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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft is providing the first all-sky maps of the energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) produced by charge-exchange between interstellar neutral \HI\ atoms and heliospheric solar wind and pickup ions…

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite collects data on energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) that provide insight into the heliosphere, the region surrounding our solar system and separating it from interstellar space. IBEX collects…

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission is exploring the frontiers of the heliosphere where energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) are formed from charge exchange between interstellar neutral hydrogen atoms and solar wind ions and pickup…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-17 Priscilla C. Frisch , David J. McComas

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has been measuring fluxes of the Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs) using the IBEX-Hi (0.3 -- 6 keV) instrument since 2008. We have developed a numerical time-depended code to calculate globally…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-01 I. I. Baliukin , V. V. Izmodenov , D. B. Alexashov

Since 2008, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite has been gathering data on heliospheric energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) while being exposed to various sources of background noise, such as cosmic rays and solar energetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Kelly R. Moran , Dave Osthus , Brian P. Weaver , Lauren J. Beesley , Madeline A. Stricklin , Paul H. Janzen , Daniel B. Reisenfeld

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite collects data on energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) that can provide insight into the heliosphere boundary between our solar system and interstellar space. Using these data, scientists can…

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) images the heliosphere by observing energetic neutral atoms (ENAs). The IBEX-Hi instrument onboard IBEX provides full-sky maps of ENA fluxes produced in the heliosphere and very local interstellar…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 P. Swaczyna , M. A. Dayeh , E. J. Zirnstein

Understanding the outer heliospheric interface is a major challenge, especially in the light of recent observations by the IBEX and Voyager missions. We present further details on a new required theoretical correction that has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. Siewert , H. -J. Fahr

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has now operated in space for 7 years and returned nearly continuous observations that have led to scientific discoveries and reshaped our entire understanding of the outer heliosphere and its…

Several concepts for heliospheric missions operating at heliocentric distances far beyond Earth orbit are currently investigated by the scientific community. The mission concept of the Interstellar Probe (McNutt et al. 2018), e.g., aims at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Andre Galli , Peter Wurz , Horst Fichtner , Yoshifumi Futaana , Stas Barabash

Direct-sampling observations of interstellar neutral (ISN) He by Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) provide valuable insight into the physical state of and processes operating in the interstellar medium ahead of the heliosphere. The ISN…

Data collected by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, recording heliospheric energetic neutral atoms (ENAs), exhibit a phenomenon that has caused space scientists to revise hypotheses about the physical processes, and…

ESA's Hera space mission is on its way to the mission target, the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos. HyperScout-H, one of the instruments onboard Hera, is a hyperspectral imager operating in the visible and near-infrared regions between 0.65…

This paper is one of three companion papers presenting the results of our in-depth analysis of the interstellar neutral helium (ISN He) observations carried out using the IBEX-Lo during the first six Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)…

The brightest and most surprising feature in the first all-sky maps of Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENA) emissions (0.2-6 keV) produced by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is an almost circular ribbon of a ~140{\deg} opening angle,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Grzedzielski , M. Bzowski , A. Czechowski , H. O. Funsten , D. J. McComas , N. A. Schwadron

Full sky maps of energetic neutral atoms (ENA) obtained with the Interstellar Boundary Explorer revealed a bright, arc-like Ribbon. We compare possible, though as yet undetected, He ENA emission in two models of the Ribbon origin. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-05 P. Swaczyna , S. Grzedzielski , M. Bzowski

One of the major priorities of international radio astronomy is to study the early universe through the detection of the 21 cm HI line from the epoch of reionisation (EoR). Due to the weak nature of the 21 cm signal, an important part in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Michael A. Kriele , Randall B. Wayth , Mark J. Bentum , Budi Juswardy , Cathryn M. Trott

Radiative transfer equilibrium models of nearby interstellar matter (ISM) yield the boundary conditions of the heliosphere when constrained with observations of ISM inside and outside of the heliosphere. Filtration factors for interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priscilla C. Frisch

Energetic neutral atoms (ENA) are an important tool for investigating the structure of the heliosphere. Recently, it was observed that fluxes of ENAs (with energy $\le$ 55 keV) coming from the upwind and downwind regions of the heliosphere…

We present new kinetic-gasdynamic model of the solar wind interaction with the local interstellar medium. The model incorporates several processes suggested by McComas et al. (2009) for the origin of the heliospheric ENA ribbon -- the most…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. V. Chalov , D. B. Alexashov , D. McComas , V. V. Izmodenov , Yu. G. Malama , N. Schwadron
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