TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure of the IBEX Ribbon from Distributed Sources
AU - Schwadron, N. A.
AU - McComas, D. J.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the many individuals who have made the IBEX project possible. This work is supported by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission as a part of NASA's Explorer Program and partially by NASA SR&T Grant NNG06GD55G.
Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the many individuals who have made the IBEX project possible. This work is supported by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission as a part of NASA’s Explorer Program and partially by NASA SR&T Grant NNG06GD55G.
Publisher Copyright:
© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
PY - 2019/11/14
Y1 - 2019/11/14
N2 - The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission discovered the presence of a global structure in energetic neutral atom emissions from the outer heliosphere not predicted by any model - the IBEX "ribbon". In the search for possible explanations, observations have pointed to a likely source from neutral atoms produced through charge-exchange with the outflowing solar wind. The secondary (neutral) solar wind then undergoes charge-exchange beyond the heliopause to produce the proton population that forms the ribbon. Here we study the plasma structure beyond the heliopause created from distributed secondary neutral atom sources. We provide a framework to analyze the IBEX ribbon taking into account distributed neutral atom sources within the local interstellar medium.
AB - The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission discovered the presence of a global structure in energetic neutral atom emissions from the outer heliosphere not predicted by any model - the IBEX "ribbon". In the search for possible explanations, observations have pointed to a likely source from neutral atoms produced through charge-exchange with the outflowing solar wind. The secondary (neutral) solar wind then undergoes charge-exchange beyond the heliopause to produce the proton population that forms the ribbon. Here we study the plasma structure beyond the heliopause created from distributed secondary neutral atom sources. We provide a framework to analyze the IBEX ribbon taking into account distributed neutral atom sources within the local interstellar medium.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1332/1/012013
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1332/1/012013
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85076229553
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 1332
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012013
T2 - 18th Annual International Astrophysics Conference, AIAC 2019
Y2 - 18 February 2019 through 22 February 2019
ER -