A simulation study of ionization depletion in the auroral ionosphericF-region caused by strong convection electric field

THe effects of strong convection electric field on the electron density in the auroral ionosphericF-region have been simulated numerically by means of a physical model. It is found that an enhancement of electric field directed west-northward in post-noon or west-southward in pre-noon results in an ionization depletion with its maximum at altitudes 40–50 km higher than that of theF ₂ peak. When the enhanced electric field lasts for 45 min and has a maximum about 32 mV/m, the resulted ionization depletions reach their maximum at the time just ∼10 min behind the time when the convection electric field and ion temperature enhancements reach their maximum. This is consistent well with EISCAT observations. The magnitudes of the percentage ionization depletions and their recovery time are dependent not only on the intensity of the electric field, but also on the diurnal variation phase of the background electron density. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (49674241, 40074039) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education in China Biography: Cai Hong-tao (1976-), male, Ph. D. candidate, research direction: polar ionospheric modeling.     

The effects of the guide field on the structures of electron density depletions in collisionless magnetic reconnection

Two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations are performed to investigate the formation of electron density depletions in collisionless magnetic reconnection.In anti-parallel reconnection,the quadrupole structures of the out-of-plane magnetic field are formed,and four symmetric electron density depletion layers can be found along the separatrices due to the effects of magetic mirror.With the increase of the initial guide field,the symmetry of both the out-of-plane magnetic field and electron density depletion layers is distorted.When the initial guide field is sufficiently large,the electron density depletion layers along the lower left and upper right separatrices disappear.The parallel electric field in guide field reconnection is found to play an important role in forming such structures of the electron density depletion layers.The structures of the out-of-plane magnetic field By and electron depletion layers in anti-parallel and guide field reconnection are found to be related to electron flow or in-plane currents in the separatrix regions.In anti-parallel reconnection,electrons flow towards the X line along the separatrices,and are directed away from the X line along the magnetic field lines just inside the separatrices.In guide field reconnection,electrons can only flow towards the X line along the upper left and lower right separatrices due to the existence of the parallel electric field in these regions.     

Local time of additive Levy process

We studied the problem of existence of jointly continuous local time for an additive process.Here, “local time” is understood in the sence of occupation density, and by an additive Lévy process we mean a process X＝{X(t), t∈Rd+)} which has the decomposition X＝ X1 X2 … XN. We prove that if the product of it slower index and N is greater than d, then a jointly continuous local time can be obtained via Berman's method.     

The distribution characteristics of the flows in the near-Earth region： TC-1 observational results

TC-1 observational results clearly indicate that the velocity of the flows in the near-Earth region is dependent on the satellite location. The flow speed decreases while satellite moves close to the Earth. The plasma flow in the region close to the Earth tends to drift into the midnight region from the dawn and dusk region while the flow in the region away from the Earth shows an opposite drift. The observational results also show that the tailward flows are mainly located in the plasma sheet boundary while the earthward flow becomes dominant in the plasma sheet. It is found that both the strong tailward and earthward flows are distributed in the region around X= -11 Re, which coincides with the trigger region of the substorm onset. Hence, it may suggest that the flows are related with the trigger of the substorm onset. In addition, the BBFs coming from the mid-tail maily distributed in the region where X〈-9R E a n d ｜Z｜ 〈 3 R E that differs from the convection.     

EISCAT observations of main ionization troughs in the high-latitude ionosphere

F-region electron density depletions associated with main ionization troughs in the high-latitude ionosphere are studied using EISCAT CP3 data of meridian scanning experiments. The troughs in our observations are found to appear mainly in dusk sector, extending from late afternoon to pre-midnight, with higher occurrence rate during equinox and winter. Simultaneous ion drift velocity inF-region shows that the main trough minimum is mostly located at the equator ward edge of the plasma convection flow, rather than in the region where the largest ion flow are observed. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (49674241) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education Biography: LIU Peng (1978-), male, Master candidate. Research direction: studying high-latitude ionosphere using EISCAT radar.     

