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Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration Probe: The NASA IMAP Mission.

D J McComas, E R Christian, N A Schwadron, M Gkioulidou, F Allegrini, D N Baker, M Bzowski, G Clark, C M S Cohen, I Cohen and 48 more

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Review in Space science reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The IMAP Magnetometer.Space science reviews · 2026
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  9. The IMAP Observatory Overview.Space science reviews · 2026
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  13. GLObal Solar Wind Structure (GLOWS).Space science reviews · 2025
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  16. The theory of thermodynamic relativity.Scientific reports · 2024
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  17. Exploring the universe through dusty visions.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2024
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  18. Entropy defect in thermodynamics.Scientific reports · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

58 authors.

D J McComasDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6160-1158
E R ChristianHeliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
N A SchwadronSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
M GkioulidouJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
F AllegriniSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
D N BakerLaboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
M BzowskiSpace Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN), Bartycka 18A, Warsaw, Poland.
G ClarkJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C M S CohenCalifornia Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
I CohenJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C ColluraJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
M J CullyJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
S DallaUniversity of Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE UK.
M I DesaiSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
A DriesmanJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
D EngJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
N J FoxScience Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., 20546 USA.
H O FunstenLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
S A FuselierSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
A GalliSpace Research & Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
J GiacaloneDepartment of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA.
J HahnJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
K P HegartyJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
T HorburyImperial College London, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ UK.
M HoranyiLaboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
L M KistlerSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
M A KubiakSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
S KubotaJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
S LiviSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
N LugazSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
C O LeeSpace Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
J LuhmannSpace Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA.
W MatthaeusDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA.
D G MitchellJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J G MitchellHeliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
E MoebiusSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
S PopeSouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
E ProvornikovaJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J S RankinDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
D B ReisenfeldLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
C RenoDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
J D RichardsonKavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.
C T RussellDepartment of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.
M M Shaw-LecerfDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
J ScherrerJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
R M SkougLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
M M ShenDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
H E SpenceSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
Z SternovskyLaboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303 USA.
M StrumikSpace Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN), Bartycka 18A, Warsaw, Poland.
J R SzalayDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
M TapleySouthwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA.
M TokumaruNagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan.
D L TurnerJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
S WeidnerDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
J WestlakeScience Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., 20546 USA.
P WurzScience Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., 20546 USA.
G P ZankDepartment of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission provides extensive and well-coordinated new observations of the inner and outer heliosphere and scientific closure on two of the most important topics in Heliophysics: 1) the acceleration of charged particles and 2) the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. These topics are intimately coupled because particles accelerated in the inner heliosphere propagate outward through the solar wind and mediate its interaction with the very local interstellar medium (VLISM). The IMAP mission is designed to address these topics, provide extensive new real-time measurements critical to Space Weather observations and predictions, and much more. IMAP's ten instruments are mounted on a simple, spinning spacecraft that orbits about the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point, L1, and repoints its Sun-facing solar arrays and spin axis toward the Sun each day. The instruments provide complete and synergistic observations that examine particle energization processes at 1 au while simultaneously probing the global heliospheric interaction with the VLISM. The 1 au in-situ observations include solar wind electrons and ions from solar wind through suprathermal energies, pickup and energetic ions, as well as the interplanetary magnetic field. IMAP provides Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) global imaging of the outer heliosphere via ENAs from tens of eV up through hundreds of keV, as well as observations of interstellar neutral atoms traversing the heliosphere. IMAP also directly measures interstellar dust that enters the heliosphere and the solar-wind-modulated ultraviolet glow. This paper provides the mission overview for the full IMAP mission, acts as a roadmap to the other papers in this IMAP collection and provides the citable reference for the overall IMAP mission going forward. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11214-025-01224-z.

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ENAsEnergetic particlesHeliosphereIBEXIMAPInterstellar mediumMagnetic fieldsPlasmaSolar windSpace weather

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PMID41179230
PMCPMC12575477

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