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)
Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Rodenbeck, K.: Transit least-squares survey: II. Discovery and validation of 17 new sub- to super-Earth-sized planets in multi-planet systems from K2. Astronomy and Astrophysics 627, A66 (2019)
Heller, R.; Rodenbeck, K.; Bruno, G.: An alternative interpretation of the exomoon candidate signal in the combined Kepler and Hubble data of Kepler-1625. Astronomy and Astrophysics 624, A95 (2019)
Heller, R.; Rodenbeck, K.; Hippke, M.: Transit least-squares survey: I. Discovery and validation of an Earth-sized planet in the four-planet system K2-32 near the 1:2:5:7 resonance. Astronomy and Astrophysics 625, A31 (2019)
Hippke, M.; David, T. J.; Mulders, G. D.; Heller, R.: Wōtan: Comprehensive Time-series Detrending in Python. The Astronomical Journal 158 (4), 143 (2019)
Hippke, M.; Heller, R.: Optimized transit detection algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets. Astronomy and Astrophysics 623, A39 (2019)
Forgan, D. H.; Heller, R.; Hippke, M.: Photogravimagnetic assists of light sails: a mixed blessing for Breakthrough Starshot? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474 (3), pp. 3212 - 3220 (2018)
Haqq-Misra, J.; Heller, R.: Exploring exomoon atmospheres with an idealized general circulation model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479 (3), pp. 3477 - 3489 (2018)
Heller, R.; Jacob, R.; Schönberner, D.; Steffen, M.: Hot bubbles of planetary nebulae with hydrogen-deficient winds: II. Analytical approximations with application to BD + 30°3639. Astronomy and Astrophysics 620, A98 (2018)
Rodenbeck, K.; Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Gizon, L.: Revisiting the exomoon candidate signal around Kepler 1625 b. Astronomy and Astrophysics 617, A49 (2018)
Wells, R.; Poppenhaeger, K.; Watson, C.A.; Heller, R.: Transit visibility zones of the Solar system planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 473 (1), pp. 345 - 354 (2018)
Heller, R.: Relativistic generalization of the incentive trap of interstellar travel with application to Breakthrough Starshot. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 470, pp. 3664 - 3671 (2017)
Zollinger, R. R.; Armstrong, J. C.; Heller, R.: Exomoon Habitability and Tidal Evolution in Low-Mass Star Systems. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 472, pp. 8 - 25 (2017)
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.