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Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind
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  • Update Date: 13 Feb 2026
  • energetic neutral atom (ENA)
  • image telemetry
  • solar wind
  • magnetosphere
  • interplanetary magnetic field (IMF)
  • heliosphere
  • heliopause
  • planet
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This video is adapted from 10.3390/astronomy1030013

It is doubted whether the “Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) ribbon” signals, especially the peak ones, scanned remotely by IBEX-Hi at the lunar resonance orbit, are really from the heliopause, which involves assessing the scale of solar wind particle energy loss throughout the solar system. The ENA imaging simulation results at the Earth’s orbit show that the scale of the planetary magnetosphere with a telemetry distance of AU magnitude is too small to contribute to the IBEX-Hi ribbon. However, the simulated effective ENA differential fluxes provide a reference for the physical scale evaluation of the huge magnetic structure in the heliopause. The ENA differential flux of the “ENA emission cone” generated by the charge exchange between the solar wind ion flow and local neutral gas near the Earth’s orbit is also comparable to the measured peak of the IBEX-Hi ribbon, which may be the main ENA emission source of the ribbon’s measured peak. The 2D ENA imaging measurements at the Lagrange points proposed here can be used to investigate the ENA ribbon origination by using the energy spectral lag vs the disparity of the ENA images.

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Lu, L.; Yu, Q.; Jia, S.; Chang, Y. Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1768 (accessed on 26 March 2026).
Lu L, Yu Q, Jia S, Chang Y. Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1768. Accessed March 26, 2026.
Lu, Li, Qinglong Yu, Shuai Jia, Yuan Chang. "Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1768 (accessed March 26, 2026).
Lu, L., Yu, Q., Jia, S., & Chang, Y. (2026, February 13). Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1768
Lu, Li, et al. "Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging of Distant Magnetospheres Solar Wind." Encyclopedia. Web. 13 February, 2026.
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