Priscilla C.Frisch Homepage

Keywords: interstellar matter; local fluff; local interstellar matter; heliosphere; interaction between heliosphere and surrounding interstellar cloud. URL: http://astro.uchicago.edu/~frisch/

Visualization: heliosphere and sky; Artist: Nico Berry (image copyrighted)

Homepage of Priscilla C. Frisch

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the a href="uchicago.edu">University of Chicago

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==> Solar Journey: The Significance of our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Download here and the Dedication to Professor John Simpson on page 2

==> NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), launching in 2024, will have a suite of 10 instruments that simultaneously investigate the most important issues in space physics today - how particles are accelerated to high energies in space, how the solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium, and interstellar neutrals and the properties of processed interstellar material inside of the heliosphere.

==> Selected papers

1. "Charting the Interstellar Magnetic Field causing the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Ribbon of Energetic Neutral Atoms"

==> Selected recent papers:

1. "Charting the Interstellar Magnetic Field causing the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Ribbon of Energetic Neutral Atoms" preprint; in press at the Astrophysical Journal; also available at astroph.
2. "Evidence for an Interstellar Dust Filament in the Outer Heliosheath" ApJ reprint and ApJ online.
3. "Correcting the Record on the Analysis of IBEX and STEREO Data Regarding Variations in the Neutral Interstellar Wind" reprint from ApJ and ApJ online
4. "Decades-Long Changes of the Interstellar Wind Through Our Solar System" Science article and online supplementary material for downloading. Also, see the press coverage of Science article at NASA; Science Magazine news and press; University of Chicago; New Scientist; Science Daily; Space.com; Los Angeles Times; Yahoo; Southwest Research Institute; Red Orbit; Sci-News; Astronews; Ars Technica; Nature World News; San Antonio Business Journal; Huffington Post; Space Newsfeed; HNGN; Noodls; Astronomy Now; Nanowerk; Interview on WBEZ, Chicago public radio. News of Astronomy Magazine.

==> Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)

For more about the amazing new IBEX results on the interaction between the interstellar medium and the heliosphere, see the latest papers and data release.

==> Music of the Spheres

==> Useful Links

* Miscellaneous

* Atomic Line list

* Last Day of Summer, 2004 (courtesy of NOAA)

==> Space Weather

==> Science Press

==> Odds and Ends

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