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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 707, Issue 2, Pages L137-L141Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/L137
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galaxies: jets; ISM: jets and outflows; magnetic fields; methods: laboratory; plasmas
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Plasma jet formation was observed in counterstreaming plasmas in a laboratory experiment. In order to model an ambient plasma of astrophysical jets, the counterstreaming plasmas were created by irradiating a double CH-plane target with a high-power laser system. Since the mean free paths of the ions in terms of the counterstreaming motion were larger than the scale length of the experiment, the two-stream interaction of the plasmas was essentially collisionless. The time evolution of the jet collimation was obtained over several shots with different timing by shadowgraphy. When a single CH-plane target was irradiated, no jet collimation was observed. The counterstreaming plasma as an ambient plasma is essential for the jet plasma to collimate.
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