Cheng, X.; Xing, C.; Aulanier, G.; Solanki, S. K.; Peter, H.; Ding, M. D.: Deciphering the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Coronal Mass Ejection. The Astrophysical Journal 954, p. L47 (2023)
Zhang, J.; Tian, H.; Zarka, P.; Louis, C. K.; Lu, H.; Gao, D.; Sun, X.; Yu, S.; Chen, B.; Cheng, X.et al.; Wang, K.: Fine Structures of Radio Bursts from Flare Star AD Leo with FAST Observations. The Astrophysical Journal 953, p. 65 (2023)
Wang, W.Y.; Cheng, X.; Ren, Z.N.; Ding, M.D.: Current-sheet Oscillations Caused by the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Loop Top of Solar Flares. Astrophysical Journal Letters 931 (2) (2022)
Li, Z. F.; Cheng, X.; Chen, F.; Chen, J.; Ding, M. D.: Three-dimensional Magnetic and Thermodynamic Structures of Solar Microflares. The Astrophysical Journal 930, p. L7 (2022)
Chitta, L. P.; Priest, E. R.; Cheng, X.: From Formation to Disruption: Observing the Multiphase Evolution of a Solar Flare Current Sheet. The Astrophysical Journal 911 (2), 133 (2021)
Li, Z. F.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M. D.; Reeves, K. K.; Kittrell, D.; Weber, M.; McKenzie, D. E.: Thermodynamic Evolution of Solar Flare Supra-arcade Downflows. The Astrophysical Journal 915 (2), 124 (2021)
Huang, Z.W.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M.D.: The kinematic evolution of erupting structures in confined solar flares. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 904 (1), L2 (2020)
Kou, Y. K.; Jing, Z. C.; Cheng, X.; Pan, W. Q.; Liu, Y.; Li, C.; Ding, M. D.: What Determines Solar Flares Producing Interplanetary Type III Radio Bursts? The Astrophysical Journal Letters 898 (1), L24 (2020)
Nindos, A.; Patsourakos, S.; Vourlidas, A.; Cheng, X.; Zhang, J.: When do solar erupting hot magnetic flux ropes form? Astronomy and Astrophysics 642, A109 (2020)
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".