High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics 2008 [Paperback]

The HEDLA-08 conference was a continuation of a series of biennial conferences first held in Pleasanton, California, in 1996, and focused on progress made during recent years in designing, conducting, and analyzing the results of laboratory experiments, theoretical work, and computer simulations relevant to high-energy density (HED) astrophysics. The astrophysics aspects of HED experiments are extremely diverse and include jets, the mechanism of their generation and interaction with the ambient medium; stellar evolution with a focus on turbulence, hydrodynamic instabilities, and mixing of nuclear species; radiative supersonic flows associated with stellar explosions and jets; radiative processes in plasma; equation of state and material properties; and last but not least magnetized and relativistic plasmas. This volume contains a small but representative subset of 35 peer-reviewed papers presented at the HEDLA-08 meeting.Introduction to High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics 2008.- Launching mechanisms of astrophysical jets.- Supersonic plasma jet interaction with gases and plasmas.- Formation of episodic magnetically driven radiatively cooled plasma jets in the laboratory.- Experimental results to study astrophysical plasma jets using Intense Lasers.- A jet production experiment using the high-repetition rate Astra laser.- Colliding plasma experiments to study astrophysical-jet relevant physics.- Spiral mode of standing accretion shock instability in core-collapse supernovae.- Image processing of radiographs in 3D Rayleigh-Taylor decelerating interface experiments.- Modeling of multi-interface, diverging, hydrodynamic experiments for the National Ignition Facility.- Shock waves in the large-scale structure of the Universe.- Analytical structure of steady radiative shocks in magnetic cataclysmic variables.- Classification of and recent research involving radiative shocks.- Simulations of the supersonic radiative jet propagation in plasmas.- Theoretical and numelcO