Lemaire, P.; Vial, J.-C.; Curdt, W.; Schühle, U.; Woods, T. N.: The solar hydrogen Lyman alpha to Lyman beta line ratio. Astronomy and Astrophysics 542, L25 (2012)
Kamio, S.; Curdt, W.; Teriaca, L.; Innes, D. E.: Evolution of microflares associated with bright points in coronal holes and in quiet regions. Astronomy and Astrophysics 529, A21 (2011)
Tian, H.; Marsch, E.; Tu, C.; Curdt, W.; He, J.: New views on the emission and structure of the solar transition region. New Astron. Rev. 54, pp. 13 - 30 (2010)
Fontenla, J. M.; Curdt, W.; Haberreiter, M.; Harder, J.; Tian, H.: Semiempirical Models of the Solar Atmosphere. III. Set of Non-Lte Models for Far-Ultraviolet/Extreme-Ultraviolet Irradiance Computation. Astrophysical Journal 707 (1), pp. 482 - 502 (2009)
Kamio, S.; Hara, H.; Watanabe, T.; Curdt, W.: Distribution of jets and magnetic fields in a coronal hole. Astronomy and Astrophysics 502, p. 345 (2009)
Landi, E.; Miralles, M. P.; Curdt, W.; Hara, H.: Physical properties of cooling plasma in quiescent active region loops. Astrophysical Journal 695, p. 221 (2009)
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".