Nanoflares and current sheet dissipation

Energy must be continually supplied to the solar corona to maintain both its average temperature and its high energy manifestations. The energy is supplied by photospheric motions and the magnetic field acts both to transmit this energy to the corona and as the furnace in which the energy is stored. The means by which the energy is dissipated and transformed into the actual forms we observe is the activation of current sheets. We conjecture here the properties of such current sheets as derived by both energetical arguments and numerical evidence of the self-organization of a system of currents in a highly turbulent medium. The consequences of the appearance of spatial and temporal intermittency on the different aspects of solar acitvity are also discussed.     

Low frequency turbulence and energy dissipation in the Solar Wind

The possibility to perform in-situ measurements of velocity, magnetic field, density and temperature fluctuations in the Solar Wind has greatly improved our knoweledge of MHD turbulence not only from the point of view of space physics but also from the more general point of view of plasma physics.These fluctuations on the one hand extend over a wide range of frequencies (about 5 decades), a fact which seems to be the signature of turbulent non-linear energy cascade, on the other hand display, mainly in the trailing edge of high speed streams, a number of striking features: (i) a high degree of correlation between magnetic and velocity field fluctuations, (ii) a very low level of fluctuations in mass density and magnetic field intensity, (iii) a considerable anisotropy revealed by minimum variance analysis of the magnetic field correlation tensor. More recently it has been stressed that MHD turbulence in the Solar Wind displays a clear intermittent character.The picture which emerges from the most recent analytical theories and numerical simulations is presented. In particular the observations which give us informations about the dissipation mechanism, which remains yet largely unknown, are discussed.     

修正的跨声速小扰动方程以及与其相容的激波方程

本文给出了与修正的跨声速小扰动(MSD)方程相容的激波方程,计算证明它的极曲线与精确的激波极曲线十分接近。     

温度、密度对目标等离子体隐身效果影响的FDTD分析

采用等温近似,给出覆盖目标的不均匀的、各项同性的、热的、碰撞的、等离子体的电磁反射的三维FDTD算法的公式。在一维条件下,计算了不同密度分布、不同温度的等离子体对电磁波的反射系数。给出了温度、密度对电磁波在等离子体中的碰撞吸收的影响。结果显示,增大等离子体的温度和密度将有利于等离子体对电磁波的吸收,增大吸收的带宽,减小等离子体覆盖目标对电磁波的反射。     

TYPES OF FLOW OVER LEESIDE OF A SLENDER TAPERED WING AT SUPERSONIC SPEED

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太阳色球层-日冕中扰动的传播(Ⅱ)

首先讨论了磁流波传播的线性特征，然后构造了球坐标中-自治的非等温，非均匀等离子体初态，应用二维时变可压缩磁流体动力学模拟，数值研究了色球层底部压力脉冲所引起扰动的全球传播过程，结果表明，在极区，压力脉冲导致的扰动传播可以区分成两类不同模式的波动，快磁声波与慢磁声波，而在赤道附近，传播扰动是快模磁声波，在源区附近还存在一非传播的扰动，模拟结果的特征有助于解释SOHO/EIT观测到的波动事件。     

Binary and millisecond radio pulsars

Recent pulsar surveys, especially those using the multibeam receiver on the Parkes radio telescope, have more than doubled the number of known pulsars, bringing the current total to about 1720. Of these, 171 have millisecond periods, 126 are members of binary systems and 99 are associated with globular clusters. Binary pulsars may be divided into several distinct groups depending on their observed properties such as pulsar period and age, binary period, eccentricity and companion mass. These groups all have different evolutionary histories. Correlations between the various properties are discussed using the increased samples now available. The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array is a project which has the goal of using timing observations of millisecond pulsars to make a direct detection of gravitational waves. The parameters and present status of the project are briefly discussed.     

Absolute and Convective Instabilities of Circularly Polarized Alfvén Waves

We discuss the recent progress in studying the absolute and convective instabilities of circularly polarized Alfvén waves (pump waves) propagating along an ambient magnetic field in the approximation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We present analytical results obtained for pump waves with small dimensionless amplitude a, and compare them with numerical results valid for arbitrary a. The type of instability, absolute or convective, depends on the velocity U of the reference frame where the pump wave is observed with respect to the rest plasma. One of the main results of our analysis is that the instability is absolute when U _l < U < U _r and convective otherwise. We study the dependences of U _l and U _r on a and the ratio of the sound speed to the Alfvén speed b. We also present the results of calculation of the increment of the absolute instability on U for different values of a and b. When the instability is convective (U < U _l or U > U _r) we consider the signalling problem, and show that spatially amplifying waves exist only when the signalling frequency is in two symmetric frequency bands. Then, we write down the analytical expressions determining the boundaries of these frequency bands and discuss how they agree with numerically calculated values. We also present the dependences of the maximum spatial amplification rate on U calculated both analytically and numerically. The implication of the obtained results on the interpretation of observational data from space missions is discussed. In particular, it is shown that circularly polarized Alfvén waves propagating in the solar wind are convectively unstable in a reference frame of any realistic spacecraft.     

MKDVB and CKB Shock Waves

This review presents results from MKDVB and CKB systems to illustrate the properties of magnetohydrodynamics intermediate shock waves. The intermediate shocks can have a family of shock structures; the shock structure and the evolution are related. Furthermore, there exists a class of time-dependent intermediate shocks. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.