Space and Astrophysics – Theses
Students interested in doing a Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis at TP IV should contact Reinhard Schlickeiser for more information. Currently available topics are:
- Whistler waves in dusty plasmas
- Marginal instability conditions of magnetized thermal anistropic plasmas
- Resonant particle-wave interactions in cosmic plasmas
- Fluctuations of magnetized plasmas
- Secondary electron production by ultrahighenergy cosmic rays
- Cosmic ray ionization and heating of interstellar clouds
- Quasilinear relaxation of the mirror- and firehose-instability
- Cosmic ray transport in chaotic magnetic fields
- Renormalized quasilinear transport theory of cosmic rays
- Focused transport and acceleration of cosmic rays
- Nonlinear synchrotron-self Compton emission of relativistic electrons in equipartition magnetic fields: spectral energy distributions and light curves
Ongoing theses by group members:
| Title | Author | Type |
|---|---|---|
| T. Tolksdorf | Ph.D. |
Finished Ph.D. theses by group members:
| Title | Author | Year | Type | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wechselwirkungsprozesse niederenergetischer Protonen und Alfvénwellendynamik in Molekülwolken | M. Caglar | 2018 | Ph.D. | |
| Kinetic theory of fluctuations in astrophysical plasmas | U. Kolberg | 2018 | Ph.D. | |
| Propagation of cosmic rays in the interstellar and intergalactic medium | S. Krakau | 2016 | Ph.D. | |
| Effects of a finite downstream medium in diffusive cosmic ray acceleration at relativistic shock waves | T. Antecki | 2016 | Ph.D. | |
| Plasma Instabilities of Particle Beams in the Intergalactic Medium | A. Kempf | 2015 | Ph.D. | |
| Linear theory of kinetic instabilities in counterstreaming bi-Maxwellian plasmas | S. Vafin | 2015 | Ph.D. | |
| The Cascade Emission of Blazars | U. Menzler | 2015 | Ph.D. | |
| Plasma effects on fast electron-positron pair beams in cosmic voids | M. Supsar | 2014 | Ph.D. | |
| Temperature instabilities in the solar wind plasma | M. Michno | 2014 | Ph.D. | |
| Spontan emittierte Fluktuationen in unmagnetisierten Plasmen und der Ursprung kosmischer Magnetfelder | T. Felten | 2014 | Ph.D. | |
| On the significance of the time-dependent treatment of blazar flares | M. Zacharias | 2013 | Ph.D. | |
| Linear theory of temperature instabilities in magnetized thermal plasmas | T. Skoda | 2013 | Ph.D. | |
| Die Instabilitäten der gewöhnlichen Mode in Gegenstromplasmen | D. Ibscher | 2013 | Ph.D. | |
| Diffusive Beschreibung des fokussierten Transports solarer energiereicher geladener Teilchen | S. Artmann | 2013 | Ph.D. | |
| Calculation of turbulence power spectra from anisotropic damping | P. Hofmann | 2011 | Ph.D. | |
| Über die Energiebilanz und Dynamik kosmischer Elektronen | J. Ruppel | 2010 | Ph.D. | |
| Weiterentwicklung des Pick-up-Modell für relativistische Jets | D. Gerbig | 2010 | Ph.D. | |
| Plasmainstabilitäten in anisotropen Gegenstromverteilungen | A. Stockem | 2009 | Ph.D. | |
| Nonlinear electron synchrotron cooling and synchrotron self-Compton flaring of TeV blazars | C. Röken | 2009 | Ph.D. | |
| Lineare und nichtlineare Moden in stossfreien unmagnetisierten Plasmen | U. Schaefer-Rolffs | 2008 | Ph.D. | |
| Confinement and Anisotropy of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays in Isotropic Plasma Wave Turbulence | M. Vukcevic | 2007 | Ph.D. | |
| Instabilitäten und Teilchentransport in stossfreien, astrophysikalischen Plasmen | R. Tautz | 2006 | Ph.D. | |
| Polarisation magnetohydrodynamischer Wellen | A. Dogan | 2005 | Ph.D. | |
| Acceleration and spatial dffusion of galactic cosmic rays | R. Weyer | 2005 | Ph.D. | |
| Inverse Comptonstreuung und die Hochenergie-Emission relativistischer Stosswellen | C. Arbeiter | 2005 | Ph.D. | |
| Plasmawellendampfung und ihre Interaktion mit dem Transport kosmischer Strahlung | F. Spanier | 2005 | Ph.D. | |
| Nichtthermische Heizung und Temperaturbilanz in Jets aktiver galaktischer Kerne | M. Siewert | 2005 | Ph.D. | |
| Auswirkung magnetohydrodynamischer Turbulenz und Teilchen-Welle-Wechselwirkung in relativistischen Ausflüssen | C. Schuster | 2004 | Ph.D. | |
| On the Time-Dependent Propagation of Cosmic Rays | I. Büsching | 2004 | Ph.D. | |
| Topological link invariants of magnetic fields | C. Mayer | 2003 | Ph.D. | |
| On solar wind magnetic fluctuations and their influence on the transport of charged particles in the heliosphere | O. Stawicki | 2003 | Ph.D. | |
| Transport kosmischer Strahlung in der anisotropen magnetohydrodynamischen Turbulenz | A. Schalchi | 2003 | Ph.D. |