Kimura, H.; Hilchenbach, M.; Merouane, S.; Paquette, J.; Stenzel, O. J.: The morphological, elastic, and electric properties of dust aggregates in comets: A close look at COSIMA/Rosetta’s data on dust in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Planetary and Space Science 181, 104825 (2020)
Nuth, J.A.; Ferguson, F.T.; Homan, W.; Decin, L.; Paquette, J.: Grain formation around the AGB star l2 puppis based on alma observations. The Astrophysical Journal 901 (2), 144 (2020)
Paquette, J.; Engrand, C.; Hilchenbach, M.; Fray, N.; Stenzel, O. J.; Silen, J.; Rynö, J.; Kissel, J.; the COSIMA Team: The oxygen isotopic composition (18O/16O) in the dust of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by COSIMA on-board Rosetta. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477 (3), pp. 3836 - 3844 (2018)
Paquette, J.; Engrand, C.; Stenzel, O. J.; Hilchenbach, M.; Kissel, J.; the COSIMA Team: Errata: Searching for calcium‐aluminum‐rich inclusions in cometary particles with Rosetta/COSIMA. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 53 (3), pp. 549 - 550 (2018)
Paquette, J.; Hornung, K.; Stenzel, O. J.; Rynö, J.; Silen, J.; Kissel, J.; Hilchenbach, M.; The COSIMA Team: The 34S/32S Isotopic Ratio Measured in the Dust of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta/COSIMA. Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 469, pp. S230 - S237 (2017)
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).
The magnetic field in the solar atmosphere exceeds the geomagnetic field strength by four orders of magnitude. It greatly influences the processes of energy transport within the solar atmosphere, and dominates the morphology of the solar chromosphere and corona. Kinetic energy from convective motions in the Sun can be efficiently stored in magnetic fields and subsequently released - to heat the solar corona to several million degrees or to blast off coronal mass ejections.