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Dr. Horst Balthasar

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Scientific interests

Spectro-polarimetry of sunspots and other features of solar magnetic activity

Physics of the quiet Sun

Differential rotation of the Sun

Solar Physics
Guest
Office: HH/204
Phone: +49 331 7499 408
hbalthasarnothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam

Publications

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

Ionization memory of plasma emitters in a solar prominence
Wiehr, E., Balthasar, H., Stellmacher, G., Bianda, M., 2025
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 696, A209; published April 2025
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451526, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
The dependence of the magnetism of a near-limb sunspot on height
Benko, M., Balthasar, H., Gömöry, P., Kuckein, C., González Manrique, S. J., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 686, A194; published June 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348617, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
The European Solar Telescope
Quintero Noda, C., ... Balthasar, H., ... Denker, C., ... Dineva, E., ... Hofmeister, S., ... Kamlah, R., ... Kontogiannis, I., ... Strassmeier, K. G., ... Verma, M., ... Wisniewska, A., ..., 2022
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 666, A21; published October 2022
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243867, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
Velocity Difference of Ions and Neutrals in Solar Prominences
Wiehr, E., Stellmacher, G., Balthasar, H., Bianda, M., 2021
The Astrophysical Journal, 920, 1, 47; published October 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac1791, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
Multiple Stokes I inversions for inferring magnetic fields in the spectral range around Cr I 5782 Å
Kuckein, C., Balthasar, H., ... Diercke, A., ... Denker, C., Verma, M., Kontogiannis, I., ..., 2021
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 653, A165; published September 2021
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202140596, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
Properties of the inner penumbra boundary and temporal evolution of a decaying sunspot (Corrigendum)
Benko, M., ... Balthasar, H., ... Kuckein, C., ..., 2021
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 652, C7; published August 2021
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201834296e, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
Classification of High-resolution Solar Hα Spectra Using t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
Verma, M., Matijevič, G., Denker, C., Diercke, A., Dineva, E., Balthasar, H., Kamlah, R., Kontogiannis, I., Kuckein, C., Pal, P. S., 2021
The Astrophysical Journal, 907, 1, 54; published January 2021
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abcd95, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
Observational study of chromospheric heating by acoustic waves
Abbasvand, V., ... Denker, C., Balthasar, H., Verma, M., Kontogiannis, I., ... Kuckein, C., 2020
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A52; published October 2020
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038559, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
High-resolution Spectroscopy of an Erupting Minifilament and Its Impact on the Nearby Chromosphere
Kontogiannis, I., Dineva, E., Diercke, A., Verma, M., Kuckein, C., Balthasar, H., Denker, C., 2020
The Astrophysical Journal, 898, 2, 144; published August 2020
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aba117, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics
High-resolution spectroscopy of a surge in an emerging flux region
Verma, M., Denker, C., Diercke, A., Kuckein, C., Balthasar, H., Dineva, E., Kontogiannis, I., Pal, P. S., ..., 2020
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 639, A19; published July 2020
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936762, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Solar Physics