Scaled laboratory experiments explain the kink behaviour of the Crab Nebula jet

The remarkable discovery by the Chandra X-ray observatory that the Crab nebula’s jet periodically changes direction provides a challenge to our understanding of astrophysical jet dynamics. It has been suggested that this phenomenon may be the consequence of magnetic fields and magnetohydrodynamic in...

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Main Authors: Tzeferacos, P., Lamb, D., Gregori, G., Norreys, P. A., Follett, R. K., Froula, D. H., Koenig, M., Amendt, P. A., Park, H. S., Remington, B. A., Ryutov, D. D., Wilks, S. C., Betti, R., Frank, A., Hu, S. X., Sangster, T. C., Hartigan, P., Drake, R. P., Kuranz, C. C., Lebedev, S. V., Woolsey, N. C., Li, Chikang, Rosenberg, Michael Jonathan, Frenje, Johan A, Rinderknecht, Hans George, Sio, Hong Weng, Zylstra, Alex Bennett, Petrasso, Richard D, Seguin, Fredrick Hampton
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108277
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