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
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., 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
Zirnstein, E. J., Kim, T. K., Mostafavi, P., Heerikhuisen, J., McComas, D. J., & Pogorelov, N. V. (2020). Response of pickup ions in the very local interstellar medium to solar variations: Implications for the evolution of the IBEX Ribbon and interstellar helium. The Astrophysical Journal, 891(1), 56. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab744b
Zirnstein, E. J., Giacalone, J., Kumar, R., McComas, D. J., Dayeh, M. A., & Heerikhuisen, J. (2020). Turbulence in the local interstellar medium and the IBEX Ribbon. The Astrophysical Journal, 888(1), 29. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab594d