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The Interstellar Boundary Explorer Science Operations Center |
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| Authors: | N A Schwadron G Crew R Vanderspek F Allegrini M Bzowski R DeMagistre G Dunn H Funsten S A Fuselier K Goodrich M Gruntman J Hanley J Heerikuisen D Heirtlzer P Janzen H Kucharek C Loeffler K Mashburn K Maynard D J McComas E Moebius C Prested B Randol D Reisenfeld M Reno E Roelof P Wu |
| Institution: | 1. Boston University, 725 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 2. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA 5. Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX, 78238, USA 6. Space Research Centre PAS, Bartycka 18A, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland 7. JHU/APL, MP3 E132 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD, 20723, USA 14. Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra, San Antonio, TX, 78238, USA 10. ISR Division, MSB241, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA 12. Space Physics Dept., Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Dept. ADCS, Bldg. 255, 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA, 93404, USA 8. Astronautics and Space Technology Division, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 854 Downey Way, RRB-224, MC-1192, Los Angeles, USA 9. Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA 13. Space Science Center and Dept. of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Morse Hall, 39 College Road, Durham, NH, 03824, USA 11. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA 4. Montana State University, Missoula, USA 3. Austin Mission Consulting, Austin, USA |
| Abstract: | The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Science Operations Center is responsible for supporting analysis of IBEX data, generating special payload command procedures, delivering the IBEX data products, and building the global heliospheric maps of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) in collaboration with the IBEX team. We describe here the data products and flow, the sensor responses to ENA fluxes, the heliospheric transmission of ENAs (from 100 AU to 1 AU), and the process of building global maps of the heliosphere. The vast majority of IBEX Science Operations Center (ISOC) tools are complete, and the ISOC is in a remarkable state of readiness due to extensive reviews, tests, rehearsals, long hours, and support from the payload teams. The software has been designed specifically to support considerable flexibility in the process of building global flux maps. Therefore, as we discover the fundamental properties of the interstellar interaction, the ISOC will iteratively improve its pipeline software, and, subsequently, the heliospheric flux maps that will provide a keystone for our global understanding of the solar wind’s interaction with the interstellar medium. The ISOC looks forward to the next chapter of the IBEX mission, as the tools we have developed will be used in partnership with the IBEX team and the scientific community over the coming years to define our global understanding of the solar wind’s interaction with the local interstellar medium. |
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