Ruan, P.; Wiegelmann, T.; Inhester, B.; Neukirch, T.; Solanki, S. K.; Feng, L.: A first step in reconstructing the solar corona self-consistently with a magnetohydrostatic model during solar activity minimum. Astronomy and Astrophysics 481, pp. 827 - 834 (2008)
Wiegelmann, T.; Neukirch, T.; Ruan, P.; Inhester, B.: Optimization approach for the computation of magnetohydrostatic coronal equilibria in spherical geometry. Astronomy and Astrophysics 475, pp. 701 - 706 (2007)
Ruan, P.: Magnetic field extrapolation in the solar corona and observations of a flux rope in the solar wind. Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2009)
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".