Syntelis, P.; Priest, E. R.; Chitta, L. P.: A Cancellation Nanoflare Model for Solar Chromospheric and Coronal Heating. II. 2D Theory and Simulations. Astrophysical Journal 872 (1), 32 (2019)
Barczynski, K.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.; Solanki, S. K.: Emission of solar chromospheric and transition region features related to the underlying magnetic field. Astronomy and Astrophysics 619, A5 (2018)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Solanki, S. K.: Nature of the energy source powering solar coronal loops driven by nanoflares. Astronomy and Astrophysics 615, L9 (2018)
Li, L.; Zhang, J.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.; Su, J.; Song, H.; Xia, C.; Hou, Y.: Quasi-periodic Fast Propagating Magnetoacoustic Waves during the Magnetic Reconnection Between Solar Coronal Loops. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 868 (2), L33 (2018)
Li, L.; Zhang, J.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.; Su, J.; Xia, C.; Song, H.; Hou, Y.: Coronal Condensations Caused by Magnetic Reconnection between Solar Coronal Loops. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 864 (1), L4 (2018)
Priest, E. R.; Chitta, L. P.; Syntelis, P.: A Cancellation Nanoflare Model for Solar Chromospheric and Coronal Heating. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 862 (2), L24 (2018)
Young, P. R.; Tian, H.; Peter, H.; Rutten, R. J.; Nelson, C. J.; Huang, Z.; Schmieder, B.; Vissers, G. J. M.; Toriumi, S.; van der Voort, L. H. M. R.et al.; Madjarska, M. S.; Danilovic, S.; Berlicki, A.; Chitta, L. P.; Cheung, M. C. M.; Madsen, C.; Reardon, K. P.; Katsukawa, Y.; Heinzel, P.: Solar Ultraviolet Bursts. Space Science Reviews 214, 120 (2018)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Young, P. R.; Huang, Y.-M.: Compact solar UV burst triggered in a magnetic field with a fan-spine topology. Astronomy and Astrophysics 605, A49 (2017)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Solanki, S.: Coronal loop footpoints threaded with small-scale mixed polarity surface magnetic fields. SOLARNET IV: The Physics of the Sun from the Interior to the Outer Atmosphere, Lanzarote, Spain (2017)
Cilla, A. A.; Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.: Rotational motion in transition region loops. 8th Coronal Loops Workshop: many facets of magnetically closed corona, Palermo, Italy (2017)
Cilla, A. A.; Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.: Signs of helical transition region loops embedded in filament channels. Rocks \& Stars II, Göttingen, Germany (2017)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Young, P. R.: Chromospheric response to prolonged small-scale reconnections. IRIS-6: The Chromosphere, Stockholm, Sweden (2016)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Young, P. R.: A closer look at the footpoints of coronal loops rooted in a sunspot umbra. Hinode 9 Science Meeting, Belfast, Ireland (2015)
Cilla, A. A.; Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.: Signs of helical transition region loops embedded in filament channels. European Solar Physics Meeting, Budapest, Hungary (2017)
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".