Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Two-stage Electron Acceleration by 3D Collisionless Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 864 (1), 92 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Kinetic turbulence in fast three-dimensional collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection. Physical Review E 98 (4), 043205 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Jain, N.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: A new hybrid code (CHIEF) implementing the inertial electron fluid equation without approximation. Computer Physics Communications 224, pp. 245 - 264 (2018)
Silva, S. S. A.; Santos, J. C.; Büchner, J.; Alves, M. V.: Nonlocal heat flux effects on temperature evolution of the solar atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics 615, A32 (2018)
Yang, S.; Büchner, J.; Skála, J.; Zhang, H.: Evolution of relative magnetic helicity: New boundary conditions for the vector potential. Astronomy and Astrophysics 613, A27 (2018)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Spreading of electron scale magnetic reconnection with a wave number dependent speed due to the propagation of dispersive waves. Physics of Plasmas 24 (8), 082304 (2017)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.; Muñoz, P. A.: Nonlinear evolution of electron shear flow instabilities in the presence of an external guide magnetic field. Physics of Plasmas 24 (3), 032303 (2017)
Jain, N.; von Stechow, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Grulke, O.; Klinger, T.: Electron-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electron scale current sheet dynamics in the VINETA. II guide field reconnection experiment. Physics of Plasmas 24 (9), 092312 (2017)
Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions due to self-generated turbulence in collisionless guide-field reconnection. Physics of Plasmas 23 (10), 102103 (2016)
Zhou, X.; Buechner, J.; Barta, M.; Gan, W.; Liu, S.: Electron Acceleration by Cascading Reconnection in the Solar Corona. II. Resistive Electric Field Effects. Astrophysical Journal 827 (2), 94 (2016)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.: Effect of guide field on three-dimensional electron shear flow instabilities in electron current sheets. Journal of Plasma Physics 81, 905810606 (2015)
Muñoz, P. A.; Told, D.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.; Jenko, F.: Gyrokinetic and kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field reconnection. I. Macroscopic effects of the electron flows. Physics of Plasmas 22 (8), 082110 (2015)
Skála, J.; Baruffa, F.; Büchner, J.; Rampp, M.: The 3D MHD code GOEMHD3 for astrophysical plasmas with large Reynolds numbers Code description, verification, and computational performance. Astronomy and Astrophysics 580, A48 (2015)
Zhou, X.; Büchner, J.; Bárta, M.; Gan, W.; Liu, S.: Electron Acceleration by Cascading Reconnection in the Solar Corona. I. Magnetic Gradient and Curvature Drift Effects. Astrophysical Journal 815 (1), 6 (2015)
The Uranian magnetic field is more expansive than previously thought, according to newly analyzed data from Voyager 2, making it easier to search for moons with oceans.
The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP).
The MPS instruments on board ESA’s JUICE spacecraft have successfully completed their commissioning in space - and delivered their first observational data.
A collision nearly 30 years ago permanently changed Jupiter's atmospheric chemistry; the aftermath is still helping to better understand the gas giant.
The launch was successful; the ESA’s space probe JUICE is now on its way to the Jupiter system. There, it will primarily study the gas giant's icy moons.
ESA's space probe is on the move: First it heads for the launch site in Kourou - and in April it will begin its long journey to Jupiter and its icy moons.