Astrophysics in the Laboratory

Professor Steven J Rose

Visiting Professor
Clarendon Laboratory, Room 029
Phone: +44 (0) 1865 282639
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 272400
Email: s.rose1@physics.ox.ac.uk / s.rose@imperial.ac.uk

 Astrophysics in the Laboratory

My research concentrates on the design and analysis of experiments fielded on high-power lasers and pulsed-power machines. These experiments produce, in miniature and for a very short time, extreme plasma conditions similar to those found in a variety of exotic astrophysical objects, ranging from planetary interiors through conditions found at the centre of the Sun and more highly-evolved stars, to white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.

Although based at Imperial College, London where I am the Head of the Plasma Physics Group, my visiting position at Oxford allows me to undertake research in collaboration with members of the Oxford High Power Laser Group, led by Professor Wark, as well as with other members of the Physics Department.

Key Publications

Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser-fusion ignition, R Kodama, P A Norreys, K Mima, A E Dangor, R G Evans, H Fujita, Y Kitagawa, K Krushelnick, T Miyakoshi, M Miyanaga, T Norimatsu, S J Rose, T Shozaki, K Shigemori, A Sunahara, M Tampo, K A Tanaka, Y Toyama, T Yamanaka and M Zepf, Nature, 412, 798 (2001).

Set the controls for the heart of the Sun, S J Rose, Contemporary Physics, 45, 109 (2004).

Charge state distribution and the Doppler effect in an expanding photoionised plasma, M E Foord, R F Heeter, P A M van Hoof, R S Thoe, J E Bailey, M E Cuneo, H-K Chung, D A Liedahl, K B Fournier, G A Chandler, V Jonauskas, R Kisielius, L P Mix, C Ramsbottom, P T Springer, F P Keenan, S J Rose and W H Goldstein, Physical Review Letters, 93, 055002 (2004).

Enhancement of optically thick to thin line intensities in solar and stellar coronal plasmas through radiative transfer effects: an angularly-resolved study, F M Kerr, S J Rose, J S Wark and F P Keenan, Astrophysics Journal Letters, 613, L181 (2004).

Production of dense plasmas with sub 10fsec pulses, J Osterholz, F Brandl, T Fischer, D Hemmers, M Cerchez, G Pretzler, O Willi and S J Rose, Physical Review Letters, 96, 085002 (2006).

Radiation transfer effects on the spectra of laser-generated plasmas, O Renner, F M Kerr, J S Wark, E Wolfrum, J Hawreliak, D Chambers, S J Rose, H A Scott and P Patel, Physical Review Letters, (2006).