Chen, Y.; Mandal, S.; Peter, H.; Chitta, L. P.: Bidirectional propagating brightenings in arch filament systems observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI. Astronomy and Astrophysics 692, p. A119 (2024)
Chitta, L. P.; Hannah, I.G.; Fletcher, L.; Hudson, H.S.; Young, P.R.; Krucker, S.; Peter, H.: Hard X-rays from the deep solar atmosphere: An unusual UV burst with flare properties. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS (2024)
Chitta, L. P.; van Noort, M.; Smitha, H. N.; Priest, E.R.; van der Voort, L.H.M.R.: Photospheric Hot Spots at Solar Coronal Loop Footpoints Revealed by Hyperspectral Imaging Observations. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (1) (2024)
Pontin, D. I.; Priest, E. R.; Chitta, L. P.; Titov, V. S.: Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Generation by Flux Cancellation Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal 960, p. 51 (2024)
Chitta, L. P.; Zhukov, A. N.; Berghmans, D.; Peter, H.; Parenti, S.; Mandal, S.; Aznar Cuadrado, R.; Schühle, U.; Teriaca, L.; Auchère, F.et al.; Barczynski, K.; Buchlin, É.; Harra, L.; Kraaikamp, E.; Long, D. M.; Rodriguez, L.; Schwanitz, C.; Smith, P. J.; Verbeeck, C.; Seaton, D. B.: Picoflare jets power the solar wind emerging from a coronal hole on the Sun. Science 38, pp. 867 - 872 (2023)
Li, Z.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M. D.; Chitta, L. P.; Peter, H.; Berghmans, D.; Smith, P. J.; Auchère, F.; Parenti, S.; Barczynski, K.et al.; Harra, L.; Schühle, U.; Buchlin, É.; Verbeeck, C.; Aznar Cuadrado, R.; Zhukov, A. N.; Long, D. M.; Teriaca, L.; Rodriguez, L.: Evidence of external reconnection between an erupting mini-filament and ambient loops observed by Solar Orbiter/EUI. Astronomy and Astrophysics 673, p. A83 (2023)
Chitta, L. P.; Seaton, D. B.; Downs, C.; DeForest, C. E.; Higginson, A. K.: Direct observations of a complex coronal web driving highly structured slow solar wind. Nature Astronomy (2022)
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".