Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40831060, 40621003 and 40774077, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20070420725), and K. C. Wong Education Foundation of Hong Kong.
Three-dimensional global magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system are carried out to explore the dependence of the magnetospheric reconnection voltage, the ionospheric transpol...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40390150, 40674094 and 40523006, and the National Basic Research Programme of China under Grant No 2006CB806305.
Measurements of energetic particles obtained by the two geosynchronous satellites (1991-080 and LANL-97A) are performed to investigate the plasma injection boundary and source region during the magnetospheric substo...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40774078, 40404012, 40474064 and 40674076, and the Visiting Scholar Foundation of State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, Chinese Academy Sciences.
We present a study on the second-order resonant interaction between the ring current protons with Whistler-mode waves propagating near the quasi electrostatic limit following the previous second-order resonant theory....
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40474064, 40404012, and 40674076, the Scientific Research Foundation for R0CS, SEM; the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Department under Grant No 05FJ3045, and the Visiting Scholar Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
We construct the bounce-averaged diffusion coefficients and study the bounce-averaged acceleration for energetic electrons in gyroresonance with whistler mode chorus. Numerical calculations have been performed for a b...
Supported by the Hundred Talents Programme of Ghinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation of Ghina under Grant Nos 10425314 and 10463002.
We re-study the one-dimensional electric field structure of an outer gap accelerator by considering the physical limit of trans-field height. Inside the outer gap, the charge depletion creates a large electric field a...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40336052 and 40474064.
A ray-tracing method is developed to evaluate the wave growth/damping and specifically propagation trajectories of the magnetospherically reflected Whistler-mode waves. The methodology is valid for weak wave growth/da...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 40474063.
Jupiter's aurora exhibits three distinct regions: the satellite footprint emissions, the main oval emissions and all polar emissions. As the case of the Earth, the auroral morphology contains both qualitative and qu...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40474053 and 40325010.
Using a recently developed PPMLR-MHD code, we carry out a global numerical simulation of the interaction between interplanetary shocks and Earth's magnetosphere. The initial magnetosphere is in a quasi-steady state, ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 40474053 and 40325010.
A three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) code is designed specially for global simulations of the solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system. The code possesses a high resolution in capturing MHD shocks and di...