Muñoz, P. A.; Told, D.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.; Jenko, F.: Gyrokinetic and kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field reconnection. I. Macroscopic effects of the electron flows. Physics of Plasmas 22 (8), 082110 (2015)
Ganse, U.; Kilian, P.; Spanier, F.; Vainio, R.: Fundamental and harmonic plasma emission in different plasma environments (Research Note). Astronomy and Astrophysics 564, A15 (2014)
Muñoz, P. A.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: Instabilities of collisionless current sheets revisited: The role of anisotropic heating. Physics of Plasmas 21 (11), 112106 (2014)
Büchner, J.; Kilian, P.; Muñoz Sepúlveda, P. A.; Spanier, F.; Widmer, F.; Zhou, X.; Jain, N.: Kinetic Simulations of Electron Acceleration at Mercury. In: Magnetic Fields in the Solar System: Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions, pp. 201 - 240 (Eds. Lühr, H.; Wicht, J.; Gilder, S. A.; Holschneider, M.). Springer, Cham (2018)
Muñoz, P. A.; Kilian, P.; Büchner, J.: PIC-code simulation of spontaneous instabilities of current sheets: anisotropic heating and guide field influence on magnetic reconnection. 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Moscow, Russia (2014)
Analyzing the high spatial resolution solar Ca II H and K emission data obtained by the SUNRISE mission and building a model of other stars more active than the Sun
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).
First Light for Sunrise III: the first tests with real sunlight were successful. The balloon-borne solar observatory should be ready for launch at the end of May.