Cheng, X.; Xing, C.; Aulanier, G.; Solanki, S. K.; Peter, H.; Ding, M. D.: Deciphering the Slow-rise Precursor of a Major Coronal Mass Ejection. The Astrophysical Journal 954, p. L47 (2023)
Zhang, J.; Tian, H.; Zarka, P.; Louis, C. K.; Lu, H.; Gao, D.; Sun, X.; Yu, S.; Chen, B.; Cheng, X.et al.; Wang, K.: Fine Structures of Radio Bursts from Flare Star AD Leo with FAST Observations. The Astrophysical Journal 953, p. 65 (2023)
Wang, W.Y.; Cheng, X.; Ren, Z.N.; Ding, M.D.: Current-sheet Oscillations Caused by the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Loop Top of Solar Flares. Astrophysical Journal Letters 931 (2) (2022)
Li, Z. F.; Cheng, X.; Chen, F.; Chen, J.; Ding, M. D.: Three-dimensional Magnetic and Thermodynamic Structures of Solar Microflares. The Astrophysical Journal 930, p. L7 (2022)
Chitta, L. P.; Priest, E. R.; Cheng, X.: From Formation to Disruption: Observing the Multiphase Evolution of a Solar Flare Current Sheet. The Astrophysical Journal 911 (2), 133 (2021)
Li, Z. F.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M. D.; Reeves, K. K.; Kittrell, D.; Weber, M.; McKenzie, D. E.: Thermodynamic Evolution of Solar Flare Supra-arcade Downflows. The Astrophysical Journal 915 (2), 124 (2021)
Huang, Z.W.; Cheng, X.; Ding, M.D.: The kinematic evolution of erupting structures in confined solar flares. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 904 (1), L2 (2020)
Kou, Y. K.; Jing, Z. C.; Cheng, X.; Pan, W. Q.; Liu, Y.; Li, C.; Ding, M. D.: What Determines Solar Flares Producing Interplanetary Type III Radio Bursts? The Astrophysical Journal Letters 898 (1), L24 (2020)
Nindos, A.; Patsourakos, S.; Vourlidas, A.; Cheng, X.; Zhang, J.: When do solar erupting hot magnetic flux ropes form? Astronomy and Astrophysics 642, A109 (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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