Barik, A.; Triana, S. A.; Hoff, M.; Wicht, J.: Transition to turbulence in the wide-gap spherical Couette system. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1001, p. A1 (2024)
Wulff, P.; Dietrich, W.; Christensen, U. R.; Wicht, J.: Zonal winds in the gas planets driven by convection above a stably stratified layer. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 517 (4), pp. 5584 - 5593 (2022)
Dietrich, W.; Kumar, S.; Poser, A. J.; French, M.; Nettelmann, N.; Redmer, R.; Wicht, J.: Magnetic induction processes in hot Jupiters, application to KELT-9b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 517, pp. 3113 - 3125 (2022)
Dietrich, W.; Wulff, P.; Wicht, J.; Christensen, U. R.: Linking zonal winds and gravity – II. Explaining the equatorially antisymmetric gravity moments of Jupiter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 505 (3), pp. 3177 - 3191 (2021)
Kumar, S.; Poser, A. J.; Schoettler, M.; Kleinschmidt, U.; Dietrich, W.; Wicht, J.; French, M.; Redmer, R.: Ionization and transport in partially ionized multicomponent plasmas: Application to atmospheres of hot Jupiters. Physical Review E 103 (6), 063203 (2021)
Lago, R.; Gastine, T.; Dannert, T.; Rampp, M.; Wicht, J.: MagIC v5.10: a two-dimensional message-passing interface (MPI) distribution for pseudo-spectral magnetohydrodynamics simulations in spherical geometry. Geoscientific Model Development 14, pp. 7477 - 7495 (2021)
Meduri, D. G.; Biggin, A. J.; Davies, C. J.; Bono, R. K.; Sprain, C. J.; Wicht, J.: Numerical Dynamo Simulations Reproduce Paleomagnetic Field Behavior. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (5), e2020GL090544 (2021)
Baerenzung, J.; Holschneider, M.; Wicht, J.; Lesur, V.; Sanchez, S.: The Kalmag model as a candidate for IGRF-13. Earth, Planets, and Space 72 (1), 163 (2020)
Christensen, U. R.; Wicht, J.; Dietrich, W.: Mechanisms for Limiting the Depth of Zonal Winds in the Gas Giant Planets. The Astrophysical Journal 890 (1), 61 (2020)
Ranjan, A.; Davidson, P. A.; Christensen, U. R.; Wicht, J.: On the generation and segregation of helicity in geodynamo simulations. Geophysical journal international 221 (2), pp. 741 - 757 (2020)
Sanchez, S.; Wicht, J.; Bärenzung, J.: Predictions of the geomagnetic secular variation based on the ensemble sequential assimilation of geomagnetic field models by dynamo simulations. Earth, Planets, and Space 72 (1), 157 (2020)
Wicht, J.; Dietrich, W.; Wulff, P.; Christensen, U. R.: Linking zonal winds and gravity: the relative importance of dynamic self-gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492 (3), pp. 3364 - 3374 (2020)
Bouffard, M.; Choblet, G.; Labrosse, S.; Wicht, J.: Chemical Convection and Stratification in the Earth's Outer Core. Frontiers in Earth Science 7 (April 2019), 99 (2019)
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".
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.