Balmaceda, L. A.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N. A.; Foster, S.: A homogeneous database of sunspot areas covering more than 130 years. Journal Geophysical Research 114, A07104 (2009)
Balmaceda, L.; Krivova, N. A.; Solanki, S. K.: Reconstruction of solar irradiance using the Group sunspot number. Advances in Space Research 40, pp. 986 - 989 (2007)
Krivova, N. A.; Balmaceda, L.; Solanki, S. K.: Reconstruction of solar total irradiance since 1700 from the surface magnetic flux. Astronomy and Astrophysics 467, pp. 335 - 346 (2007)
Balmaceda, L.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N.: A cross-calibrated sunspot areas time series since 1874. Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana 76, pp. 929 - 932 (2005)
Balmaceda, L. A.; Gonzalez, W. D.; Echer, E.; Santos, J. C.; Vieira, L. E. A.; Lago, A. D.; Guarnieri, F. L.; Gonzalez, A. L. C.: The solar origins of the sun-earth connection events on April 1999 and February 2000. Braz. J. Phys. 34 (4B), pp. 1745 - 1747 (2004)
Balmaceda, L. A.: Solar variability and solar irradiance reconstructions on time scales of decades to centuries. Dissertation, Technische Universität Braunschweig (2007)
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".
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.