Dr Jacob Heerikhuisen
Senior Lecturer (Mathematics)
Qualifications: PhD
Contact Details
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.
Teaching Commitments
Recent Publications
Kleimann, J., Dialynas, K., Fraternale, F., Galli, A., Heerikhuisen, J., Izmodenov, V., . . . Pogorelov, N. (2022). The Structure of the Large-Scale Heliosphere as Seen by Current Models. Space Science Reviews, 218(4). doi:10.1007/s11214-022-00902-6
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
Zirnstein, E. J., Kumar, R., Bandyopadhyay, R., Dayeh, M. A., Heerikhuisen, J., & McComas, D. J. (2021). Turbulent Acceleration of Interstellar Pickup Ions at the Heliospheric Termination Shock Forms the Global ENA Spectrum. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 916(2). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac12cc
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