Limbach, M. A.; Soares-Furtado, M.; Vanderburg, A.; Best, W. M. J.; Cody, A. M.; D'Onghia, E.; Heller, R.; Hensley, B. S.; Kounkel, M.; Kraus, A.et al.; Mann, A. W.; Robberto, M.; Rosen, A. L.; Townsend, R.; Vos, J. M.: The TEMPO Survey. I. Predicting Yields of Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30 days Survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 135, p. 014401 (2023)
Vilović, I.; Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.: Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth's biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon. Scientific Reports 13, p. 12663 (2023)
Heller, R.; Harre, J.-V.; Samadi, R.: Transit least-squares survey. IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission. Astronomy and Astrophysics 665, p. A11 (2022)
Heller, R.; Duda, J.-P.; Winkler, M.; Reitner, J.; Gizon, L.: Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer Moon. Paläontologische Zeitschrift (2021)
Limbach, M. A.; Vos, J. M.; Winn, J. N.; Heller, R.; Mason, J. C.; Schneider, A. C.; Dai, F.: On the Detection of Exomoons Transiting Isolated Planetary-mass Objects. The Astrophysical Journal Letters 918, L25 (2021)
Heller, R.; Hippke, M.; Freudenthal, J.; Rodenbeck, K.; Batalha, N. M.; Bryson, S.: Transit least-squares survey: III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations. Astronomy and Astrophysics 638, A10 (2020)
Jones, M. H.; Haswell, C. A.; Barnes, J. R.; Staab, D.; Heller, R.: A Possible Transit of a Disintegrating Exoplanet in the Nearby Multiplanet System DMPP-1. Astrophysical Journal, Letters 895 (1), L17 (2020)
Schulze-Makuch, D.; Heller, R.; Guinan, E.: In Search for a Planet Better than Earth: Top Contenders for a Superhabitable World. Astrobiology 20 (12) (2020)
Heller, R.: Analytic solutions to the maximum and average exoplanet transit depth for common stellar limb darkening laws. Astronomy and Astrophysics 623, A137 (2019)
Heller, R.: Decryption of messages from extraterrestrial intelligence using the power of social media– the SETI Decrypt Challenge. International Journal of Astrobiology 18 (4), pp. 296 - 303 (2019)
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).
Two scientific associations have awarded Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine the title "Geochemistry Fellow" for his contributions to the understanding of how the Solar System was formed.
Application deadline 1 October 2023. PhD projects in planetary science, solar and stellar physics, solar magnetism, heliophysics, helioseismology, asteroseismology, ...
Call for applications: PhD positions in planetary science, solar physics, stellar physics, with a starting date in September 2024, at the IMPRS in Göttingen.
The MPS instruments on board ESA’s JUICE spacecraft have successfully completed their commissioning in space - and delivered their first observational data.