Hoyng, P.; Ossendrijver, M. A. J. H.; Schmitt, D.: The geodynamo as a bistable oscillator. Geophysical Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 94, pp. 263 - 314 (2001)
Schmitt, D.; Ossendrijver, M. A. J. H.; Hoyng, P.: Magnetic field reversals and secular variation in a bistable geodynamo model. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 125, pp. 119 - 124 (2001)
Vögler, A.; Schmitt, D.: Generation of bisymmetric magnetic fields in galaxies with tidal interaction. Astronomy and Astrophysics 374, pp. 36 - 41 (2001)
Schüssler, M.; Schmitt, D.: Theoretical models of solar magnetic variability. In: Solar Variability and its Effect on Climate, p. 33 (Ed. Pap, J.). American Geophysical Union (2004)
Schmitt, D.: Dynamo action of magnetostrophic waves. In: Advances in Nonlinear Dynamos, pp. 83 - 122 (Eds. Ferriz-Mas, A.; Nunez, M.). Taylor and Francis, London (2003)
Schrinner, M.; Rädler, K.-H.; Schmitt, D.; Rheinhardt, M.; Christensen, U.: Mean-field view on magnetoconvection and dynamo models. In: Proceedings of the Joint 15th Riga and 6th pamir International Conference, pp. 85 - 88. (2005)
Schmitt, D.; Ferriz-Mas, A.: Variable solar and stellar activity by a flux tube dynamo. In: Tubulence, Waves, and Instabilities in the Solar Plasma (Eds. Forgacs-Dajka, E.; Petrovay, K.; Erdely, R.). Astr. Dept. Eötvös Univ., Budapest (2003)
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".