Magnetic storm effects in the auroral ionosphere observed with EISCAT radar—Two case studies

Storm-time changes of main plasma parameters in the auroral ionosphere are analyzed for two intense storms occurring on May 15, 1997 and Sept. 25, 1998, with emphasis on their relationship to the solar wind dynamic pressure and the IMFB _z component. Strong hard particle precipitation occurred in the initial phase for both storms, associated with high solar wind dynamical pressure. During the recovery phase of the storms, some strong particle precipitation was neither concerned with high solar wind pressure nor southward IMFB _z. Severe negative storm effects depicted by electron density depletion appeared in theF-region during the main and recovery phase of both storms, caused by intensive electric field-related strong Joule/frictional heating when IMF was largely southward. The ion temperature behaved similarly inE-andF-region, but the electron temperature did quite different, with a strong increase in the lowerE-region relating to plasma instability excited by strong electric field and a slight decrease in theF-region probably concerning with a cooling process. The field-aligned ion velocity was high and apparently anticorrelated with the northward component of the ion convection velocity. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (49674241) and the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education Biography: LIU Hui-xin (1974-), female, Ph.D. candidate. Research direction: polar ionospheric behaviors during magnetic storms.     

The fractal structures of the sample path of a general subordinator and the random re-orderings of the Cantor set

In this paper we have found a general subordinator,X, whose range up to time 1,X([0, 1)), has similar structure as random re-orderings of the Cantor setK(ω).X([0, 1)) andK(ω) have the same exact Hausdorff measure function and the integal test of packing measure. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation, the Excellent Young Faculty Foundation of the State Education Commission of China and the Foundation for the Scholars Coming Back from Abroad Hu Xiaoyu: born in Apr. 1964, Professor     

On random Taylor series

This paper deals with random Taylor series whose coefficients consist of independent random variables {X _n } with the property: αE ^1/2{|X _n |²}≤E{|X _n |}<∞,E{X _n }=0 (Ån) for some positive constant α. The convergence, growth, and value distribution of the series are investigated. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 101960433) Ding Xiaoqing: born in Oct. 1958, Doctoral candidate     

On the limiting behavior of weighted partial sums for<Emphasis Type="Italic">B</Emphasis> valued martingale difference sequences

Let {X_n, n≥1} be a martingale difference sequence and {a _nk , 1⩽k⩽n,n⩾1} an array of constant real numbers. The limiting behavior of weighted partial sums ∑ _k=1 ⁿ a _nk X _k is investigated and some new results are obtained. Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Sciene Foundation of China (No. 10071058 and No. 10071019) Biography: Gan Shi-xin (1939-), male, Prof lessor, research direction: martingale theory, probability limiting theory and Banach space geometry theory.     

Some fractal properties of a class of self-similar Markov processes

LetX=(Ω,F,F _t ,X _t , θ _t ,P ^x be a self-similar Markov process on (0, ∞). The exact Hausdorff measure function of the level sets are obtained. An appropriate condition is given under which the self-similar Markov process corresponds to a stable process, and some more fractal properties of the sample path ofX are obtained in this case. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Huang Lihu: born in March 1972, Ph. D graduate student     

Composition operators with linear fractional symbols on vector-valued Bergman spaces

0　IntroductionLetDdenotetheopenunitdiskinthecomplexplaneC , DitsboundaryanddAtheLebesguemeasureonD ,normal izedsothatA(D) =1.ForaBanachspace (X ,‖·‖X) ,wewriteH(D ,X)fortheclassofallX valuedanalyticfunctionsonD .Let1≤ p<∞ ,theX valuedBergmanspaceBp(X)istheclassofallf∈H(D ,X) forwhich‖f‖Bp(X) =∫D‖f(z)‖pXdA(z) 1 /p <∞ (1)IfX =C,thenwewriteBp =Bp(C) fortheclassicalBergmanspaces.Letφ∶D→Dbeananalyticself mapofD .Thenthee quation Cφf=f φdefinesacompositionoperator…     

Finite Time Ruin Probability with Variable Interest Rate and Extended Regular Variation

Consider an insurance risk model, in which the surplus process satisfies a recursive equation Un=Un-1(1 rn)-Xn for n≥1, where U0=x≥0 is the initial surplus, {rn；n≥1} the interest rate sequence, {Xn；n≥l} the sequence of i. i. d. real-valued random variables with common distribution function F, which denotes the gross loss during the nth year. We investigate the ruin probability within a finite time horizon and give the asymptotic result as x→∞.     

