SH14A:
Riddles of the Ribbon: Revealing Signatures of the Outer Heliosphere Embedded in Time, Space, and Energy by IBEX and IMAP II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Herbert O Funsten, Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Herbert O Funsten, Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Herbert O Funsten, Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Revealing Ribbon Riddles: From Ibex’s Discovery to What We Know Now
David J McComas, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
4:15 PM
 
ENA Time Variation in the IBEX skymaps and at the Poles
Daniel Brett Reisenfeld1, Paul H Janzen2, Maciej Bzowski3, Maher A Dayeh4, Herbert O Funsten5, Stephen Fuselier6, Marzena A. Kubiak3, David J McComas6, Nathan Schwadron7 and Justyna M Sokol3, (1)University of Montana, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (3)Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (4)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
4:30 PM
 
Distinguishing Tests of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Ribbon through Numerical Modeling: Current Results and Future Prospects
Eric J Zirnstein, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Physics, Huntsville, AL, United States; Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, AL, United States
4:45 PM
 
Hybrid Simulations for the Turbulence and the Wave-Particle Interaction in the Inner and the Outer Heliopause.
Harald Kucharek, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Nikolai V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Hans-Reinhard Mueller, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States and Konstantin V Gamayunov, Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, Melbourne, FL, United States
5:00 PM
 
Draping of the Interstellar Magnetic Field Over the Heliosphere - A Passive Field Model
Philip A Isenberg, Terry G Forbes and Eberhard Moebius, University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, and Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States
5:15 PM
 
A Heliosphere Buffeted by Interstellar Turbulence?
Jack R Jokipii and Joe Giacalone, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
5:30 PM
 
Charting the Interstellar Magnetic Field behind the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Ribbon
Priscilla C Frisch1, B-G Andersson2, Andrei Berdyugin3, Herbert O Funsten4, Antonio Mario Magalhaes5, David J McComas6,7, Vilppu Piirola3, Nathan Schwadron8, Daiane Seriacopi5, Jonathan D Slavin9 and Sloane Wiktorowicz10, (1)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association San Jose, SOFIA, San Jose, CA, United States, (3)University of Turku, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, Turku, Finland, (4)Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)University de Sao Paulo, Inst. de Astronomia, Geofisica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (6)Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, TX, United States, (7)University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Antonio, TX, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
5:45 PM
 
The ENA Ribbon and the ISN Flow as Key Tools for the ISM-Heliosphere Interaction – Open Questions, the Need for Future Observations with IBEX and IMAP
Eberhard Moebius1, Maciej Bzowski2, Priscilla C Frisch3, Herbert O Funsten4, Stephen Fuselier5, Harald Kucharek6, David J McComas5, Nathan Schwadron1, R F Wimmer-Schweingruber7, Peter Wurz8 and Gary Paul Zank9, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (3)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (4)Los Alamos Natl Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (5)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (6)Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Christian-Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany, (8)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (9)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States