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SUBMITTER: Mabey P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544622 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190531 1
Accretion processes play a crucial role in a wide variety of astrophysical systems. Of particular interest are magnetic cataclysmic variables, where, plasma flow is directed along the star's magnetic field lines onto its poles. A stationary shock is formed, several hundred kilometres above the stellar surface; a distance far too small to be resolved with today's telescopes. Here, we report the results of an analogous laboratory experiment which recreates this astrophysical system. The dynamics o ...[more]