Zollinger, R. R.; Armstrong, J. C.; Heller, R.: Exomoon Habitability and Tidal Evolution in Low-Mass Star Systems. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 472, pp. 8 - 25 (2017)
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)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to build the flight models of the spacecraft and science payload for the PLATO mission to search for extrasolar planets.
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.
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.
The longest-serving solar observatory in space has turned 25 and is still making significant contributions to solar research. Its old age has become an important merit.