Conveners
Laboratory astroplasma physics
- Masahiro Hoshino (The University of Tokyo)
Galaxy clusters are filled with hot, diffuse X-ray emitting plasma, with a stochastically tangled and intermittent magnetic field whose energy is close to equipartition with the energy of the turbulent motions. In the cluster cores, the temperatures remain anomalously high compared to what might be expected considering that the radiative cooling time is short relative to the Hubble time. While...
I will present some recent analytical and numerical results on the current filamentation instability/Weibel instability, with a focus on conditions relevant for planned/future experiments with relativistic beams. Results on the long time behavior of the instability will also be discussed with a focus on observables (such as beam/cloud slowdown) and expected magnetization. Astrophysical...
