IBEX OBSERVATIONS OF INTERSTELLAR NEUTRAL ATOMS IN THE INNER HELIOSPHERE PROVIDE THE MOST DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS OF THE SURROUNDING INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM AND THE INTERACTION OF THIS FLOW WITH THE OUTER HELIOSHEATH. AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT DIAGNOSTIC TOOL IS THE SECONDARY COMPONENT OF THE INTERSTELLAR NEUTRAL GAS FLOW THAT ORIGINATES FROM CHARGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN PRIMARY INTERSTELLAR NEUTRALS AND THE PLASMA IN THE INNER AND OUTER HELIOSHEATH. THE INTERSTELLAR PLASMA IS DIVERTED AROUND THE HELIOSPHERE AND THE NEUTRALS THAT ARE EMITTED FROM THIS FLOW THROUGH CHARGE EXCHANGE CARRY INFORMATION ON THE DIVERTED FLOW. WE PROPOSE TO: CONSTRUCT SKY MAPS OF SECONDARY NEUTRAL HE O AND H FROM OBSERVED IBEX-LO FLUXES CORRECTED FOR BACKGROUND AND SPUTTERING EFFECTS. PROCESS THESE SKY MAPS THROUGH THREE SEQUENTIAL STATISITICAL ANALYSES AND QUANTIFY THE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EACH PIXEL WITHIN EACH ENERGY STEP OF THE IBEX-LO INSTRUMENT. USE THESE MAPS TO INFER THE LARGE-SCALE PLASMA FLOWS IN THE INNER AND OUTER HELIOSHEATH GUIDED BY IDEALIZED THEORETICAL MODELS. WITH THIS APPROACH WE WILL IMPROVE OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERSTELLAR PLASMA FLOW AROUND THE HELIOSPHERE. THE STRENGTH OF THIS APPROACH IS THAT IT IS BASED ON THE DATA. IT THUS COMPLEMENTS LARGE-SCALE MHD SIMULATIONS THAT ARE COMPUTATIONALLY DEMANDING AND DEPEND ON THE DETAILED MICROPHYSICAL INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SOLAR WIND AND THE INTERSTELLAR PARTICLES. THE DATA ANALYSIS OF THESE GLOBAL MHD SIMULATIONS IS COMPLEX AND TIME CONSUMING. WE THEREFORE ALSO PROPOSE TO: ESTIMATE THE SHAPE OF THE HELIOPAUSE AND OTHER LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURES AS INDICATED BY THE EMPIRICALLY INFERRED PLASMA FLOWS. THESE RESULTS WILL INFORM AND GUIDE THE GLOBAL MHD MODELS WHERE THE SHAPE OF THE HELIOSPHERE RESULTS FROM PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS ASSUMED IN THE NUMERICAL MODEL ITSELF. A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT SHAPES FOR THE HELIOSPHERE AND THEIR IMPRINT IN THE IBEX SKY MAPS CAN BE STUDIED IN A RELATIVELY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROPOSED WORK INCLUDES NEW DATA PRODUCTS (SPUTTER-CORRECTED SPECIESSEPARATED DATA/MAPS) AS WELL AS INTERPRETATION IN TERMS OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURES AS IMAGED BY THE DATA. THUS THIS PROJECT IS IDEAL FOR NASA S GUEST INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM. RELEVANCE TO IBEX MISSION AND DECADAL SURVEY GOALS: WITH THESE INVESTIGATIONS WE WILL CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE DATA SET FOR THE IBEX MEASUREMENTS OF H HE AND O CORRECTED FOR SPUTTERING EFFECTS AT ALL ENERGIES DIRECTIONS AND ORBITS FROM YEAR 2009 TO 2014 (NO OXYGEN DATA ARE AVAILABLE AFTER THIS DATE). THIS WILL BE THE FIRST ANALYSIS IN WHICH ALL IBEX PIXEL MAPS WILL BE STATISTICALLY EVALUATED TO RELIABLY DETERMINE THE REGIONS OF ENHANCED EMISSION ON THE SKY. DEFINING THESE STRUCTURES OF LOW INTENSITY NEUTRAL EMISSION REGIONS WILL PROVIDE NEW INSIGHT INTO THE GLOBAL SHAPE AND FLOW PATTERNS AROUND THE HELIOPSHERE. THE PROPOSED WORK IS DIRECTLY RELEVANT TO THE DECADAL SURVEY GOAL TO DETERMINE THE INTERACTION OF THE SUN WITH THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE IS MEDIUM.