Table 5 Grants supported by NASA’s GI program that enrich IBEX
| PI: | Affiliation: | Title: |
| Maher A. Dayeh | Southwest Research Institute | Determining the processes affecting the asymmetric plasma sheet structure |
| Jacob Heerikhuisen | University of Alabama (Hunt.) | Global modeling of ENA fluxes in the heliosphere |
| Jozsef Kota | University of Arizona | Theory, Hybrid Simulation, and Modeling of ENAs in the Heliosheath |
| Harald Kucharek | University of New Hampshire | Ion Distribution Functions at the Termination Shock |
| Ming Zhang | Florida Institute of Technology | A Module of Particle Acceleration for the Calculation of ENA Emission |
| Jorg-Micha Jahn | Southwest Research Institute | Magnetospheric observation with IBEX |
International partners have provided a large number of essential contributions to the success of the IBEX mission. Co-Investigators in Poland, Switzerland, Russia, and Germany, funded by national agencies, contributed significantly to IBEX hardware, data analyses, and data interpretation.
Represented by the group around Prof. Dr. Maciej Bzowski, Polish investigators provided outstanding support in determining the accuracy of the pointing of IBEX-Lo by using the Star Sensor data. This is of extreme importance for determining the interstellar gas flow parameters. This group also supported the IBEX-Lo data analysis for the interstellar flow by performing test particle simulations. These calculations are considered as the third building block next to analytic considerations and data analysis to provide reliable interstellar flow parameters. The Polish group also provides invaluable support tracing the ENA observations back to the termination shock and the heliopause, including carefully monitoring the ionization losses.
No N522 002 31/0902 System of modeling, visualization, and distribution of data from the IBEX-Lo instrument on the NASA space mission Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
No NS-1260-11-09 Science and technology involvement of Poland in the space mission IBEX
No N-N203-513-038What does IBEX see -- an attempt to interpret first results from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer
Dr. Maciej Bzowski
Dr. Eng. Marek Hlond
Dr. Andrzej Czechowski
Professor Stanislaw Grzedzielski
Dr. Marek Strumik
Ms Jolanta Grygorczuk
Ms Marzena A. Kubiak
Ms Justyna M. Sokół (PhD student)
Mr Sławomir Tarnopolski (PhD student)
Ms Marta Wachowicz (PhD student)
Mr Pawel Swaczyna (undergraduate student)
Mr Jakub Smyk (undergraduate student)
Represented by Prof. Dr. P. Wurz and Prof. Dr. P. Bochsler at the University of Bern, contributed substantially to the understanding of geometric factor and onboard data of IBEX-lo. Their scientific contributions have helped to characterize interstellar hydrogen, Deuterium, as well as the Ne/O ratio. They also contributed to the accurate determination of the interstellar flow parameter by performing Monte Carlo simulations and applying maximum likelihood analysis studies.
Funding Agency:
Swiss Space Office (PRODEX Grant):
Funded proposals
Grant: Imaging of the heliospheric-interstellar gas boundary with energetic neutrals
Funding Agency:
Swiss National Science Foundation:
Funded proposals
Grant: Investigation of the solar system with in-situ mass spectrometry and remote sensing techniques
Represented by Prof. Dr. Vladislav V. Izmodenov and collaborators, supported the IBEX-lo data analysis by modeling of the heliospheric interface, which is the result of the solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium. They developed a kinetic-gasdynamic and a kinetic Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) model to investigate the stochastic acceleration model for pickup ions and the supersonic solar wind ions and in the heliosheath. These models are of particular interest to understand the energy spectrum of the Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs).
Funding Agency:
Russian Foundation of Basic Research
Funded proposals
"3D structure of the heliospheric boundary: analyses of heliospheric ENA fluxes and backscattered solar Lyman-alpha by using kinetic-gasdynamic models"
Represented by the University of Bonn by Prof. Dr. Hans J. Fahr and Dr. H. Fichtner at the University of Bochum and their scientific teams, supported the IBEX mission with theoretical considerations for possible source regions and populations of the IBEX ribbon. Using their theoretical models they provided estimates of the energetic neutral atom fluxes from the heliosheath and their variation during the activity phase of the solar cycle.
Funding Agency:
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft):
Funded proposals:
- Si-1550/2-1: Studying the ribbon feature observed by IBEX in the outer heliosphere.
- Si-1550/2-2: Interpretation of the ribbon-like ENA feature oberved by IBEX.
Funding from DFG for IBEX Workshops:
(a) Workshop "Cosmic Rays and the Heliospheric Plasma Environment", see http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/Bochum/
(b) IBEX SWT & Workshop: "Three Years of Observations with IBEX - What did
we learn about the Outer Heliosphere?" see http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/BadHonnef/