Publications

Wei Liu's NASA ADS: Articles, All (articles + abstracts)

• 2009

  Liu, Wei; Petrosian, Vahé; Mariska, John T. "Combined Modeling of Acceleration, Transport, and Hydrodynamic Response in Solar Flares. I. The Numerical Model", 2009, ApJ, 702, 1553-1566. (ADS, PDF)

  Liu, Wei; Wang, Tong-Jiang; Dennis, Brian R.; Holman, Gordon D. "Episodic X-Ray Emission Accompanying the Activation of an Eruptive Prominence: Evidence of Episodic Magnetic Reconnection", 2009, ApJ, 698, 632-640. (ADS, PDF)

  Liu, Wei; Petrosian, Vahé; Dennis, Brian R.; Holman, Gordon D. "Conjugate Hard X-Ray Footpoints in the 2003 October 29 X10 Flare: Unshearing Motions, Correlations, and Asymmetries", 2009, ApJ, 693, 847-867. (ADS, PDF)

• 2008

  Liu, Wei. "Solar Flares as Natural Particle Accelerators: A High-energy View from X-ray Observations and Theoretical Models", monograph based on my PhD Thesis, published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (Saarbrücken, Germany), July 2008, ISBN: 978-3-8364-7432-0, 252 pages. (ADS, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Free Download PDF)

  Liu, Wei; Petrosian, Vahé; Dennis, Brian R.; Jiang, Yan-Wei. "Double Coronal Hard and Soft X-Ray Source Observed by RHESSI: Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares", 2008, ApJ, 676, 704-716. (ADS, PDF)

• 2007

  Liu, Wei; Petrosian, Vahé. "Double Coronal Hard X-ray Source", Oct. 2007, RHESSI Science Nuggets. (Online)

• 2006

  Liu, Wei. "Characteristics of Solar Flare Hard X-ray Emissions: Observations and Models", Dec. 2006, Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University (Advisor: Petrosian, Vahé). Published by Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2007, Section 0212, Part 0373, 224 pages; Publication Number: AAT 3242584; ISBN: 9780542984037; ProQuest document ID: 1246584791. (ADS, UMI/Proquest, PDF)

  Liu, W., Liu, S., Jiang, Y. W., Petrosian, V. "RHESSI Observation of Chromospheric Evaporation", 2006, ApJ, Vol. 649, 1124-1139. (ADS, PDF)

  Jiang, Yan Wei; Liu, Siming; Liu, Wei; Petrosian, Vahé. "Evolution of the Loop-Top Source of Solar Flares--Heating and Cooling Processes". 2006, ApJ, 638, 1140-1153. (ADS, astro-ph/0508532)

• 2005

  Liu, W., Zhao, X. P., Wu, S. T., & Scherrer, P. H. "Magnetic Topologies and Two-class Coronal Mass Ejections: a Numerical Magnetohydrodynamic Study" 2005, astro-ph/0511023 (ADS).

• 2004

  Liu, Wei, Yan-Wei Jiang, Siming Liu, & Vahé Petrosian. "RHESSI Observations of a Simple Large X-ray Flare on 2003 November 3", 2004, ApJ Letters, 611, L53-L56. (ADS, PDF)

• Pre-2003

  Liu, Wei, Xue-Pu Zhao, Shi Tsan Wu, and Philip H. Scherrer, " Effects of Magnetic Topology on CME Kinematic Properties (PDF)", Proceedings of International Solar Cycle Studies (ISCS) Symposium 2003: Solar Variability as an Input to the Earth's Environment, June 23-28, 2003, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic. Ed.: A. Wilson, pp. 459-464 (ESA SP Series 535, Sept. 2003, ISBN 92-9092-845-X ).

  Liu, Wei, Yan-Wei Jiang, Vahé Petrosian, and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Statistical Study of Limb Flares Observed by RHESSI: Imaging (PDF, PS), AAS/SPD 2003 meeting, June 16-20, 2003, Laurel, Maryland.

  Boberg, Fredrik; Lundstedt, Henrik; Hoeksema, J. Todd; Scherrer, Philip H.; Liu, Wei Solar mean magnetic field variability: A wavelet approach to Wilcox Solar Observatory and SOHO/Michelson Doppler Imager observations, Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), Vol. 107, No. A10, doi: 1318, 10.1029/2001JA009195, 2002

  Zhao, Xue-Pu, Simon P. Plunkett, and Wei Liu, " Determination of geometrical and kinematical properties of halo coronal mass ejection using the cone model" (PDF), Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), Vol. 107, No. A8, 1223, 10.1029/2001JA009143, 2002.

  Liu, Wei, Simon P. Plunkett, Xue-Pu Zhao, A Cone Model for Coronal Mass Ejections (PS), in COSPAR Colloquia Series, 14 : Solar-Terrestrial Magnetic Activity and Space Environment, edited by H. Wang and R. Xu, pp. 267-269, Elsevier, 2002 (meeting: September 10-12, 2001, Beijing, P. R. China).

  Liu, Wei, Yang Liu, Xue-Pu Zhao, Philip H. Scherrer, Are the Signals in the Sun's Mean Magnetic Field Associated With Coronal Mass Ejections? (PDF, PS), AGU 2001 Spring Meeting, May 29 - June 2, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Hu, You-Qiu, Yan-Wei Jiang, and Wei Liu, Coronal Magnetic Flux Rope Equilibria and Magnetic Helicity (PDF), Chinese Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 1, pp. 77-84, 2001.
  Hu, You-Qiu and Wei Liu, A 2.5-dimensional Ideal Magnetohydrodynamic Model for Coronal Magnetic Flux Ropes (PDF), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 540, No. 2, pp. 1119-1125, September, 2000. Click here to view the movie of the evolution of a magnetic flux rope.
  Chen, Yao; Zhong-Yuan Li; Wei Liu; and Zhi-Dong Shi, Solitary Kinetic Alfvén Waves in The Inertial Limit Region (PDF), Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 371-374, January, 2000.
  Liu, Wei, You-Qiu Hu, Li-Dong Xia, and Yu-Lin Yang, Prominence Disturbance Caused by Magnetic Cancellation, Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 365-373, 2000. (Also Chinese version in Acta Astrophysica Sinica, Vol. 20, No. 2, April, 2000.)
  Yang, Yu-Lin, Shao-Liang Liu, You Qiu-Hu, and Wei Liu, Numerical Study of Propagation Properties of Interplanetary Shocks, Acta Geophysica Sinica , 2000.
  Hu, You-Qiu, and Wei Liu, Eruption of Emerged Magnetic Flux Ropes from The Photosphere, in Proceedings of The First Franco-Chinese Meeting on Solar Physics, edited by C. Fang, J. C. Hénoux, M. D. Ding, pp. 1, International Academic Publishers, Beijing, 1999 (Conference at Xi-an, P. R. China, November, 1999).
  Huang, Chun-Feng, Hong-Ling Rao, and Wei Liu, Design of a System for Preventing Air Traffic Collision, Chinese Mathematics in Practice and Theory, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1996.

(Last modified Sept. 05, 2009)