Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Placek, B.; Angerhausen, D.; Agol, E.: Predictable patterns in planetary transit timing variations and transit duration variations due to exomoons. Astronomy and Astrophysics 591, A67 (2016)
Oshagh, M.; Heller, R.; Dreizler, S.: How eclipse time variations, eclipse duration variations and radial velocities can reveal S-type planets in close eclipsing binaries. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 466, pp. 4683 - 4691 (2016)
Heller, R.: Detecting and Characterizing Exomoons and Exorings. In: Handbook of Exoplanets, pp. 835 - 851 (Eds. Deeg, H. J.; Belmonte, J. A.). Springer, Cham (2018)
Heller, R.: New Predictions of PLATO's Yield of Earth-sized Transiting Planets in the Habitable Zone of Sun-like Stars. SPP1992 all-hands-on-deck meeting, Online (2021)
Heller, R.: Analytic Solutions to Exoplanet Transit Depth for Ad Hoc Limb Darkening Laws. Getting Ultra-Precise Planetary Radii with PLATO: The Impact of Limb Darkening and Stellar Activity on Transit Light Curves, Online (2021)
Heller, R.: Habitability of early Earth:Liquid water under a faint young Sunand tidal heating due to a closer Moon. GeoKarlsruhe 2021: Sustainable Earth - from processes to resources, Online (2021)
Heller, R.: Earth-sized Transiting Planets in the Stellar Habitable ZonesFrom Kepler to PLATO. Virtual Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Online (2021)
Heller, R.: Habitability of early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun and tidal heating due to a closer Moon. General Meeting of the SPP 1833 "Building a Habitable Earth", online (2021)
Heller, R.: Challenges of Validating Earth-like Transiting Planets Around Sun-like Stars. Splinter session "Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets”, Virtual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society (2020)
The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP).
Application deadline 1 October 2024. PhD projects in planetary science, solar and stellar physics, solar magnetism, heliophysics, helioseismology, asteroseismology, ...
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In analyzing solar observations from the 19th century, scientists are turning to amateur researchers for help. The project will allow to better understand the history of our star.
Astronomical teamwork: By combining data from Solar Orbiter and SDO, a group of researchers has unambiguously determined the magnetic field at the solar surface.