Dr. rer. nat. Christian Vocks

Address: Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (AIP)   (Building B20 · Room 41)   An der Sternwarte 16   14482 Potsdam Telephone: +49-331-7499-327 Fax: +49-331-7499-352 PGP: public key and fingerprint

Research Topics

• Development of analysis tools for STEREO/SWAVES data

• Solar radioastronomy with LOFAR

• Kinetic plasma theory in the solar corona and wind

• Numerical plasma simulations and development of simulation codes

• Theory of plasma instabilities

Publications

in refereed journals:

• Vocks, C. & Mann, G.:
  Whistler wave excitation by relativistic electrons in coronal loops during solar flares
  2006, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 452, 331-337

• Vocks, C., Salem, C., Lin, R. P. & Mann, G.:
  Electron halo and strahl formation in the solar wind by resonant interaction with whistler waves
  2005, Astrophysical Journal, 627, 540-549

• Vocks, C. & Mann, G.:
  Electron cyclotron maser emission from solar coronal funnels?
  2004, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 419, 763-770

• Vocks, C. & Mann, G.:
  Generation of suprathermal electrons by resonant wave-particle interaction in the solar corona and wind
  2003, Astrophysical Journal, 593, 1134-1145

• Marsch, E., Vocks, C. & Tu, C.-Y.:
  On ion-cyclotron-resonance heating of the corona and solar wind
  2003, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 10, 101-112

• Peter, H. & Vocks, C.:
  Heating the magnetically open ambient background corona of the Sun by Alfven waves
  2003, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 411, L481-L485

• Vocks, C.:
  A kinetic model for ions in the solar corona including wave-particle interactions and Coulomb collisions
  2002, Astrophysical Journal,  568, 1017-1029

• Vocks, C. & Marsch, E.:
  Kinetic results for ions in the solar corona with wave-particle interactions and Coulomb collisions
  2002, Astrophysical Journal,  568, 1030-1042

• Vocks, C. & Marsch, E.:
  A semi-kinetic model of wave-ion interaction in the solar corona
  2001, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1917-1920

• Glassmeier, K.-H., Musmann, G., Vocks, C. & Menvielle, M.:
  Mars - a planet in magnetic transition?
  2000, Planetary and Space Science, 48, 1153-1159

• Vocks, C., Motschmann, U. & Glassmeier, K.-H.:
  A mode filter for plasma waves in the Hall-MHD approximation
  1999, Annales Geophysicae, 17, 712-722

in proceedings:

• Vocks, C. & Mann, G.:
  Kinetics of electrons in the corona and solar wind
  2003, Proceedings of the 10th Solar Wind Conference, Pisa, Italy, AIP Conference Proceedings, 679, 461-464

• Marsch, E, Tu, C. Y. & Vocks, C.:
  On cyclotron-wave resonance and ion velocity distributions in coronal holes and the fast solar wind
  2002, Proceedings of the SOHO 11 Symposium on From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO, Davos, Switzerland, ESA Publications Division, 395-398

Teaching

• Mann, G. & Vocks, C.: Einführung in die Radioastronomie (Universität Potsdam, 19.10.2006 - 08.02.2007)

• Steinmetz, M. & Vocks, C.: Einführung in die Astronomie und Astrophysik II (Universität Potsdam, 20.04.2006 - 20.07.2006)

• Mann, G., Vocks, C. & Warmuth, A.: Introduction to radioastronomy (Universität Potsdam, 18.10.2005 - 7.2.2006)

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