Instabilities and Magnetic Reconnection at the Heliopause Affect the Galactic Cosmic Ray Flux and Ion Acceleration

Nikolai V Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Space Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Grzegorz Kowal, University of Sao Paulo, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Ming Zhang, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States, Laura Carrington, University of California San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA, United States and Tae K. Kim, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, CSPAR, Madison, AL, United States