Aschwanden, M. J.; Peter, H.: The Width Distribution of Loops and Strands in the Solar Corona - Are We Hitting Rock Bottom? Astrophysical Journal 840 (24), 4 (2017)
Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Young, P. R.; Huang, Y.-M.: Compact solar UV burst triggered in a magnetic field with a fan-spine topology. Astronomy and Astrophysics 605, A49 (2017)
Bourdin, P. A.; Bingert, S.; Peter, H.: Scaling laws of coronal loops compared to a 3D MHD model of an active region. Astronomy and Astrophysics 589, A86 (2016)
Bourdin, P. A.; Bingert, S.; Peter, H.: Coronal energy input and dissipation in a solar active region 3D MHD model. Astronomy and Astrophysics 580, A72 (2015)
Chen, F.; Peter, H.: Using coronal seismology to estimate the magnetic field strength in a realistic coronal model. Astronomy and Astrophysics 581, A137 (2015)
Cheung, M. C. M.; Boerner, P.; Schrijver, C. J.; Testa, P.; Chen, F.; Peter, H.; Malanushenko, A.: Thermal Diagnostics with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory: A Validated Method for Differential Emission Measure Inversions. Astrophysical Journal 807, 143 (2015)
De Pontieu, B.; McIntosh, S.; Martinez-Sykora, J.; Peter, H.; Pereira, T. M. D.: Why is Non-Thermal Line Broadening of Spectral Lines in the Lower Transition Region of the Sun Independent of Spatial Resolution? Astrophysical Journal 799 (1), L12 (2015)
Peter, H.: What can large-scale magnetohydrodynamic numerical experiments tell us about coronal heating? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 373 (2042), 20150055 (2015)
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".