
南京大学教授、博士生导师,南京大学和巴黎十一大理学博士、伦敦大学学院博士后。研究领域为太阳物理和空间天气,先后主持国家自然科学基金青年、面上和重点项目,以及多项省部级科研项目。获江苏省行业领域十大科技进展等奖项,入选江苏省“333工程”中青年科技领军人才,担任我国首颗太阳探测科学技术试验卫星(“羲和号”)科学与应用系统总设计师、中国空间科学学会空间天文专业委员会副主任委员。
《空间天气学》、《日球物理导论》等核心课程。
Project 1: Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE)
The Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE), dubbed "Xihe" -- Goddess of the Sun, was launched on October 14, 2021 as the first solar space mission of China National Space Administration (CNSA). The CHASE mission is designed to test a new satellite platform and conduct solar observations. The scientific payload of the CHASE mission is an Hα Imaging Spectrograph (HIS) which acquires spectroscopic observations at Hα (655.97 - 656.59 nm) and Fe I (656.78 - 657.06 nm) wavebands. A full-Sun scanning takes ~46 seconds, with a spectral sampling of 0.0024 nm and a spatial resolution of 1.2 arcsec. The science data are available to the community through the Solar Science Data Center of Nanjing University: https://ssdc.nju.edu.cn
Publications:
Topical Issue in SCPMA:
Special topic of CHASE mission
Focus Issue in ApJ Letters:
Focus on early results of CHASE
Li C., Fang C., Li Z., Ding M. D., Chen P. F., Qiu Y., et al. The Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE) mission: An overview, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron., 65, 289602, 2022
Qiu Y., Rao S. H., Li C., Fang C., Ding M. D., Li Z., et al., Calibration procedures for the CHASE/HIS science data, Sci. China-Phys. Mech. Astron., 65, 289603, 2022
Fang C., Li C., Introduction to the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE) mission, Chin. J. Space Sci., 42, 546, 2022
Li C., Tian H., Huang Y., New era of Chinese solar instruments, Sci China Tech Sci, 66, 1203, 2023
Li C., Fang C., Li Z., et al., Chinese Hα Solar Explorer (CHASE) -- a complementary space mission to the ASO-S, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 (11), 165, 2019
Project 2:Solar energetic particles (SEPs)
SEPs, with energies from a few keV to several GeV, are produced by the release of magnetic energy on the Sun, notably flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). What I am interested is to clarify where and how SEPs are accelerated and to understand the processes of propagation for different species of SEPs.
Selected publications:
Chen, X. M., Li, C., Three-stage acceleration of solar energetic particles detected by Parker Solar Probe, ApJ Letters, 967, 33, 2024
Li, T. M., Li, C., Ding, W. J., Chen, P. F., Particle-in-cell simulation of 3He enrichment in solar energetic particles, ApJ, 922, 50, 2021
Xu, Z. G., Li, C., Ding, M. D., Observations of a coronal shock wave and the production of solar energetic particles, ApJ, 840, 38, 2017
Li, C., Firoz, K. A., Sun, L. P., Miroshnichenko, L. I., Electron and proton acceleration during the first ground level enhancement event of solar cycle 24, ApJ, 770, 34, 2013
Li, C., Owen, S. J., Matthews, S. A., Dai, Y., Tang, Y. H., Major electron events and coronal magnetic configurations of the related solar active regions, ApJ Letters, 720, 36, 2010
Li, C., Dai, Y., Vial J.-C., et al., Solar source of energetic particles in interplanetary space during the 2006 December 13 event, A&A, 503, 1013, 2009
Li, C., Tang, Y. H., Dai, Y., Fang, C., Vial, J. -C., Flare magnetic reconnection and relativistic particles in the 2003 October 28 event, A&A, 472, 283, 2007
Li, C., Tang, Y. H., Dai, Y., Zong, W. G., Fang, C., The acceleration characteristics of solar energetic particles in the 2000 July 14 event, A&A, 461, 1115, 2007
Project 3: SOC processes in astrophysics
The power-law frequency distributions are ubiquitous in the Universe. Self-organized criticality (SOC) and turbulence are the two intrinsic physical processes during the energy release in a nonlinear dynamical system. Both of them can produce eruptive events with power laws. What I am interested is to understand the roles of SOC and turbulence in astrophysical eruptions.
Selected publications:
Li, C., Wang, W. B., Chen, P. F., Observations and simulations of self-organized criticality phenomena in astrophysics, Sci Sin-Phys Mech Astron, 52, 269501, 2022
Wang, W. B., Li, C., Tu, Z. L., Guo, J. H., Chen, P. F., Wang, F. Y., Avalanches of magnetic flux rope in the state of self-organized criticality, MNRAS, 512, 1567, 2022
Lei, W. H., Li, C., Chen, F., Zhong, S. J., Xu, Z. G., Chen, P. F., Do the solar flares originating from an individual active region follow a random process or a memory-dependent correlation? MNRAS, 494, 975, 2020
Li, C., Zhong, S. J., Xu, Z. G., et al., Waiting time distributions of solar and stellar flares: Poisson process or with memory?, MNRAS, 479, L139, 2018
Li, C. Z., Yang, J. H., Li, C., et al., Self-organized criticality of the solar eruptions during solar cycle 23 (in Chinese). Sci Sin-Phys Mech Astron, 2016, 46: 029501
Li, C., Zhong, S. J., Wang, L., Su, W., Fang, C., Waiting time distributions of solar energetic particle events modeled with a non-stationary Poisson process, ApJ Letters, 792, L26, 2014
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