Viviani, M.; Käpylä, M. J.: Physically motivated heat conduction treatment in simulations of solar-like stars: effects on dynamo transitions. Astronomy and Astrophysics 645, A141 (2021)
Warnecke, J.; Rheinhardt, M.; Viviani, M.; Gent, F. A.; Tuomisto, S.; Käpylä, M. J.: Investigating Global Convective Dynamos with Mean-field Models: Full Spectrum of Turbulent Effects Required. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 919 (2), L13 (2021)
Käpylä, P. J.; Viviani, M.; Käpylä, M. J.; Brandenburg, A.; Spada, F.: Effects of a subadiabatic layer on convection and dynamos in spherical wedge simulations. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 113 (1-2), pp. 149 - 183 (2019)
Viviani, M.; Käpylä, M. J.; Warnecke, J.; Käpylä, P. J.; Rheinhardt, M.: Stellar Dynamos in the Transition Regime: Multiple Dynamo Modes and Antisolar Differential Rotation. Astrophysical Journal 886 (1), 21 (2019)
Viviani, M.; Warnecke, J.; Käpylä, M. J.; Käpylä, P. J.; Olspert, N.; Cole-Kodikara, E. M.; Lehtinen, J.; Brandenburg, A.: Transition from axi- to nonaxisymmetric dynamo modes in spherical convection models of solar-like stars. Astronomy and Astrophysics 616, A 160 (2018)
Viviani, M.: Cyclic solutions and anti-solar differential rotation: can a Parker Dynamo Wave explain them? MHD Days and GdRI Dynamo Meeting , Dresden, Germany (2019)
Viviani, M.; Käpylä, M. J.; Warnecke, J.; Käpylä, P. J.; Rheinhardt, M.; Brandenburg, A.: Solar-like stars' models at increasing rotation rates: magnetic field, velocity field and helicities. Solar Helicities in Theory and Observations: Implications for Space Weather and Dynamo Theory, Stockholm, Schweden (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".