SH12B:
Physics of the Global Heliosphere and Local Interstellar Medium II


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Session ID#: 61267

Session Description:
Our Sun’s interaction with the interstellar medium controls the shape and processes in the boundary regions of the heliosphere and perturbs the local interstellar medium. Our understanding of this interaction is bolstered by in situ observations of the neutral wind, of pickup ions (PUIs) throughout the heliosphere, by Voyager observations of particles and fields in the boundary region and remote-sensing observations via energetic neutral atoms at 1 AU.  Recently, these observations, among others, also demonstrate the importance of PUIs for the heliosphere dynamics and in the formation of the IBEX Ribbon. To obtain a physical understanding of the global heliosphere all of these data must be combined with theory and models of the underlying plasma physics. As we prepare for IMAP, it will be particularly important to understand how in situ measurements can be connected to remote-sensing data, and what role models can play in providing a reliable framework.
Primary Convener:  John D Richardson, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Eberhard Möbius, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, United States and Justyna M Sokol, Space Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland
Primary Liaison:  Eberhard Möbius, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Chairs:  Nikolai V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States and Jacob Heerikhuisen, U of AL/Huntsville-CSPAR, Huntsville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John D Richardson, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Index Terms:

2124 Heliopause and solar wind termination [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2126 Heliosphere/interstellar medium interactions [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
2152 Pickup ions [INTERPLANETARY PHYSICS]
7845 Particle acceleration [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Overview of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission (396863)
David J McComas, Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA, On behalf of the entire IMAP Team
Improved Understanding of Energetic Particle Acceleration in the Heliosphere from the IMAP mission (355773)
Eric R Christian, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and On behalf of the entire IMAP Team
Surveying the edge of our solar system and the interstellar interaction with IMAP (357867)
Nathan Schwadron, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States and IMAP team
Pickup Ions in the Outer Heliosphere: Revelations by IBEX and Implications for IMAP (Invited) (341318)
Eric Zirnstein, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Pickup Ion Mediated Solar Wind (411483)
Gary Paul Zank1, Lingling Zhao2, Laxman Adhikari3, Parisa Mostafavi4, Eric Zirnstein4 and David J McComas5, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Huntsville, United States, (3)Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Department of Space Science, The university of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, United States, (4)Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
3D Pickup He+ Spectra at 1 AU Observed by the Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer on the Advanced Composition Explorer (Invited) (343365)
Lars Berger, University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany
Pickup Ions at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Measured from the Rosetta Spacecraft (379790)
Raymond Goldstein, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, James L Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, Kristie LLera, Southwest Research Inst, San Antonio, United States, Prachet Mokashi, Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States and Hans Nilsson, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
Qualitative test particle simulations of pitch angle modifications due to Alfvénic waves (362253)
Duncan Keilbach1, Lars Berger2, Verena Heidrich-Meisner2 and Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber2, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany

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