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ReviewSpace science reviews2026

The IMAP-Ultra Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) Imager.

Matina Gkioulidou, G B Clark, D G Mitchell, A R Dupont, K L Anderson, S Begley, M Bzowski, E R Christian, C E Cook, A B Crew and 23 more

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Review in Space science reviews, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. The IMAP Observatory Overview.Space science reviews · 2026
    Review
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. GLObal Solar Wind Structure (GLOWS).Space science reviews · 2025
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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

33 authors.

Matina GkioulidouApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9979-2164
G B ClarkApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
D G MitchellApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
A R DupontApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
K L AndersonApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
S BegleyApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
M BzowskiSpace Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, (CBK PAN), Bartycka 18A, Warsaw, Poland.
E R ChristianNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
C E CookApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
A B CrewApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
M J CullyApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
R DeMajistreApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
T J DiazApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
R J DrexlerApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
N T DuttonApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C J GingrichApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J R HayesApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C M HuberApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J HutchesonApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
S E JaskulekApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
P KollmannApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
M T LeBlancApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J LeesApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
D J McComasDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
K S NelsonApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C W ParkerApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
D B ReisenfeldLos Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.
E A RollendApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
C E SchlemmApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
N A SchwadronSpace Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
R VerrillApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J YenApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.
J YinApplied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a spinner spacecraft in orbit around L1, is taking in situ observations of thermal, pickup, and energetic particles, while simultaneously remotely sensing the effects that these particles have in the outer heliosphere, by measuring Energetic Neutral Atoms (ENA) emissions produced by neutralized energetic ions when they charge exchange with interstellar neutral particles in that region. The IMAP-Ultra instrument (Ultra), one of the three ENA imagers on IMAP, measures the emission of the highest energy ENAs produced in the heliosheath and beyond. Ultra consists of two sensors with one sensor angled at 90° (Ultra

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Energetic neutral atomsHeliosheathHeliosphereIMAPInterstellar mediumTermination shock

Identifiers

PMID41459002
PMCPMC12738616

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