Modeling of Blast Waves Generated on the Falcon Laser and Applications to Astrophysical Explosions

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Dec 1998

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American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #103.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1405

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We are simulating experiments being done on the Falcon laser to generate strong, cylidrically diverging blast waves of relevance to astrophysics.[1] These experiments extend to earlier work by Grun et al.[2] on spherical blast waves. The Falcon laser generates pulses of a few hundred mJ in 30 fs at a wavelength of 820 nm, imaged with F/15 optics into an Ar gas-jet target of ion density 10(19) cm(3) . The energy is deposited over a cylindrical volume of dimensions 1 mm length by 50 mm diameter. For our numerical simulations, we use the radiation-hydrodynamics code HYADES [3] in cylindrical geometry to simulate the evolution of this cylindrical shock wave, and compare the simulations with the data and with Sedov-Taylor blast wave theory. The goal of this effort is the develop a laboratory setting for studying strong shocks of relevance to supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, and other high energy astrophysics phenomena. [Work performed under the auspices of U.S. DOE Contract No. W-7405-Eng-36.] 1. C.F. McKee and B.T. Draine, Science 252, 397 (1991) 2. J. Grun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2738 (1991) 3. J.T. Larsen and S.M. Lane, JQSRT 51, 179 (1994)

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