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  • Presentation | SH11A: Exploring the Connections Between the Sun, Outer Heliosphere, and Local Interstellar Medium, Including First-Light Results from NASA’s IMAP Mission I Oral
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  • SH11A-05: First Light from the IMAP-Hi Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imager on the IMAP Mission
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Author(s):
Herbert Funsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory (First Author, Presenting Author)
Frederic Allegrini, Southwest Research Institute
Daniel Reisenfeld, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Hanley, Southwest Research Institute
Kirsten Ford, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Paul Janzen, University of Montana
David McComas, Princeton University
Nathan Schwadron, University of New Hampshire Main Campus
Ruth Skoug, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dawn Venhaus, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peter Wurz, University of Bern


By understanding the dynamics and structure of the space environment carved out by the Sun and its continuously-emitted solar wind, we better place our Sun in its context as a star and the ability of exoplanets to support life within a stellar environment that, for example, shields us from lethal galactic cosmic rays. NASA's IMAP mission will provide unprecedented observations, understanding, and discovery of the structure and properties of 'clouds' of plasma that lie at the collision of the solar wind that is continuously emitted from the Sun and the cold material of the interstellar medium through which the Sun is moving. With special glasses to see neutral hydrogen atoms rather than light, three unique imagers aboard IMAP will provide sky maps of energetic hydrogen emitted from plasmas within these distant regions of the heliosphere. We report the first data from the high energy neutral atom imager, IMAP-Hi.



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