Dr Jacob Heerikhuisen
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
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
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
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
Zirnstein, E. J., Dayeh, M. A., Heerikhuisen, J., McComas, D. J., & Swaczyna, P. (2021). Heliosheath proton distribution in the plasma reference frame. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 252(2), 26. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abd092