《空間物理中的若干前沿科學問題》共分為兩部分，**部分涉及太陽及行星際物理，包括日冕和太陽風加熱、日冕物質拋射及其行星際演化等。第二部分涉及磁層物理，包括地球和行星磁層中的一些物理過程。每一部分均包含理論和觀測方面的文章。

《空間物理中的若干前沿科學問題》的集結出版是為了慶祝中國科學 技術大學50周年華誕，所選論文的第一作者均為中國科學技術大學 的畢業生校友。反映了這些校友在空間物理各個研究領域中的最新成就。 《空間物理中的若干前沿科學問題》共分為兩部分，每一部分開頭都 有導言，然後是相關論文。第一部分涉及太陽及行星際物理，包括日 冕和太陽風加熱、日冕物質拋射及其行星際演化等。第二部分涉及磁層物 理，包括地球和行星磁層中的一些物 理過程。每一部分均包含理論和觀測方面的文章。 本書可供空間物理、太陽物理、等離子體物理及相關專業的本科生、 研究生以及科研人員閱讀。

Preface to the USTC Alumni's Series
Preface
Part One Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Introduction
A fast solar wind model with anisotropic proton temperature
On the cascade processes of Alfven waves in the fast solar wind
Transition region, coronal heating and the fast solar wind
A global 2.5-dimensional three fluid solar wind model with alpha particles
Ion pickup by finite amplitude parallel propagating Alfvcn waves
Formation of minor-ion charge states in the fast solar wind: Roles of differential flow speeds of ions of the same element
Stagnated outflow of O+5 ions in the source region of the slow solar wind at solar minimum
On the outflow in an equatorial coronal hole
Time series study of EUV spicules observed by SUMER/SOHO
Heating of ions by Alfven waves via nonresonant interactions
RHESSI observation of chromospheric evaporation
RHESSI hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy of extended sources and the physical properties of electron acceleration regions in solar flares
Equilibrium and catastrophe of coronal flux ropes in axisymmetrical magnetic field
A new non-pressure-balanced structure in interplanetary space: Boundary layers of magnetic clouds
Global distribution of coronal mass outputs and its relation to solar magnetic field structures
Identification of the magnetic cloud boundary layers
Magnetic structures inside boundary layers of magnetic clouds
Characteristics of the interplanetary coronal mass ejections in the heliosphere between 0.3 and 5.4 AU
Development of a strong shock in the outer heliosphere
Reconstruction of magnetic flux ropes in the solar wind
Multiple flux rope magnetic ejecta in the solar wind :
Multiple magnetic clouds. Several examples during March - April 2001
Part Two Magnetospheric Physics
Introduction
On the ionospheric and reconnection potentials of the earth. Results from global MHD simulations
Electromagnetic waves downstream of quasi-perpendicular shocks
Magnetic spectral signatures in the terrestrial plasma depletion layer. Hybrid simulations
Whistler wave instabilities in collisionless current sheet
Joint observations by Cluster satellites of bursty bulk flows in the magnetotail
Variations of 0.7 - 6.0 MeV electrons at geosynchronous orbit as a function of solar wind
Correlation between the inner edge of outer radiation belt electrons and the innermost plasmapause location
Whistler instability threshold condition of energetic electrons by kappa distribution in space plasmas
Relativistic diffusion coefficients for superluminous (auroral kilometric radiation) wave modes in space plasmas
Polar cap arcs. a review
Diurnal tides in mesosphere/low-thermosphere (MLT) during 2002 at Wuhan (30.6°N, 114.4°E) using Canonical Correlation Analysis
Response of the magnetic field in the geosynchronous orbit to solar wind dynamic pressure pulses
Nongyrotropy of heavy newborn ions at comet Grigg-Skjellerup and corresponding instability
Three-dimensional, multispecies, high spatial resolution MHD studies of the solar wind interaction with Mars
Comparisons between MHD model calculations and observations of Cassini flybys of Titan