Ramanath, S.; Schühle, U.: The role of purged bakeout method in achieving the required cleanliness for the polarimetric and helioseismic imager on the Solar Orbiter mission. In: Proceedings of Spie, Vol. 11489, 1148907. (2020)
Ramanath, S.; Schühle, U.: Efficiency of Bakeout Methods for Space Materials. International Symposium on Materials in the Space Environment (ISMSE) and the 12th International Conference on Protection of Materials from Space Environment (ICPMSE), Biarritz, France (2018)
How does our star heat its outer atmosphere, the solar corona, to unimaginable temperatures of up to 10 million degrees Celsius? With unprecedented observational data from ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft and powerful computer simulations, ERC starting grant awardee Pradeep Chitta intends to bring new momentum to the search for the coronal heating mechanism.
The research group “Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism” (SLAM) studies the conditions and dynamic processes in the atmospheric layer between the solar surface (photosphere) and the overlying chromosphere, an approximately 2000 km thick gas layer.
The main research fields of the department "Sun and Heliosphere" are covered by the research groups "Solar and Stellar Coronae", "Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism", "Solar and Stellar Magnetohydrodynamics" and "Solar Variability and Climate".