Heller, R.: Habitability of early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun and tidal heating due to a closer Moon. General Meeting of the SPP 1833 "Building a Habitable Earth", online (2021)
Heller, R.: Challenges of Validating Earth-like Transiting Planets Around Sun-like Stars. Splinter session "Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets”, Virtual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society (2020)
Heller, R.: Detecting shallow transits with smart force: the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. PLATO Extrasolar Planets 2019: Single, Shallow & Strange Transits, Warwick , UK (2019)
Heller, R.: Extrasolare Planeten. Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Schülerbesuch der 11. Klasse des Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: In situ-Erkundung extrasolarer Planeten Science Fiction oder Science Fact? Vortragsreihe "Extrasolare Planeten, Astrobiologie und die Frage nach Leben im Universum" der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: How to park a hot Jupiter at 0.05 AU around a sun-like star for billions of years. Planet Formation and Evolution 2019, Rostock, Germany (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".