Lee, K. W.; Büchner, J.: Turbulent anomalous transport and anisotropic electron heating in a return current system. Physics of Plasmas 18, 022308 (2011)
Lee, K. W.; Büchner, J.: Anomalous momentum transport and plasma heating in a collisionless return-current beam plasma system: Multifluid and kinetic approaches. Physics of Plasmas 17, 042308 (2010)
Lee, K. W.; Büchner, J.; Elkina, N.: Collisionless transport of energetic electrons in the solar corona at current-free double layers. Astronomy and Astrophysics 478, pp. 889 - 895 (2008)
Lee, K. W.; Büchner, J.; Elkina, N.: Current driven low-frequency electrostatic waves in the solar corona: Linear theory and nonlinear saturation. Physics of Plasmas 14, 112903 (2007)
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.
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.