Benáček, J.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Jessner, A.: Streaming instability in neutron star magnetospheres: No indication of soliton-like waves. Astronomy and Astrophysics 683, p. A69 (2024)
Benáček, J.; Timokhin, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Jessner, A.; Rievajová, T.; Pohl, M.; Büchner, J.: Poynting flux transport channels formed in polar cap regions of neutron star magnetospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics 691, p. A137 (2024)
Benáček, J.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Jessner, A.: Linear acceleration emission of pulsar relativistic streaming instability and interacting plasma bunches. Astronomy and Astrophysics 675, p. A42 (2023)
Muñoz, P. A.; Jain, N.; Farzalipour Tabriz, M.; Rampp, M.; Büchner, J.: Electron inertia effects in 3D hybrid-kinetic collisionless plasma turbulence. Physics of Plasmas 30, p. 092302 (2023)
Jain, N.; Muñoz, P. A.; Farzalipour Tabriz, M.; Ramp, M.; Büchner, J.: Importance of accurate consideration of the electron inertia in hybrid-kinetic simulations of collisionless plasma turbulence: The 2D limit. Physics of Plasmas 29, p. 053902 (2022)
Shi, Z.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Liu, S.: Proton and Helium Heating by Cascading Turbulence in a Low-beta Plasma. The Astrophysical Journal 941, p. 39 (2022)
Yao, X.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Non-thermal electron velocity distribution functions due to 3D kinetic magnetic reconnection for solar coronal plasma conditions. Physics of Plasmas 29, p. 022104 (2022)
Yao, X.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Benáček, J.; Liu, S.; Zhou, X.: Wave Emission of Nonthermal Electron Beams Generated by Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 933, p. 219 (2022)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Two-stage Electron Acceleration by 3D Collisionless Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 864 (1), 92 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Kinetic turbulence in fast three-dimensional collisionless guide-field magnetic reconnection. Physical Review E 98 (4), 043205 (2018)
Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Jain, N.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: A new hybrid code (CHIEF) implementing the inertial electron fluid equation without approximation. Computer Physics Communications 224, pp. 245 - 264 (2018)
Jain, N.; Büchner, J.; Muñoz, P. A.: Nonlinear evolution of electron shear flow instabilities in the presence of an external guide magnetic field. Physics of Plasmas 24 (3), 032303 (2017)
Jain, N.; von Stechow, A.; Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.; Grulke, O.; Klinger, T.: Electron-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of electron scale current sheet dynamics in the VINETA. II guide field reconnection experiment. Physics of Plasmas 24 (9), 092312 (2017)
Muñoz, P. A.; Büchner, J.: Non-Maxwellian electron distribution functions due to self-generated turbulence in collisionless guide-field reconnection. Physics of Plasmas 23 (10), 102103 (2016)
Muñoz, P. A.; Told, D.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.; Jenko, F.: Gyrokinetic and kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field reconnection. I. Macroscopic effects of the electron flows. Physics of Plasmas 22 (8), 082110 (2015)
Muñoz, P. A.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: Instabilities of collisionless current sheets revisited: The role of anisotropic heating. Physics of Plasmas 21 (11), 112106 (2014)
Büchner, J.; Kilian, P.; Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Spanier, F.; Widmer, F.; Zhou, X.; Jain, N.: Kinetic Simulations of Electron Acceleration at Mercury. In: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System: Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions, pp. 201 - 240 (Eds. Lühr, H.; Wicht, J.; Gilder, S. A.; Holschneider, M.). Springer, Cham (2018)
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.