Johnson, L. J.; Norris, C. M.; Unruh, Y. C.; Solanki, S. K.; Krivova, N.; Witzke, V.; Shapiro, A.: Forward modelling of Kepler-band variability due to faculae and spots. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504 (4), pp. 4751 - 4767 (2021)
Reinhold, T.; Shapiro, A.; Witzke, V.; Nèmec, N.-E.; Işık, E.; Solanki, S. K.: Where Have All the Solar-like Stars Gone? Rotation Period Detectability at Various Inclinations and Metallicities. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 908 (2), L21 (2021)
Sowmya, K.; Nèmec, N.-E.; Shapiro, A.; Isik, E.; Witzke, V.; Mints, A.; Krivova, N. A.; Solanki, S. K.: Predictions of Astrometric Jitter for Sun-like Stars. II. Dependence on Inclination, Metallicity, and Active-region Nesting. The Astrophysical Journal 919 (2), 94 (2021)
Witzke, V.; Silvers, L. J.; Favier, B.: Evolution and characteristics of forced shear flows in polytropic atmospheres: large and small Péclet number regimes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482 (1), pp. 1338 - 1351 (2019)
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".