Recent IBEX Observations and the Evolving Interstellar Interaction (Invited)

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Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsh23d..05m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SH23D-05

Physics

[2124] Interplanetary Physics / Heliopause And Solar Wind Termination, [2126] Interplanetary Physics / Heliosphere/Interstellar Medium Interactions, [2151] Interplanetary Physics / Neutral Particles, [2152] Interplanetary Physics / Pickup Ions

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The first all-sky maps of Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENAs) from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) exhibited smoothly varying, globally distributed flux and a narrow “ribbon” of enhanced ENA emissions (McComas et al., 2009 and other papers in the same issue of Science). Since then, IBEX has completed two more full sky maps, which show that this large-scale structure has been generally stable over the past year. However, these observations also show some very intriguing smaller scale temporal changes in the outer heliospheric emissions. This paper provides an update on the recent IBEX observations in general and examines the temporal variations in particular. The observed large-scale stability and the systematic changes at smaller spatial scales provide important new information about the outer heliosphere and its global interaction with the galaxy, and help inform possible mechanisms for producing the globally distributed ENA flux and IBEX ribbon. (On behalf of the IBEX Science Team) McComas, D.J., et al., Global observations of the interstellar interaction from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), Science, 326, doi: 10.1126/science.1180906, 959-962, 2009.

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