Modelling loop-top X-ray source and reconnection outflows in solar flares with intense lasers

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 984-987

  Zhong, Jiayong ^a   Li, Yutong ^b   Wang, Xiaogang ^c   Wang, Jiaqi ^c   Dong, Quanli ^b   Xiao, Chijie ^c   Wang, Shoujun ^b   Liu, Xun ^b   Zhang, Lei ^b   An, Lin ^b   Wang, Feilu ^a   Zhu, Jianqiang ^d   Gu, Yuan ^d   He, Xiantu ^c,e,f   Zhao, Gang ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b,g  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d National Laboratory on High Power Lasers and Physics   (China)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS   (China)

^g SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SOURCES; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOSPHERE; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; PLASMA JETS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMA; EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; HIGH INTENSITY LASERS; MAGNETIC POTENTIALS; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; RECONNECTION PHENOMENA; RELIABLE CONNECTIONS;

MAGNETOPLASMA;

EID: 78649894460     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1790     Document Type: Article

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