AAAS Symposium on Burning Plasma Physics

RING OF FIRE NGC 3132 Can We "Bring a Star to Earth?"

Burning Plasma Physics - The Next Frontier for Fusion Research

AAAS Annual Meeting

February 13, 2004

Updated February 13, 2004

The presentations have been collected and are posted below. These repesent work in progress and should not be quoted without permission from the author. Questions should be directed to the authors.

Burning Plasma Science, The Challenge and Opportunities G. Navratil, Columbia University (7.8 MB pdf)
Turbulence and Transport in Burning Plasmas G. Hammett, Princeton University (1.5 MB pdf) Movies not included.
Astrophysical Thermonuclear Plasmas R. Rosner, University of Chicago (0.8 MB ppt) Movies not included.
Exploration of Fusion Plasmas Using Integrated Simulations J. Dahlburg, Naval Research Lab and Dale Meade Princeton University. (4 MB ppt) Movies not included.
Inertial Confinement Fusion, Physics of Ultra-High-Energy Density Plasmas and a Potential Energy Source on Earth M. Tabak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (14 MB pdf)
The Burning Plasma Experiment in Magnetic Fusion: What it is and how to do it? S. Prager, University of Wisconsin (1.5 MB ppt)

Ring of FIRE, NGC 3132, also called the Eight-Burst Nebula or Southern Ring Nebula, is a glowing ring of gas formed from the outer layers of a sun-like star that experienced a cataclysmic explosion. In this color-enhanced Hubble Space Telescope image, blue corresponds with the hottest gases, red with the coolest. The star responsible for this odd structure about 2,000 light-years away is not the bright one in the middle, but a very faint one just above it.

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