supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40904047,40825014,40890162 and 40974105);the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories
At present it remains to address why the fast solar wind is fast and the slow wind is slow.Recently we have shown that the field line curvature may substantially influence the wind speed v,thereby offering an explanat...
supported by the KIP Pilot Project of the Chinese Academy of Scineces(KZCX2-YW-123);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41004072,41031065,41074106,41074117,40974090,40874088 and 40831061);the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB811405)
It is believed that a southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is mainly responsible for the energy input from solar wind into the magnetosphere.This paper presents an unusual case of strong anti-sunward plasma f...