Hilchenbach, M.; Gniewosz, B.; Tarcea, N.: Analysis of an iron meteorite fragment with SIMS and Raman spectrometry in view of ROSETTA's comet encounter. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 47, p. A185 - A185 (2012)
Le Roy, L.; Briani, G.; Briois, C.; Cottin, H.; Fray, N.; Thirkell, L.; Poulet, G.; Hilchenbach, M.: On the prospective detection of polyoxymethylene in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the COSIMA instrument onboard Rosetta. Planetary and Space Science 65, pp. 83 - 92 (2012)
Biele, J.; Ulamec, S.; Hilchenbach, M.; Koemle, N. I.: In situ analysis of Europa ices by short-range melting probes. Advances in Space Research 48 (4), pp. 755 - 763 (2011)
Cottin, H.; Briois, C.; Engrand, C.; Grand, N.; Thirkell, L.; Thissen, R.; Puget, P.; Berthelier, J. J.; Carasco, N.; Szopa, C.et al.; Kallenbach, R.; Kruger, H.; Hilchenbach, M.; Makarov, A.: ILMA Ion Laser Mass Analyser In-Situ Characterization of a Near Earth Object (NEO) for the MARCO POLO mission. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 40 (6), pp. 571 - 572 (2010)
Hsieh, K. C.; Giacalone, J.; Czechowski, A.; Hilchenbach, M.; Grzedzielski, S.; Kota, J.: Thickness of the heliosheath, return of the pick-up ions, and Voyager 1'S crossing the heliopause. Astrophysical Journal 718 (2), pp. L185 - L188 (2010)
Le Roy, L.; Briois, C.; Thirkell, L.; Cottin, H.; Fray, N.; Poulet, G.; Hilchenbach, M.: Organic Compounds Analysis by TOF-SIMS in the Frame of Rosetta/COSIMA Space Mission. Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 40 (6), pp. 565 - 566 (2010)
Kallenbach, R.; Bamert, K.; Hilchenbach, M.: Acceleration of the anomalous component of cosmic rays revisited. Astrophysics and Space Science Transactions 6, pp. 1 - 12 (2009)
Bamert, K.; Kallenbach, R.; le Roux, J.; Hilchenbach, M.; Smith, C.; Wurz, P.: Evidence for Iroshnikov-Kraichnan-Type Turbulence in the Solar Wind Upstream of Interplanetary Traveling Shocks. Astrophysical Journal 675, pp. L45 - L48 (2008)
Czechowski, A.; Hilchenbach, M.; Hsieh, K. C.; Grzedzielski, S.; Kota, J.: Imaging the heliosheath using HSTOF energetic neutral atoms and Voyager 1 ion data. Astronomy and Astrophysics 487, pp. 329 - 335 (2008)
D'Amicis, R.; Orsini, S.; Antonucci, E.; Di Lellisand, A. M.; Hilchenbach, M.; Telloni, D.; Mura, A.; Milillo, A.; Fineschi, S.; Bruno, R.: Numerical simulations of coronal hole-associated neutral solar wind as expected at the Solar Orbiter position. Journal Geophysical Research 112, A06110 (2007)
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".