4 papers
Signatures of Reconnection and a Split Heliospheric Tail in High-Energy Energetic Neutral Atoms
M. Kornbleuth, M. Opher, J. F. Drake +10
The shape of the heliosphere, regarded as comet-like since the 1960s, has recently been the subject of intense debate in the last decade. There is disagreement whether the heliosph…
The Effect of Magnetic Field Dissipation in the Inner Heliosheath: Reconciling Global Heliosphere Model and Voyager Data
Sergey D. Korolkov, Igor I. Baliukin, Merav Opher
Global ideal magnetohydrodynamic models of the heliosphere typically predict a greatly exaggerated magnetic field pile-up in the inner heliosheath (IHS), the region between the ter…
Understanding the IBEX ribbon using the kinetic model of pickup proton transport in a scatter-free limit
Igor Baliukin, Vladislav Izmodenov
One of the most remarkable discoveries by the IBEX is the ribbon - a narrow band of enhanced ENA fluxes observed in the sky. The prevailing explanation attributes the IBEX ribbon t…
Impact of Stochastic Acceleration on the Pickup Proton Distribution and ENA Fluxes in the Heliosphere
Igor Baliukin
The paper describes a kinetic model of pickup proton distribution in the heliosphere that considers the process of stochastic acceleration by the small-scale Alfvenic and large-sca…