Dr Jacob Heerikhuisen
Senior Lecturer (Mathematics)
Qualifications: PhD
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
Masters Thesis on modeling Helium in the heliosphere. 2020
PhD (in the USA) on using models to extract information about the heliospheric termination shock from data collected by NASA's IBEX spacecraft. 2017-present
PhD (in the USA) on formulating collision integrals for charge-exchange interactions. 2015-2019.
Recent Publications
Shrestha, B. L., Zirnstein, E. J., Heerikhuisen, J., & Zank, G. P. (2021). Strength of the Termination Shock Inferred from the Globally Distributed Energetic Neutral Atom Flux from IBEX. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 254(2), 32. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abf659
Swaczyna, P., Rahmanifard, F., Zirnstein, E. J., McComas, D. J., & Heerikhuisen, J. (2021). Slowdown and heating of interstellar neutral helium by elastic collisions beyond the heliopause. Letters of the Astrophysical Journal, 911(2). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abf436 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14279
Fuselier, S. A., Galli, A., Richardson, J. D., Reisenfeld, D. B., Zirnstein, E. J., Heerikhuisen, J., . . . Dialynas, K. (2021). Energetic Neutral Atom Fluxes from the Heliosheath: Constraints from in situ Measurements and Models. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 915(2), L26. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac0d5c
Fraternale, F., Pogorelov, N. V., & Heerikhuisen, J. (2021). Transport of Interstellar Neutral Helium throughout the Heliosphere. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 921(2), L24. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac313c
Keywords
Astrophysics; Computing; Mathematics; Physics
Heliosphere
Computational Modeling
Monte-Carlo Methods