Overview of the Instellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) Mission

Abstract

<p>This talk provides an overview of the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission and what we hope and expect to learn from it. IMAP is currently in Phase B and is slated to launch in the fall of 2024. IMAP simultaneously investigates two of the most important, and intimately coupled, research areas in Heliophysics today: 1) the acceleration of energetic particles and 2) the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. IMAP’s ten instruments provide a complete set of observations to simultaneously examine the particle injection and acceleration processes at 1 AU while remotely dissecting the global heliospheric interaction and its response to particle populations generated through these processes. For more information about IMAP, see: McComas, D.J., et al., Interstellar mapping and acceleration Probe (IMAP): A New NASA Mission, Space Science Review, 214:116, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0550-1, 2018.</p><p>Open Access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11214-018-0550-1 </p>