Pickup Ion Energization throughout the heliosphere
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University) Pickup ions (PUIS) produced by the ionization of interstellar and inner-source neutral atoms and subsequently advected by the solarView More
Author: bishwasls@princeton.edu
Bishwas Shrestha is a 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.
Shocks and Pickup Ions in the Outer Heliosphere
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University) Interplanetary shocks driven by solar wind structures propagate outward, evolving continuously as they sweep through the outer heliosphere. AsView More
High-Resolution Observations of Pickup Ion Mediated Shocks to 60 au
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University), David J. McComas (Princeton University), Eric J. Zirnstein (Princeton University), George Livadiotis (Princeton University), Heather A. Elliott (Southwest ResearchView More
Anomalous Behavior of Solar Wind at Distant Interplanetary Shocks
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University), Eric J. Zirnstein (Princeton University), David J. McComas (Princeton University) The distant interplanetary shocks observed by the Solar WindView More
Suprathermal Pickup Ion Tails in the Outer Heliosphere
Authors: Bishwas L. Shrestha (Princeton University), Eric J. Zirnstein (Princeton University), David J. McComas (Princeton University) Interstellar Pickup ions (PUIs) are created by ionization ofView More