Space and Planets
We aim to better understand the space environments and properties of planetary bodies in our solar system. For that matter we combine analytical models, numerical simulations and observations from spacecraft and telescopes.
Key Research Areas:
- Solar System Bodies and their Plasma Environments
- Exo-Oceans: Searching and Characterising Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans (within ERC-Advanced Grant EXO-OCEANS)
- Turbulence in Space Plasmas
- Searching UV aurora and characterizing the space environment of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
- Planetary Atmospheres
Key Methods:
Selected Publications:
- The Spatiotemporal Structure of Induced Magnetic Fields in Callisto's Plasma Environment Due to Their Propagation With MHD Modes, 2024, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2024JA033235
- Analysis of Enceladus's Time-variable Space Environment to Magnetically Sound its Interior, Planetary Science Journal, 2024, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ad8130
- The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals, 2015, doi:10.1002/2014JA020778
- Transient Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole, 2014, doi: 10.1126/science.1247051
Group Members:
Anne-Cathrine Dott
Dr. Stefan Duling
June Piasecki
Patrick Rogan
Dr. David Strack
Dr. Tetsuya Tokano
Dr. Lex Wennmacher
Emeriti:
Recent Group Members:
Dr. Sebastián Cervantes
Dr. Filip Elekes
Anatol Große-Schware
Dr. Annika Salveter
Dr. Stephan Schlegel
Dr. Jason Winkenstern
