Brooks, D. H.; Winebarger, A. R.; Savage, S.; Warren, H. P.; Pontieu, B. D.; Peter, H.; Cirtain, J. W.; Golub, L.; Kobayashi, K.; McIntosh, S. W.et al.; McKenzie, D.; Morton, R.; Rachmeler, L.; Testa, P.; Tiwari, S.; Walsh, R.: The Drivers of Active Region Outflows into the Slow Solar Wind. The Astrophysical Journal 894 (2), 144 (2020)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Priest, E. R.; Solanki, S. K.: Impulsive coronal heating during the interaction of surface magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics 644, A130 (2020)
Guo, L.-J.; de Pontieu, B.; Huang, Y.-M.; Peter, H.; Bhattacharjee, A.: Observations and modeling of the onset of fast reconnection in the solar transition region. The Astrophysical Journal 901 (2), 148 (2020)
Li, L.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.; Song, H.: Relation of Coronal Rain Originating from Coronal Condensations to Interchange Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 905 (1), 26 (2020)
Pontin, D. I.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.: Non-thermal line broadening due to braiding-induced turbulence in solar coronal loops. Astronomy and Astrophysics 639, A21 (2020)
Warren, H. P.; Reep, J. W.; Crump, N. A.; Ugarte-Urra, I.; Brooks, D. H.; Winebarger, A. R.; Savage, S.; Pontieu, B. D.; Peter, H.; Cirtain, J. W.et al.; Golub, L.; Kobayashi, K.; McKenzie, D.; Morton, R.; Rachmeler, L.; Testa, P.; Tiwari, S.; Walsh, R.: Observation and Modeling of High-temperature Solar Active Region Emission during the High-resolution Coronal Imager Flight of 2018 May 29. The Astrophysical Journal 896 (1), 51 (2020)
Williams, T.; Walsh, R.W.; Peter, H.; Winebarger, A.R.: Evidence for and Analysis of Multiple Hidden Coronal Strands in Cross-sectional Emission Profiles: Further Results from NASA's High-resolution Solar Coronal Imager. The Astrophysical Journal 902 (2), 90 (2020)
Williams, T.; Walsh, R. W.; Winebarger, A. R.; Brooks, D. H.; Cirtain, J. W.; Pontieu, B. D.; Golub, L.; Kobayashi, K.; McKenzie, D. E.; Morton, R. J.et al.; Peter, H.; Rachmeler, L. A.; Savage, S. L.; Testa, P.; Tiwari, S. K.; Warren, H. P.; Watkinson, B. J.: Is the High-Resolution Coronal Imager Resolving Coronal Strands? Results from AR 12712. The Astrophysical Journal 892 (2), 134 (2020)
Chen, Y.; Tian, H.; Huang, Z.; Peter, H.; Samanta, T.: Investigating the Transition Region Explosive Events and Their Relationship to Network Jets. Astrophysical Journal 873 (1), 79 (2019)
Chitta, L. P.; Sukarmadji, A. R. C.; van der Voort, L. R.; Peter, H.: Energetics of magnetic transients in a solar active region plage. Astronomy and Astrophysics 623, A176 (2019)
Hu, H.; Liu, Y. D.; Zhu, B.; Peter, H.; He, W.; Wang, R.; Yang, Z.: Effects of Coronal Density and Magnetic Field Distributions on a Global Solar EUV Wave. The Astrophysical Journal 878 (2), 106 (2019)
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".