Dr Jacob Heerikhuisen
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
Zirnstein, E. J., Dayeh, M. A., & Heerikhuisen, J. (2021). Dependence of the IBEX ribbon geometry on pitch-angle scattering outside the heliopause. The Astrophysical Journal, 908(1), 35. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abd4e8
Reisenfeld, D. B., Bzowski, M., Funsten, H. O., Heerikhuisen, J., Janzen, P. H., Kubiak, M. A., . . . Zirnstein, E. J. (2021). A three-dimensional map of the Heliosphere from IBEX. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 254(2), 40. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abf658
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
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