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)
Gottschling, N.; Schunker, H.; Birch, A. C.; Cameron, R.; Gizon, L.: Testing solar surface flux transport models in the first days after active region emergence. Astronomy and Astrophysics 660, p. A6 (2022)
Dhuri, D.B.; Hanasoge, S.M.; Birch, A.; Schunker, H.: Application and interpretation of deep learning for identifying pre-emergence magnetic field patterns. The Astrophysical Journal 903 (1), 27 (2020)
Metcalfe, T. S.; van Saders, J. L.; Basu, S.; Buzasi, D.; Chaplin, W. J.; Egeland, R.; Garcia, R. A.; Gaulme, P.; Huber, D.; Reinhold, T.et al.; Schunker, H.; Stassun, K. G.; Appourchaux, T.; Ball, W. H.; Bedding, T. R.; Deheuvels, S.; González-Cuesta, L.; Handberg, R.; Jiménez, A.; Kjeldsen, H.; Li, T.; Lund, M. N.; Mathur, S.; Mosser, B.; Nielsen, M. B.; Noll, A.; Orhan, Z. Ç.; Örtel, S.; Santos, Â. R. G.; Yildiz, M.; Baliunas, S.; Soon, W.: The Evolution of Rotation and Magnetic Activity in 94 Aqr Aa from Asteroseismology with TESS. The Astrophysical Journal 900, 154 (2020)
Birch, A.; Schunker, H.; Braun, D. C.; Gizon, L.: Average surface flows before the formation of solar active regions and their relationship to the supergranulation pattern. Astronomy and Astrophysics 628, A37 (2019)
Nielsen, M. B.; Schunker, H.; Gizon, L.; Schou, J.; Ball, W.: Limits on radial differential rotation in Sun-like stars from parametric fits to oscillation power spectra. Astronomy and Astrophysics 603, A6, pp. 1 - 8 (2017)
Nielsen, M. B.; Schunker, H.; Gizon, L.; Ball, W. H.: Constraining differential rotation of Sun-like stars from asteroseismic and starspot rotation periods. Astronomy and Astrophysics 582, A10 (2015)
Liang, Z.-C.; Gizon, L.; Schunker, H.; Philippe, T.: Helioseismology of sunspots: defocusing, folding, and healing of wavefronts. Astronomy and Astrophysics 558, A129 (2013)
Nielsen, M. B.; Gizon, L.; Schunker, H.; Karoff, C.: Rotation periods of 12 000 main-sequence Kepler stars: Dependence on stellar spectral type and comparison with v sin i observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 557, L10 (2013)
Rajaguru, S. P.; Couvidat, S.; Sun, X.; Hayashi, K.; Schunker, H.: Properties of high-frequency wave power halos around active regions: An analysis of multi-height data from HMI and AIA onboard SDO. Solar Physics 287 (1-2), pp. 107 - 127 (2013)
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".