Schou, J.; Birch, A.: Estimating the nonstructural component of the helioseismic surface term using hydrodynamic simulations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 638, A51 (2020)
Birch, A.; Schunker, H.; Braun, D. C.; Gizon, L.: Average surface flows before the formation of solar active regions and their relationship to the supergranulation pattern. Astronomy and Astrophysics 628, A37 (2019)
Langfellner, J.; Birch, A.; Gizon, L.: Evolution and wave-like properties of the average solar supergranule. Astronomy and Astrophysics 617, A97 (2018)
Liang, Z.-C.; Gizon, L.; Birch, A.; Duvall, T.; Rajaguru, S. P.: Solar meridional circulation from twenty-one years of SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI observations: Helioseismic travel times and forward modeling in the ray approximation. Astronomy and Astrophysics 619, A99 (2018)
Bhattacharya, J.; Hanasoge, S. M.; Birch, A.; Gizon, L.: Recovery of subsurface profiles of supergranular flows via iterative inversion of synthetic travel times. Astronomy and Astrophysics 607, A 129 (2017)
Felipe, T.; Braun, D. C.; Birch, A. C.: Helioseismic holography of simulated sunspots: dependence of the travel time on magnetic field strength and Wilson depression. Astronomy and Astrophysics 604, A126 (2017)
Gizon, L.; Barucq, H.; Duruflé, M.; Hanson, C. S.; Leguèbe, M.; Birch, A. C.; Chabassier, J.; Fournier, D.; Hohage, T.; Papini, E.: Computational helioseismology in the frequency domain: acoustic waves in axisymmetric solar models with flows. Astronomy and Astrophysics 600, A35 (2017)
Liang, Z.-C.; Birch, A. C.; Duvall, T.; Gizon, L.; Schou, J.: Comparison of acoustic travel-time measurements of solar meridional circulation from SDO/HMI and SOHO/MDI. Astronomy and Astrophysics 601, A46 (2017)
Löptien, B.; Birch, A. C.; Duvall Jr., T. L.; Gizon, L.; Proxauf, B.; Schou, J.: Measuring solar active region inflows with local correlation tracking of granulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics 606, A28 (2017)
Nagashima, K.; Fournier, D.; Birch, A. C.; Gizon, L.: The amplitude of the cross-covariance function of solar oscillations as a diagnostic tool for wave attenuation and geometrical spreading. Astronomy and Astrophysics 599, A111 (2017)
Böning, V. G. A.; Roth, M.; Zima, W.; Birch, A. C.; Gizon, L.: Sensitivity Kernels for Flows in Time-Distance Helioseismology: Extension to Spherical Geometry. Astrophysical Journal 824, 49 (2016)
Felipe, T.; Braun, D. C.; Crouch, A. D.; Birch, A. C.: Helioseismic Holography of Simulated Sunspots: Magnetic and Thermal Contributions to Travel Times. Astrophysical Journal 829, 67 (2016)
Gizon, L.; Sekii, T.; Takata, M.; Kurtz, D. W.; Shibahashi, H.; Bazot, M.; Benomar, O.; Birch, A. C.; Sreenivasan, K. R.: Shape of a slowly rotating star measured by asteroseismology. Science Advances 2 (11), e1601777 (2016)
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".