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Excitation of Chirping Whistler Waves in a Laboratory Plasma by Van Compernolle, B, An, X, Bortnik, J, Thorne, R M, Pribyl, P, Gekelman, W

“…Whistler mode chorus emissions with a characteristic frequency chirp are important magnetospheric waves, responsible for the acceleration of outer radiation…”
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Observation of collisionless shocks in a large current-free laboratory plasma by Niemann, C., Gekelman, W., Constantin, C. G., Everson, E. T., Schaeffer, D. B., Bondarenko, A. S., Clark, S. E., Winske, D., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Pribyl, P.

“…We report the first measurements of the formation and structure of a magnetized collisionless shock by a laser‐driven magnetic piston in a current‐free…”
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Experimental Observation of Convective Cell Formation due to a Fast Wave Antenna in the Large Plasma Device by Martin, M J, Gekelman, W, Van Compernolle, B, Pribyl, P, Carter, T

“…An experiment in a linear device, the Large Plasma Device, is used to study sheaths caused by an actively powered radio frequency (rf) antenna. The rf antenna…”
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Nonlocal Ohms Law, Plasma Resistivity, and Reconnection During Collisions of Magnetic Flux Ropes by Gekelman, W., DeHaas, T., Pribyl, P., Vincena, S., Compernolle, B. Van, Sydora, R., Tripathi, S. K. P.

“…The plasma resistivity was evaluated in an experiment on the collision of two magnetic flux ropes. Whenever the ropes collide, some magnetic energy is lost as…”
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Magnetic field line reconnection in the current systems of flux ropes and Alfvén waves by Gekelman, W, Lawrence, E, Collette, A, Vincena, S, Compernolle, B Van, Pribyl, P, Berger, M, Campbell, J

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Pulsating Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Three-Dimensional Flux-Rope Interactions by Gekelman, W, De Haas, T, Daughton, W, Van Compernolle, B, Intrator, T, Vincena, S

“…The dynamics of magnetic reconnection is investigated in a laboratory experiment consisting of two magnetic flux ropes, with currents slightly above the…”
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Resonant excitation of whistler waves by a helical electron beam by An, X., Van Compernolle, B., Bortnik, J., Thorne, R. M., Chen, L., Li, W.

“…Chorus‐like whistler mode waves that are known to play a fundamental role in driving radiation belt dynamics are excited on the Large Plasma Device by the…”
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONNECTION INVOLVING MAGNETIC FLUX ROPES by GEKELMAN, W, LAWRENCE, E, VAN COMPERNOLLE, B

“…Two and three magnetic flux ropes are created and studied in a well-diagnosed laboratory experiment. The twisted helical bundles of field lines rotate and…”
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Collisionless momentum transfer in space and astrophysical explosions by Bondarenko, A. S., Schaeffer, D. B., Everson, E. T., Clark, S. E., Lee, B. R., Constantin, C. G., Vincena, S., Van Compernolle, B., Tripathi, S. K. P., Winske, D., Niemann, C.

“…Larmor coupling is a collisionless momentum exchange mechanism believed to occur in various astrophysical and space-plasma environments. The phenomenon is now…”
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Generation of Alfvén waves by high power pulse at the electron plasma frequency by Van Compernolle, B., Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Carter, T. A.

“…The interaction of a short high power pulse at the electron plasma frequency (f = 9 GHz, τ = .5 μs, P < 70 kW) and a magnetized plasma (n0 ≤ 1.25 · 1012 cm−3,…”
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First high-power helicon results from DIII-D by Pinsker, R.I., Van Compernolle, B., Tang, S.X., Lestz, J.B., Moeller, C.P., Petty, C.C., Dupuy, A., Squire, J.P., Garofalo, A.M., Porkolab, M., Rost, J.C., Baek, S.G., Nagy, A., Chowdhury, S., Crocker, N.A., Degrandchamp, G.H., McLean, A.G., Gage, K.R., Marinoni, A., Martin, E.H., Ronchi, G.

“…Abstract More than 0.6 MW of rf power at 476 MHz has been coupled to DIII-D plasmas by launching helicon (whistler) waves with a traveling-wave antenna…”
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Direct detection of resonant electron pitch angle scattering by whistler waves in a laboratory plasma by Van Compernolle, B, Bortnik, J, Pribyl, P, Gekelman, W, Nakamoto, M, Tao, X, Thorne, R M

“…Resonant interactions between energetic electrons and whistler mode waves are an essential ingredient in the space environment, and in particular in…”
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Erratum: Excitation of Chirping Whistler Waves in a Laboratory Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 245002 (2015)] by Van Compernolle, B, An, X, Bortnik, J, Thorne, R M, Pribyl, P, Gekelman, W

“…This corrects the article DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.245002…”
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Generation of shear Alfvén waves by repetitive electron heating by Wang, Y., Gekelman, W., Pribyl, P., Van Compernolle, B., Papadopoulos, K.

“…ELF/ULF waves are powerful tools for submarine communication, geophysical mapping, and radiation belt remediation. However, due to their large wavelength (on…”
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Experimental study of the dynamics of a thin current sheet by Gekelman, W, DeHaas, T, Van Compernolle, B, Daughton, W, Pribyl, P, Vincena, S, Hong, D

“…Many plasmas in natural settings or in laboratory experiments carry currents. In magnetized plasmas the currents can be narrow field-aligned filaments as small…”
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Laboratory study of avalanches in magnetized plasmas by Van Compernolle, B, Morales, G J, Maggs, J E, Sydora, R D

“…It is demonstrated that a novel heating configuration applied to a large and cold magnetized plasma allows the study of avalanche phenomena under controlled…”
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A novel Doppler backscattering (DBS) system to simultaneously monitor radio frequency plasma fluctuations and low frequency turbulence by Chowdhury, S, Crocker, N. A, Peebles, W. A, Rhodes, T. L, Zeng, L, Van Compernolle, B, Brookman, M, Pinsker, R. I, Lau, C

“…A novel quadrature Doppler Backscattering (DBS) system has been developed and optimized for the E-band (60-90GHz) frequency range using either O-mode or X-mode…”
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Excitation of shear Alfvén waves by a spiraling ion beam in a large magnetoplasma by Tripathi, S K P, Van Compernolle, B, Gekelman, W, Pribyl, P, Heidbrink, W

“…Generation of shear Alfvén waves by the Doppler-shifted ion-cyclotron-resonance (DICR) of a spiraling H(+) ion beam with magnetic fluctuations in a…”
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Experimental Observation of Convective Cell Formation due to a Fast Wave Antenna in the Large Plasma Device by Martin, M. J., Gekelman, W., Van Compernolle, B., Pribyl, P., Carter, T.

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Observations of a Field-Aligned Ion/Ion-Beam Instability in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma by Heuer, P. V, Weidl, M. S, Dorst, R. S, Schaeffer, D. B, Bondarenko, A. S, Tripathi, S. K. P, Van Compernolle, B, Vincena, S, Constantin, C. G, Niemann, C, Winske, D

“…Collisionless coupling between super Alfv\'{e}nic ions and an ambient plasma parallel to a background magnetic field is mediated by a set of electromagnetic…”
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