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Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Jets

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Jets from Young Stars IV

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Jets and outflows produced during star-formation are observed on many scales: from the “micro-jets” which extend over a few hundred Astronomical Units to the “super-jets” which propagate over distances of a few parsecs. Recently, a new “class” of short-lived (hundreds of nano-seconds) centimetre-long jets has emerged in the laboratory as a complementary tool to study the physics of astrophysical jets. Here I will discuss and review the work aimed at “simulating” protostellar jets in the laboratory using z-pinch machines.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank C. Stehlé (Observatoire de Paris), S.V. Lebedev (Imperial College) and A. Frank (University of Rochester) for many useful discussions. This work was supported in part by the European Community´s Marie Curie Actions-Human Resource and Mobility within the JETSET (Jet Simulations Experiments and Theory) network under contract RTNCT- 2004 005592. Access to the Marenostrum supercomputer, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (Spain), was granted through the HPC-EUROPA project (RII3-CT-2003-506079), with the support of the European Community – Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 ´Structuring the European Research Area´ Programme. Finally, the author acknowledges the London e-Science Centre (LESC) for the provision of computational facilities and support.

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Ciardi, A. (2010). Laboratory Studies of Astrophysical Jets. In: Garcia, P., Ferreira, J. (eds) Jets from Young Stars IV. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 793. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02289-0_2

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