Limbach, M. A.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Vanderburg, A.; Best, W. M. J.; Cody, A. M.; D'Onghia, E.; Heller, R.; Hensley, B. S.; Kounkel, M.; Kraus, A.et al.; Mann, A. W.; Robberto, M.; Rosen, A. L.; Townsend, R.; Vos, J. M.: The TEMPO Survey. I. Predicting Yields of Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30 days Survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 135, p. 014401 (2023)
Vilović, I.; Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.: Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth's biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon. Scientific Reports 13, p. 12663 (2023)
Heller, R.; Harre, J.-V.; Samadi, R.: Transit least-squares survey. IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics 665, p. A11 (2022)
Heller, R.; Duda, J.-P.; Winkler, M.; Reitner, J.; Gizon, L.: Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer Moon. Paläontologische Zeitschrift (2021)
Limbach, M. A.; Vos, J. M.; Winn, J. N.; Heller, R.; Mason, J. C.; Schneider, A. C.; Dai, F.: On the Detection of Exomoons Transiting Isolated Planetary-mass Objects. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 918, L25 (2021)
Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Freudenthal, J.; Rodenbeck, K.; Batalha, N. M.; Bryson, S.: Transit least-squares survey: III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 638, A10 (2020)
Jones, M. H.; Haswell, C. A.; Barnes, J. R.; Staab, D.; Heller, R.: A Possible Transit of a Disintegrating Exoplanet in the Nearby Multiplanet System DMPP-1. Astrophysical Journal, Letters 895 (1), L17 (2020)
Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.; Guinan, E.: In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World. Astrobiology 20 (12) (2020)
Heller, R.: Analytic solutions to the maximum and average exoplanet transit depth for common stellar limb darkening laws. Astronomy and Astrophysics 623, A137 (2019)
Heller, R.: Decryption of messages from extraterrestrial intelligence using the power of social media– the SETI Decrypt Challenge. International Journal of Astrobiology 18 (4), pp. 296 - 303 (2019)
Application deadline 1 October 2024. PhD projects in planetary science, solar and stellar physics, solar magnetism, heliophysics, helioseismology, asteroseismology, ...
First Light for Sunrise III: the first tests with real sunlight were successful. The balloon-borne solar observatory should be ready for launch at the end of May.
In analyzing solar observations from the 19th century, scientists are turning to amateur researchers for help. The project will allow to better understand the history of our star.
Astronomical teamwork: By combining data from Solar Orbiter and SDO, a group of researchers has unambiguously determined the magnetic field at the solar surface.
Application deadline 1 October 2023. PhD projects in planetary science, solar and stellar physics, solar magnetism, heliophysics, helioseismology, asteroseismology, ...
Philipp Löschl has co-authored an excellent publication on Solar Orbiter data which has been awarded best Solar Physics paper of 2022 (Gherardo Valori et al. 2022)