Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Laboratory disruption of scaled astrophysical outflows by a misaligned magnetic field

  • G. Revet,
  • B. Khiar,
  • E. Filippov,
  • C. Argiroffi,
  • J. Béard,
  • R. Bonito,
  • M. Cerchez,
  • S. N. Chen,
  • T. Gangolf,
  • D. P. Higginson,
  • A. Mignone,
  • B. Olmi,
  • M. Ouillé,
  • S. N. Ryazantsev,
  • I. Yu. Skobelev,
  • M. I. Safronova,
  • M. Starodubtsev,
  • T. Vinci,
  • O. Willi,
  • S. Pikuz,
  • S. Orlando,
  • A. Ciardi,
  • J. Fuchs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20917-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Mass outflow is a common process in astrophysical objects. Here the authors investigate in which conditions an astrophysically-scaled laser-produced plasma flow can be collimated and evolves in the presence of a misaligned external magnetic field.