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The expansion of a radiating plasmoid into a vacuum is examined. It is shown that with an external energy input of ∼1012 W/cm2 the bulk of the incident energy flux is lost as radiation.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 847–853, May, 1981.
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Derzhiev, V.I., Marchenko, V.S. & Yakovlenko, S.I. Emission of an expanding plasmoid. Journal of Engineering Physics 40, 520–525 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00822118
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