Karlapp, J.; Heller, R.; Tajmar, M.: Ultrafast transfer of low-mass payloads to Mars and beyond using aerographite solar sails. Acta Astronautica 219, pp. 889 - 895 (2024)
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)
First Light! The spectro-polarimeter of the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii looks at the Sun for the first time. The instrument was developed in Germany.
Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos receives award by the European Space Weather and Space Climate Association for his research findings on the historical activity of the Sun.
The Zdenĕk Švetska Senior Prize of the Solar Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) recognizes Solanki’s pioneering contributions to solar research.
Application deadline 1 October 2024. PhD projects in planetary science, solar and stellar physics, solar magnetism, heliophysics, helioseismology, asteroseismology, ...