Author: Bishwas L. Shrestha

Bishwas Shrestha is a Postdoctoral Researcher interested in the pickup ion (PUI) dynamics at shocks and energetic neutral atom (ENA) emission from the solar wind-local interstellar medium interaction. His Ph.D. thesis was focused on using global ENA models to extract information about the heliospheric termination shock from ENAs observed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. He has developed a method to estimate the strength of the heliospheric termination shock in several directions of the sky using IBEX observations. At Princeton, Bishwas is working on analyzing the hi-cadence in-situ measurement of PUIs in the outer heliosphere from the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument onboard New Horizons. He is also working on the hi-resolution ENA observations from IBEX to understand the time-dependent evolution of our heliosphere. In addition, Bishwas is leading the development of the Level 3 algorithms for the Solar Wind and Pickup Ion (SWAPI) instrument being developed at Princeton University by the Space Physics Group.