Zhou, X.; Buechner, J.; Barta, M.; Gan, W.; Liu, S.: Electron Acceleration by Cascading Reconnection in the Solar Corona. II. Resistive Electric Field Effects. Astrophysical Journal 827 (2), 94 (2016)
Zhou, X.; Büchner, J.; Bárta, M.; Gan, W.; Liu, S.: Electron Acceleration by Cascading Reconnection in the Solar Corona. I. Magnetic Gradient and Curvature Drift Effects. Astrophysical Journal 815 (1), 6 (2015)
Nickeler, D. H.; Karlicky, M.; Barta, M.: Topological skeleton of the 2-D slightly non-ideal MHD system close to X-type magnetic null points - an analysis of the general solution for the generic case. Annales Geophysicae 30 (6), pp. 1015 - 1023 (2012)
Bartá, M.; Büchner, J.; Karlický, M.; Skála, J.: Spontaneous current-layer fragmentation and cascading reconnection in solar flares: I. Model and analysis. Astrophysical Journal 737, 24 (2011)
Karlicky, M.; Barta, M.: Successive Merging of Plasmoids and Fragmentation in a Flare Current Sheet and Their X-Ray and Radio Signatures. Astrophysical Journal 733 (2), 107 (2011)
Bárta, M.; Büchner, J.; Karlicky, M.: Multi-scale MHD approach to the current sheet filamentation in solar coronal reconnection. Advances in Space Research 45, pp. 10 - 17 (2010)
Karlicky, M.; Barta, M.; Rybak, J.: Radio spectra generated during coalescence processes of plasmoids in a flare current sheet. Astronomy and Astrophysics 514, A28 (2010)
Miklenic, C. H.; Veronig, A. M.; Vršnak, B.; Bárta, M.: Observations of Chromospheric Flare Re-brightenings. Astrophysical Journal 719, pp. 1750 - 1758 (2010)
Barta, M.; Büchner, J.; Karlicky, M.; Skala, J.: Role of plasmoids in energy cascade in magnetic reconnection in solar corona. 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Moscow, Russia (2014)
Zhou, X.; Büchner, J.; Barta, M.; Gan, W.; Liu, S.: Particle acceleration by cascading reconnection in the solar corona. 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Moscow, Russia (2014)
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".