supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2011CB811402 and 2011CB811403);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11221063, 40890161 and 11173062)
"Solar storm" has been commonly accepted by academic community and the public as a very popular scientific term. It is avivid description of violent ejections of a huge amount of magnetized plasma from the Sun as stro...
supported by NASA EPSCoR(NNX07AL52A);NSF CISMand REU,the Alabama A&M University(AAMU)Title Ⅲ programs;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40890161)
The currently well-developed models for equations of state (EoSs) have been severely impacted by recent measurements of neutron stars with a small radius and/or large mass. To explain these measurements, the theory ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 program,Grant No. 2011CB811403);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11025315,10921303,10973019,11003024,40890161,11203037 and 41074123);the CAS Project KJCX2-EW-T07
Magnetic non-potentiality is important for understanding flares and other solar activities in active regions (ARs). Five non-potential parameters, i.e. electric current, current helicity, source field, photospheric ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No. 2011CB811406);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10921303,10733020,10803011,40890161 and10973020)
ZEUS is a magnetohydrodynamics simulation code widely used in astrophysical research.However,it was recently found that the code may produce artificial shocks in the rarefaction region in some numerical tests since it...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program,No.2011CB811406);the China Meteorological Administration through grant GYHY201106011;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10921303, 10733020,10803011,10973020 and 40890161)
Ever since the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) method for extrapolation of the solar coronal magnetic field was first developed to study the dynamic evolution of twisted magnetic flux tubes, it has proven to be efficient ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11103090,11025315,40890161,10921303,40825014, and 40890162);the CAS project KJCX2-YW-T04,the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,No.2011CB811403);the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China(ZR 2011AQ009)
Using the multi-wavelength data from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, we study a jet occurring in a coronal hole near the northern pole of the Sun. Th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10973020, 40890161 and 10921303);the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, Grant No.2011CB811406)
The relationships between solar flare parameters (total importance, time duration, flare index, and flux) and sunspot activity (R z ) as well as those between geomagnetic activity (aa index) and the flare parame...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10973020,40890161 and 10921303);the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2011CB811406);the China Meteorological Administration (Grant No.GYHY201106011)
The growth rate of solar activity in the early phase of a solar cycle has been known to be well correlated with the subsequent amplitude (solar maximum). It provides very useful information for a new solar cycle as ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40890161,11025315,10921303 and 11003026);the CAS Project KJCX2-YW-T04;the National Basic Research Programof China (Grant 2011CB811403);the Young Researcher Grant of the National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences
With the observations of the Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we analyze in detail the kine- matics of global coronal waves together with their intensity a...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10973020,40890161 and 10921303);the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program;Grant No.2011CB811406)
The concept of degree of similarity (η), is proposed to quantitatively describe the similarity of a parameter (e.g. the maximum amplitude Rmax) of a solar cycle relative to a referenced one, and the prediction me...