Laboratory spectroscopy of silicon plasmas photoionized by mimic astrophysical compact objects

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Dec 2009

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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Volume 51, Issue 12, pp. 124032 (2009).

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Photoionized plasmas are encountered in astrophysics wherever low-temperature gas/plasma is bathed in a strong radiation field. X-ray line emissions in the several kiloelectronvolts spectral range were observed from accreting clouds of binary systems, such as CYGNUS X-3 and VELA X-1, in which high-intensity x-ray continua from compact objects (neutron stars, black holes or white dwarfs) irradiate the cold and rarefied clouds. X-ray continuum-induced line emission accurately describes the accreting clouds, but experimental verification of this photoionized plasma model is scarce. Here we report the generation of photoionized plasmas in the laboratory under well-characterized conditions using a high-power laser. A blackbody radiator at a temperature of 500 eV, corresponding to a compact object, was created by means of a laser-driven implosion. The emerging x-rays irradiate a low-density (ne < 1020 cm-3) and low-temperature (Te < 30 eV) silicon plasma. Line emissions from lithium- and helium-like silicon ions were observed from a thermally cold silicon plasma in the 1.8-1.9 keV spectral region, far from equilibrium conditions. This result reveals the laboratory generation of a photoionizing plasma. Atomic kinetic calculations imply the importance of direct K-shell photoionization by incoming hard x-rays.

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