Rinnert, K.; Lanzerotti, L. J.; Krider, E. P.; Uman, M. A.; Dehmel, G.; Gliem, F. O.; Axford, W. I.: Electromagnetic noise and radio wave propagation below 100 kHz in the Jovian magnetosphere, 1. The equatorial region. Journal Geophysical Research 84, pp. 5181 - 5188 (1979)
Ip, W.-H.; Fillius, W.; Mogro-Campero, A.; Gleeson, L. J.; Axford, W. I.: Quiet-time interplanetary cosmic ray anisotropies observed from Pioneer 10 and 11. Journal Geophysical Research 83, pp. 1633 - 1640 (1978)
Krimigis, S. M.; Armstrong, T. P.; Axford, W. I.; Bostrom, C. O.; Fan, C. Y.; Gloeckler, G.; Lanzerotti, L. J.: The low energy charged particle (LECP) experiment on the Voyager spacecraft. Space Science Reviews 21, pp. 329 - 354 (1977)
Lee, H.-J.; McKenzie, J. F.; Axford, W. I.: Discontinuous transitions in a current-carrying plasma. Astrophysics and Space Science 51, pp. 3 - 32 (1977)
Messinger, H. F.; Greenstadt, E. W.; Axford, W. I.; Wetherill, G. W.: Comet exploration: Scientific objectives and mission strategy for a rendezvous with Encke. Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics 50, pp. 209 - 236 (1977)
Axford, W. I.; Fillius, W.; Gleeson, L. J.; Ip, W.-H.: Cosmic-ray gradients from Pioneer-10 and Pioneer-11. Astrophysical Journal 210, pp. 603 - 613 (1976)
Gleeson, L. J.; Axford, W. I.: An analytic model illustrating the effects of rotation on a magnetosphere containing low-energy plasma. Journal Geophysical Research 81, pp. 3403 - 3406 (1976)
Marsch, E.; Axford, W. I.; McKenzie, J. F.: Solar Wind. In: The Dynamic Sun, pp. 374 - 402 (Ed. Dwivedi, B.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2003)
Axford, W. I.: COSPAR during the period 1986-1994. In: 40 Years of COSPAR, pp. 131 - 137 (Eds. Haerendel, G.; Grzedzielski, S.; Cavallo, G.; Battrick, B.). ESA Publ. Div., Noordwijk (1998)
Axford, W. I.; Suess, S. T.: The outer heliosphere. In: From the Sun: Auroras, Magnetic Storms, Solar Flares, Cosmic Rays, pp. 143 - 152 (Eds. Suess, S. T.; Tsurutani, B. T.). American Geophysical Union, Washington D. C. (1998)
Axford, W. I.; McKenzie, J. F.: Acceleration of the high speed solar wind. In: Magnetodynamic Phenomena in the Solar Atmosphere-Prototypes of Stellar Magnetic Activity, pp. 115 - 122 (Eds. Uchida, Y.; Kosugi, T.; Hudson, H. S.). Kluwer, Dordrecht (1996)
Axford, W. I.: Magnetospheres of the earth and planets. In: Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, pp. 187 - 205 (Ed. Trigg, G. L.). VCH Publ. Inc., New York (1994)
Axford, W. I.; Breus, T. K.: Scenario of solar wind interaction with Venus and Mars. In: Plasma Environments of Non-Magnetic Planets (Proc. 4th COSPAR Colloquium, Ann Arbor, U. S. A., 1992), pp. 207 - 216 (Ed. Gombosi, T. I.). Pergamon Press, Oxford (1993)
The Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism (SLAM) group covers many exciting subjects in solar physics, focussing on the development and testing of highly novel solar instrumentation, reduction and analysis of highest quality solar observations, or improving and developing advanced techniques for the analysis of solar observations.
Inversion codes are used to aid the detailed interpretation of solar spectro-polarimetric data. This computer code attempts to find the atmospheric structure that produced an observed spectrum by minimizing the difference between the observed spectrum and a Stokes spectrum.
The MPS is one of the leading institutes worldwide in building instruments for solar research, both for ground based observatories as well as for balloon and space-borne missions. Scientists and engineers of MPS conceive new observing methods and develop novel instruments of highest technological complexity. These instruments are built in house, tested, calibrated, and used at the best solar observatories in the world, or delivered to NASA and ESA to be launched to space.
In the "Solar and Stellar Interiors" department, Laurent Gizon, Jesper Schou, Aaron Birch, Robert Cameron and others offer PhD projects in solar physics and astrophysics. Helioseismology and asteroseismology are used as important tools to study the oscillating Sun and stars.
Recently new, very sensitive observations of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and its instruments NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery) an ACS (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite) became available and initiated a number of interesting scientific questions. Some of them are open PhD projects using the MPS General Circulation Model (MPS-GCM).