spike Extensions in Rayleigh-Taylor, Decelerating-Interface Experiments
C.C. Kuranz , R.P. Drake , M.J. Grosskopf , H.F. Robey , J.F. Hansen , A.R. Miles , J. Knauer , T. Plewa , N. Hearn

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
2:48PM - 3:00PM

 UO4.00005: Supersonic plasma jet interaction with gases and plasmas at the PALS laser facility
Ph. Nicolai , C. Stenz , X. Ribeyre , V. Tikhonchuk , A. Kasperczuk , T. Pisarczyk , L. Juha , E. Krousky , K. Masek , M. Pfeifer , K. Rohlena , J. Skala , J. Ullschmied , M. Kalal , D. Klir , J. Kravarik , P. Kubes , P. Pisarczyk

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:00PM - 3:12PM

 UO4.00006: Laser-triggered millimeter-scale collimated plasma jets in crossed electric and magnetic fields.
Hernan Quevedo , Parrish Brady , Prashant Valanju , Matt McCormack , Roger Bengtson , Todd Ditmire

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:12PM - 3:24PM

 UO4.00007: Experimental Study of Episodic Magnetically Driven Radiatively Cooled Plasma Jets
F. Suzuki-Vidal , S.V. Lebedev , S.N. Bland , J.P. Chittenden , G.N. Hall , A. Harvey-Thompson , A. Marocchino , A. Ciardi , C. Stehle , S.C. Bott , A. Frank , E.G. Blackman , T. Ray

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:24PM - 3:36PM

 UO4.00008: Photon-photon scattering in vacuum and astophysical plasmas
G. Brodin

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:36PM - 3:48PM

 UO4.00009: Line intensity enhancements in both stellar and laser-plasma coronal X-ray spectra due to opacity effects
Justin Wark , Steven Rose , Francis Keenan , Michail Mathioudakis , Marco Matranga

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
3:48PM - 4:00PM

 UO4.00010: Iron plasma transmission measurements at temperatures above 150 eV
J.E. Bailey , G.A. Rochau , P.W. Lake , C.A. Iglesias , J. Abdallah, Jr. , J.J. MacFarlane , I. Golovkin , P. Wang , R.C. Mancini , C. Blancard , Ph. Crosse , G. Faussurier , F. Gilleron , S. Mazevet , J.C. Pain , M. Bump , O. Garcia , T.C. Moore

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:00PM - 4:12PM

 UO4.00011: Radiative cooling in relativistic collisionless shocks. Can simulations and experiments probe relevant GRB physics?
Mikhail Medvedev , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:12PM - 4:24PM

 UO4.00012: Shock-processing of astrophysical dust grains
J.F. Hansen , G.A. Graham , E.M. Bringa , B.A. Remington , A.T. Kearsley , W. van Breugel , A.G.G.M. Tielens , E.A. Taylor

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