Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Sausage mode instability of thin current sheet as a cause of magnetospheric substorms. Annales Geophysicae 17 (5), pp. 604 - 612 (1999)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J. P.: Consequences of strong ion acceleration in current sheets and due to reconnection. Advances in Space Research 21 (4), pp. 567 - 572 (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Numerical simulation of three-dimensional reconnection due to the instability of collisionless current sheets. Advances in Space Research 19, pp. 1817 - 1822 (1997)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Formation of cup-like ion beam distributions in the plasma sheet bounary layer. J. Geomag. Geoelectr. 48, pp. 781 - 797 (1996)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Computer simulation of the three-dimensional decay of thin collisionless current sheets. In: Magnetospheric Research with Advanced Techniques, Proceedings of the 9th COSPAR Colloquium, pp. 179 - 187 (Eds. Xu, R. L.; Lui, A. T. Y.). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.; Nikutowski, B.; Wiechen, H.; Rustenbach, J.; Auster, U.; Fornacon, K. H.; Klimov, S.; Petrukovich, A.; Savin, S.: Three-dimensional reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail: simulations and observations. In: Geospace Mass an Energy Flow: Results from the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program, pp. 313 - 326 (Eds. Horwitz, J. L.; Galagher, D. L.; Peterson, W. K.). American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.; Wilken, B.; Zong, Q.-G.: Heavy Ion Acceleration by Reconnection in the Magnetotail: Theory and Geotail Observations. In: Physics of the Magnetotail, pp. 181 - 192 (Eds. Nishida, A.; Cowley, S. W. H.; Baker, D.). American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. (1998)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: 3D collisionless reconnection through thin current sheets - Theory and self-consistent simulations. In: Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Substorms (ICS-3), Versailles, France 1996, (ESA SP-389). ESA Publ. Div.,, Noordwijk (1996)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: Newly developed 3D PIC code and its application to reconnection. In: Proc. Fifth Int. School/Symp. for Space Simulations (ISSS-5), pp. 186 - 189. Kyoto University, Kyoto (1997)
Büchner, J.; Kuska, J.-P.: New results about the cause of sudden magnetic detachments by three-dimensional spontaneous magnetic reconnection. In: Proc. 31st ESLAB Symp. ``Correlated Phenomena at the Sun, in the Heliosphere and in Geospace'', ESTEC, pp. 131 - 138 (Ed. Wilson, A.). ESA Publ. Div., Noordwijk (1997)
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.