Wei Liu

Now moved to hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/~weiliu/

I was a PhD candidate at the Department of Physics, Stanford University, working with Professor Vahé Petrosian (see the group home page here) on particle acceleration in solar flares toward my thesis. I previously worked as a research assistant at the Stanford Solar Physics Group. G

Here is my PhD Thesis (PDF, PS)

Research Interests :

Evidence of chromospheric evaporation revealed by RHESSI:
astro-ph/0603510, PDF, (ApJ, 649, No. 1, Sept 20, 2006, in press).
2003 Oct - Nov X-class flares:
E-print: RHESSI Observations of a Simple Large X-ray Flare on 11-03-2003 ( ADS, PDF)
(ApJ, 611, L53-L56, August 10, 2004)
Particle accelerations in solar flares - RHESSI data analysis and modeling.
See my 2003 AAS/SPD Poster ( HTML, PDF) on a statistical study of hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy of limb flare loop top and foot point sources, in an effort to put constraints on our particle acceleratoin models.
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) modeling.
(1) A numerical MHD study on the relationship between magnetic topologies and two-class CMEs:
(ADS, astro-ph/0511023)
(2) A cone model for CME velocity determination:
Zhao, Plunkett, & Liu, 2002 (JGR, 107, 1223); 2001 COSPAR poster (PDF)
Data analysis of SOHO/MDI magnetograms
(1) 2001 Spring AGU Poster.
(2) Link to Solar mean magnetic field variability: A wavelet approach to Wilcox Solar Observatory and SOHO/Michelson Doppler Imager observations, Boberg et al., JGR, 2002.

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Contact Me :

Work Phone: +1-650-723-1372
Fax: 650-723-4840
Homepage: http://sun.stanford.edu/~weiliu
Address:
Room 308, Varian Physics Bldg
Stanford University
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060