Solanki, S. K.; Curdt, W.; Gandorfer, A.; Schüssler, M.; Lites, B. W.; Martinez Pillet, V.; Schmidt, W.; Title, A. M.; the Sunrise Team: SUNRISE: Balloon-borne high-resolution observation of the Sun. Astron. Nachrichten 324, p. 113 (2003)
Solanki, S. K.; Lagg, A.; Woch, J.; Krupp, N.; Collados, M.: Three-dimensional magnetic field topology in a region of solar coronal heating. Nature 425, pp. 692 - 695 (2003)
Usoskin, I.; Solanki, S. K.; Schüssler, M.; Mursula, K.; Alanko, K.: Millenium-scale sunspot number reconstruction: Evidence for an unusually active Sun since the 1940s. Physical Review Letters 91, 211101 (2003)
Zhang, J.; Solanki, S. K.; Wang, J.: On the nature of moving magnetic feature pairs around sunspots. Astronomy and Astrophysics 399, pp. 755 - 761 (2003)
Zhang, J.; Woch, J.; Solanki, S. K.; von Steiger, R.; Forsyth, R.: Interplanetary and solar surface properties of coronal holes obseved during solar maximum. Journal Geophysical Research 108 (A4), 1144 (2003)
Berdyugina, S. V.; Solanki, S. K.: The molecular Zeeman effect and diagnostics of solar and stellar magnetic fields. I. Theoretical spectral patterns in the Zeeman regime. Astronomy and Astrophysics 385, pp. 701 - 715 (2002)
Brkovic, A.; Landi, E.; Landini, M.; Rüedi, I.; Solanki, S. K.: Models for solar magnetic loops. II: Comparison with SOHO observations on the solar disk. Astronomy and Astrophysics 383, pp. 661 - 677 (2002)
Krivova, N. A.; Solanki, S. K.: The 1.3-year and 156-day periodicities in sunspot data: wavelet analysis suggests a common origin. Astronomy and Astrophysics 394, pp. 701 - 706 (2002)
Ortiz, A.; Solanki, S. K.; Domingo, V.; Fligge, M.; Sanahuja, B.: On the intensity contrast of solar photospheric faculae and network elements. Astronomy and Astrophysics 388, pp. 1036 - 1047 (2002)
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.
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.