TY - JOUR
T1 - Relativistic plasma astrophysics with intense lasers
AU - Kuramitsu, Yasuhiro
AU - Chu, Hsu Hsin
AU - Hau, Lin Ni
AU - Chen, Shih Hung
AU - Liu, Yao Li
AU - Hsieh, Chia Ying
AU - Sakawa, Youichi
AU - Hideaki, Takabe
AU - Wang, Jyhpyng
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by the Asian Core Program for High energy density science Using intense Laser photons commissioned by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). This work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan under Grant No. MOST-103 -2112 -M-008-001-MY2 .
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Recent progresses of laser technologies enable us to investigate space and astrophysical phenomena in laboratories. In space plasmas the local observations by spacecrafts provide us the microscopic information of the plasma and electric/magnetic fields, however, it is difficult to obtain the global structures of the phenomena. In astrophysical plasmas, in contrast, global images provide us the macroscopic information, although there is no local observation and thus no microscopic information. Laboratory experiments on space and astrophysical phenomena provide us the local and global information simultaneously. We have investigated so far mostly non-relativistic phenomena in the universe with long laser pulses. Now we extend our research from non-relativistic to relativistic regime with an ultra intense laser, the 100 TW laser facility at National Central University. We introduce our facility and model relativistic phenomena in laboratory, focusing on the magnetic field generation and the magnetic reconnection in the universe.
AB - Recent progresses of laser technologies enable us to investigate space and astrophysical phenomena in laboratories. In space plasmas the local observations by spacecrafts provide us the microscopic information of the plasma and electric/magnetic fields, however, it is difficult to obtain the global structures of the phenomena. In astrophysical plasmas, in contrast, global images provide us the macroscopic information, although there is no local observation and thus no microscopic information. Laboratory experiments on space and astrophysical phenomena provide us the local and global information simultaneously. We have investigated so far mostly non-relativistic phenomena in the universe with long laser pulses. Now we extend our research from non-relativistic to relativistic regime with an ultra intense laser, the 100 TW laser facility at National Central University. We introduce our facility and model relativistic phenomena in laboratory, focusing on the magnetic field generation and the magnetic reconnection in the universe.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.hedp.2014.11.005
DO - 10.1016/j.hedp.2014.11.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84945446001
SN - 1574-1818
VL - 17
SP - 198
EP - 202
JO - High Energy Density Physics
JF - High Energy Density Physics
ER -