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Research: Solar Wind.

Short summary of research: My research is focused on the turbulence, wave-particle interaction, magnetic reconnection, and particle acceleration and transport in the solar wind from the near-Sun region to the outer heliosphere. I mainly use observational data to make new discoveries, from cutting-edge spacecrafts, e.g., MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, as well as classical spacecrafts, e.g., Wind and Voyager. I have proposed the formation mechanism of the non-field-aligned proton beam in the solar wind using linear wave theory. I've also studied the wave-vector anisotropy in the near-Sun region and found that the wavevector sharply transits from quasi-parallel to quasi-perpendicular at kdp~0.02. I've also studied the turbulence anisotropy evolution using multiple spacecraft alignment and nearly-incompressible MHD theory and found the growing importance of 2D turbulence. I have found the change of turbulence anisotropy across the ionization cavity which is on account of the fluctuations induced by pickup ions.

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