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The paper presents results of laboratory experiment modeling the interaction between Lunar magnetic anomalies and Solar wind. To model the LMA we use quadrupole magnetic field. The main dimentionless parameter of the problem, the ion inertia length relative to the mini-magnetosphere size, well corresponds between experiment and LMA conditions. The main result is measurement of the magnetically reflected proton fluxes, which show qualitative agreement to available satellite data.

For the first time in laboratory conditions, an experiment to simulate a system of field-aligned currents arising on planets such as Hot Jupiters in the presence of dense inner-magnetospheric plasma was carried out. The magnitude and transit time of field-aligned currents were measured as a function of the magnetic field using flat electrodes. The geometry of the expansion of plasma streams was pictured by gated camera. Also, in a first approximation, the efficiency of energy transfer from plasma flows to field-aligned currents was calculated. The results obtained create a basis for future laboratory experiments on this topic and improve existing numerical models.

Combining such methods of plasma registration as spectral, probe and optical diagnostics, in this paper propagation of laser plasma in a vacuum magnetic field was studied. By means of Langmuir and magnetic probes such plasma parameters as velocity and the angle of expansion were measured, as well as the size of magnetic cavity. Using optical monochromator combined with CCD a Doppler broadening of a number of ionic and atomic lines was measured and the transversal speed of the plasma cloud expansion was calculated. The data plasma cloud propagation velocity and expansion angle obtained by two methods was compared with gated imaging data and magnetic probe measurements of cavity size.Combining such methods of plasma registration as spectral, probe and optical diagnostics, in this paper propagation of laser plasma in a vacuum magnetic field was studied. By means of Langmuir and magnetic probes such plasma parameters as velocity and the angle of expansion were measured, as well as the size of magnetic cavity. Using optical monochromator combined with CCD a Doppler broadening of a number of ionic and atomic lines was measured and the transversal speed of the plasma cloud expansion was calculated. The data plasma cloud propagation velocity and expansion angle obtained by two methods was compared with gated imaging data and magnetic probe measurements of cavity size.

On the base of NASA [1] new approach about important role of Giant plasma releases of so called Coronal Mass Ejections (CME, with kinetic energy up to Ek ∼ 1036 эрг) from the Sun, we have started a series of simulative experiments [2, 3] with Laser-produced Plasma (LP), expanding into magnetized Background Plasma (BP) to generate laboratory Quasi-Perpendicular collisionless Shocks (Q-PS) by LP-piston for the first time. As a result of such experimental scenario, with the LP-model of CME and Q-PS as interplanetary Collisionless Shock Wave (CSW, observed ahead of super-Alfvenic CME), we did a first comparative study of a «quasi-stationary» model of magnetosphere (by BP, overflowing magnetic dipole μ) with its compressed form after LP formation and following Q-PS generation in BP. During the first set [3] of such experiment MagnetoPause-Shock (MPS), we had measured a maximal additional (due to Q-PS) compression near twice of the total (and «global» quasi-uniform) magnetic field Bi inside of MP. Here we could present and discuss some specific experimental features of these Bi−fields and both their models and distributions. Additional attention was done to the important collisionless processes of the Q-PS generation, especially in the given case of the different mass (m/z) of ions in LP-piston. For the last purpose a new data on the dynamics of such ions (H+ and C+n) were presented including data of 2D and 3D calculations by Hybrid models with PIC (Particles In Cells) description of all ions.

It was shown for the first time that in a laboratory experiment a train of laser plasma clouds makes it possible to increase the length of the whistler waves generated in the power tube of a magnetized medium. The intensity of waves is orders of magnitude higher than the level achieved by known methods.