The first determination of atmospheric phosphine in Antarctica

It is generally thought that phosphine (PH3) concentrations exist at the low ng/m3 level during the night and at the pg/m3 level during daylight in the remote atmosphere of the lower troposphere. The first de- termination of gaseous PH3 on the Antarctic Millor Peninsula is reported in this paper. No PH3 was de- tected in the air samples around 10:00 when it was sunny. However, PH3 was found in all the 10:00 air samples when it was cloudy or light snow with the average of 75.3±28.8 ng/m3 (n=5). It was also found in nearly all the samples around 22:00 with the average of 87.2±70.9 ng/m3 (n=11). Atmospheric PH3 concentrations around 22:00 were generally higher than those around 10:00 in January and they were almost the same in February. In addition, PH3 concentrations around 22:00 showed a downtrend with the decreasing air temperature, suggesting that light intensity and air temperature had an important effect on atmospheric PH3 concentration. It is very surprising to have found that high concentrations of PH3 exist in the Antarctic atmosphere under the influence of strong UV-radiation and light intensity. The tentative analyses show that dry, cold and very clean atmosphere may be very suitable for the PH3 sur- vival and cause the concentration to increase and accumulate in the local atmosphere. New ap- proaches for the PH3 formation and the process of atmospheric chemistry may exist under such an extreme environment. Atmospheric PH3 may also be from the emissions of local sources.     

Numerical simulation of ionization enhancement in the topside ionosphere of cusp foot-point region caused by low energy particle precipitation

The Graz Ionospheric Flux Tube Simulations (GIFTS) has been improved. The improved GIFTS model was used to numerically investigate the energy particle precipitation on the distribution of electron density in the ionospheric cusp foot-point region under conditions of large plasma convection during magnetic storm. After including the effects of low energy incident particles, the ionospheric electron densities increase remarkably above altitude of ∼250 km, showing a peak at about 350 km. The percent enhancements of electron densities increase gradually with altitude, exceeding 60% near the upper boundary of the calculation. The calculated ionospheric F ₂-peak was remarkably enhanced and lifted up by the incident low energy electrons. Biography: CAI Hongtao(1976–), male, Associate professor, Ph.D., research direction: polar magnetosphere and ionosphere.     

Effect of Mach number on transonic flow past a circular cylinder

The effect of Mach number on transonic flow past a circular cylinder is investigated numerically for the free-stream Mach number M∞ from 0.85 to 0.98 and the Reynolds number 2×10^5 based on the diameter of the cylinder. The work provides an insight into several salient features, including unsteady and quasi-steady flow state, formation of local supersonic zone, and evolution of turbulent shear layer. Results show that there exist two flow states dependent of a critical Mach number Mcr around 0.9. One is an unsteady flow state characterized by moving shock waves interacting with the turbulent flow in the near region of the cylinder for M∞〈Mcr, and the other is a quasi-steady flow state with nearly stationary shock waves formed in the near wake for M∞〉Mcrs, suppressing vortex shedding from the cylin- der. Some flow behaviors in the unsteady and quasi-steady flow states are revealed. From time evolu- tion of flow structures, local supersonic zones are identified in the wake and generated by two typical processes, i.e. reverse flow behind the cylinder and shed vortices in the near wake. The convective Mach number Mc of turbulent shear layers shed from the cylinder is identified nearly as Mc〈I in the unsteady flow regime and Mc〉I in the quasi-steady flow regime, resulting in different evolutions of the shear layers.     

Genetic dissection of a thousand-grain weight quantitative trait locus on rice chromosome 1

