Bahar, E.; Şenavcı, H. V.; Isik, E.; Hussain, G. A. J.; Kochukhov, O.; Montes, D.; Xiang, Y.: First Chromospheric Activity and Doppler Imaging Study of PW And Using a New Doppler Imaging Code: SpotDIPy. The Astrophysical Journal 960, p. 60 (2024)
Weber, M. A.; Schunker, H.; Jouve, L.; Isik, E.: Understanding Active Region Origins and Emergence on the Sun and Other Cool Stars. Space Science Reviews 219 (8) (2023)
Şenavcı, H. V.; Kılıçoğlu, T.; Isik, E.; Hussain, G. A. J.; Montes, D.; Bahar, E.; Solanki, S. K.: Observing and modelling the young solar analogue EK Draconis: starspot distribution, elemental abundances, and evolutionary status. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 502 (3), pp. 3343 - 3356 (2021)
Isik, E.; Shapiro, A.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N. A.: Amplification of Brightness Variability by Active-region Nesting in Solar-like Stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 901, L12 (2020)
Nèmec, N.-E.; Isik, E.; Shapiro, A.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N. A.; Unruh, Y.: Connecting measurements of solar and stellar brightness variations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 638, A56 (2020)
Isik, E.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N. A.; Shapiro, A.: Forward modelling of brightness variations in Sun-like stars: I. Emergence and surface transport of magnetic flux. Astronomy and Astrophysics 620, A177 (2018)
Özavcı, İ.; Şenavcı, H. V.; Isik, E.; Hussain, G. A. J.; O'Neal, D.; Yılmaz, M.; Selam, S. O.: Recurrent star-spot activity and differential rotation in KIC 11560447. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 474 (4), pp. 5534 - 5548 (2018)
Şenavcı, H. V.; Bahar, E.; Montes, D.; Zola, S.; Hussain, G. A. J.; Frasca, A.; Isik, E.; Yörükoğlu, O.: Star-spot distributions and chromospheric activity on the RS CVn type eclipsing binary SV Cam. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 479 (1), pp. 875 - 889 (2018)
Işık, E.; Holzwarth, V.: Flow instabilities of magnetic flux tubes IV. Flux storage in the solar overshoot region. Astronomy and Astrophysics 508 (2), pp. 979 - U479 (2009)
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.