Thousand-grain weight （TGWT） is an important factor affecting grain yield as well as grain quality in rice. A quantitative trait locus （QTL） qTGWTI-1 for TGWT was detected previously near DNA marker RG532 on the short arm of chromosome 1 in a recombinant inbred line （RIL） population derived from the indlca-indica rice cross Zhengshan97B （ZS97B）/Milyang46 （MY46）. In this study, two residual heterozygous lines （RHLs）, Chl and Ch2, derived from the ZS97B/MY46 RIL F7 population, were used to develop two Fe populations, RIL-1 and RIL-2. The genome of Chl and Ch2 contains a heterozygous region flanked by RM1--RM3746 and RM151--RM243 on the short arm of chromosome 1, respectively, but is homozygous in other regions. Two tightly linked QTLs, Gwl-1 and Gwl-2, with the same additive direction and similar effect on TGWT, were detected in the region of QTL qTGWTI-1 in population RIL-2. No QTL was detected in the population RIL-1. Four individual RHLs from the population RIL-2 carrying heterozygous segments flanked by RM151--RM10404, RM10381--RM243, RM10435--RM259 and RM10398--RM5359, respectively, were chosen to develop four F= populations. Ten maternal homozygotes and 10 paternal homozygotes were selected from each of the four F2 populations derived from the four RHLs. The four sets of near isogenic lines （NILs） were grown for phenotyping of TGWT and delimitation of Gwl-1 and Gw1-2. Results showed that Gwl-1 and Gw1-2 were located in the intervals RM10376--RM 10398 and RM10404--RM 1344 which cover 392.9 and 308.5 kb regions, respectively. The enhancing alleles were from ZS97B at both loci, and no significant interactions were detected. Genetic dissection of Gwl-1 and Gwl-2 has laid a foundation for their cloning and molecular breeding of grain yield and quality in rice.     

Important properties of alternating groupA 6

By using electric computer machine, via computation method, we obtained some important properties of alternating groupA ₆, as below: 1)A ₆ has 501 subgroups in total, and for each subgroup we give its generators; 2) the index ofA ₆’s subgroup can only be 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,18,24,36,60,360; 3) all subgroups ofA ₆ are separated into 22 conjugate classes, and the subgroups contained in each class are listed. Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (99J165) Biography: HUANG Ben-wen(1948-), male, Associate professor, research interest is in computation group.     

Study on the polarization effect by Ce doping in MnSb alloy

Using discrete variationalX _α method within the local-density-functional theory and cluster models, the electronic structure and magnetic property of MnSb(Ce) are investigated. It is found that Sb-5p state is much polarized by Ce doping. The spin moment of Sb changes from −0.06μ _s in MnSb to −0.32μ _s in Mnsb(Ce). The interaction between Mn and doped Ce is small compared with that between Sb and Ce in MnSb(Ce). The influence to the magneto-optical property of MnSb by the doped Ce is discussed. It is expected that the Sb-5p polarization caused by Ce will make MnSb(Ce) a promising magneto-optical material. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Zhang Long: born in Nov. 1972, Master     

Synthesis and spectroscopy of nitridoruthenium (VI) and osmium (VI) porphyrins

Reaction of Ru (4-Cl-TPP) (CO) (MeOH) [4-Cl-TPP = meso-kis (4-chlorophenyl) porphyrinato dianion] with 3-chloroperoxybenzoic acid (m-CPBA) followed by treatment of the mixture with an aqueous ammonia solution afforded the first nitrido ruthenium porphyrin Ru(4-Cl-TPP) (N) (OH). Three new nitrido osmium (VI) porphyrins, Os (Por) (N) (OH) (Por=TPP, TTP, and 4-Cl-TPP), were synthesized from oxidation of Os(Por)(NH₃)₂ withm-CPBA. All these new complexes were characterized by¹H NMR, IR, UV/Visible spectra and elemental analyses. Both nitrido ruthenium (VI) and osmium (VI) porphyrins are diamagnetic. Their pyrrole proton resonances appear at slightly lower fields than those of the corresponding dioxo Ru(VI) and Os(VI) porphyrins. The {ie89-1}, or {ie89-2}, region is obscured by the strong “oxidation state marker” band. Li Zaoying: born in July 1949, associate professor. Curent research interest is in the study on synthesis and properties of macrocyclic polyamine and complexes     

Tunable multiple-channel filters based on photonic heterostructures using single-negative materials

We studied the multiple-channel filters based on photonic heterostructures consisting of single-negative permittivity and single-negative permeability media. The results showed that the number of resonance modes inside the zero-φeff gap increases as the number of heterogenous interface M increases. The number of resonance modes inside the zero-φeff, gap is equal to that of heterogenous interface M, and it can be used as M channels filter. This result provides a feasible method to adjust the channel number of multiple-channel filters. When losses are involved, the results showed that the electric fields of the resonance modes decay largely with the increase of the number of heterogenous interface and damping factors. Besides, the relationship between the quality factor of multiple-channel filters and the number of heterogenous interface M is linear, and the quality factor of multiple-channel filters decreases with the increase of the damping factor. These results provide feasible methods to adjust the quality factor of multiple-channel filters.