Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencySchool of Physical Sciences Department of Space and Astronautical Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- Degree
- 博士 (理学)(Mar, 2005, 東京大学)
- Researcher number
- 90403641
- ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4384-9568- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201101033666007265
- researchmap Member ID
- B000004312
Research Interests
11Research Areas
3Research History
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Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007
Papers
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JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, 11(4) 75-75, Oct 1, 2025 Peer-reviewed
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JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS, 11(3), Jul 1, 2025 Peer-reviewed
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 91-91, Aug 23, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 86-86, Aug 23, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 203-203, Aug 23, 2024
Misc.
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 817(2), Dec 12, 2015
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大気球シンポジウム: 平成27年度 = Balloon Symposium: 2015, Nov, 2015大気球シンポジウム 平成27年度(2015年11月5-6日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所 (JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 Balloon Symposium 2015 (November 5-6, 2015. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 34名 資料番号: SA6000044037 レポート番号: isas15-sbs-037
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大気球シンポジウム: 平成27年度 = Balloon Symposium: 2015, Nov, 2015大気球シンポジウム 平成27年度(2015年11月5-6日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所 (JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 Balloon Symposium 2015 (November 5-6, 2015. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 14名 資料番号: SA6000044038 レポート番号: isas15-sbs-038
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Apr 8, 2015The relativistic jet in M87 offers a unique opportunity for understanding the<br /> detailed jet structure and emission processes due to its proximity. In<br /> particular, the peculiar jet region HST-1 at ~1 arcsecond (or 80 pc, projected)<br /> from the nucleus has attracted a great deal of interest in the last decade<br /> because of its superluminal motion and broadband radio-to-X-ray outbursts,<br /> which may be further connected to the gamma-ray productions up to TeV energies.<br /> Over the last five years, we have been doing an intensive monitoring of HST-1<br /> with EVN at 5GHz in order to examine the detailed structural evolution and its<br /> possible connection to high-energy activities. While this program already<br /> yielded interesting results in terms of the detailed mas-scale structure,<br /> proper motion measurements and structural variations, the recent HST-1<br /> brightness is continuously decreasing at this frequency. To counter this, we<br /> have shifted our monitoring frequency to 1.7GHz from October 2013. This<br /> strategy successfully recovered the fainter emission that was missed in the<br /> last 5GHz session. Moreover, we again discovered the sudden emergence of a new<br /> component at the upstream edge of HST-1, demonstrating that the use of EVN<br /> 1.7GHz is indeed powerful to probe the current weak nature of HST-1. Here we<br /> report early results from the 1.7GHz monitoring as well as further progress on<br /> the long-term kinematic study.
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26th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, ICAST 2015, Jan 1, 2015
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大気球シンポジウム: 平成26年度 = Balloon Symposium: 2014, Nov, 2014大気球シンポジウム 平成26年度(2014年11月6-7日. 宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所 (JAXA)(ISAS)), 相模原市, 神奈川県 Balloon Symposium 2014 (November 6-7, 2014. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)(ISAS)), Sagamihara, Kanagawa Japan 著者人数: 26名 資料番号: SA6000021016 レポート番号: isas14-sbs-016
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 10(S313) 340-345, Sep, 2014 Peer-reviewed<title>Abstract</title>The nearby radio galaxy M87 offers a unique opportunity for exploring the connection between γ-ray production and jet formation at an unprecedented linear resolution. However, the origin and location of the γ-rays in this source is still elusive. Based on previous radio/TeV correlation events, the unresolved jet base (radio core) and the peculiar knot HST-1 at >120 pc from the nucleus are proposed as candidate site(s) of γ-ray production. Here we report our intensive, high-resolution radio monitoring observations of the M87 jet with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) and the European VLBI Network (EVN) from February 2011 to October 2012. During this period, an elevated level of the M87 flux is reported at TeV with VERITAS. We detected a remarkable flux increase in the radio core with VERA at 22/43 GHz coincident with the VHE activity. Meanwhile, HST-1 remained quiescent in terms of its flux density and structure at radio. These results strongly suggest that the TeV γ-ray activity in 2012 originates in the jet base within 0.03 pc (projected) from the central supermassive black hole.
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Proceedings of Science, 2014
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 9(304) 106-107, 2014
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 781(1), Jan, 2014
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 779(1), Oct 2, 2013
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106(10) 660-665, Sep 20, 2013
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 775(1), Aug 7, 2013
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May 15, 2013We conducted the first multi-frequency polarimetric imaging of four broad<br /> absorption line (BAL) quasars using Very Long Baseline Array at milli-arcsecond<br /> resolutions to investigate the inclination of the non-thermal jet and test the<br /> hypothesis that radio sources in BAL quasars are still young. Among these four<br /> sources, J0928+446, J1018+0530, and J1405+4056 show one-sided structures in<br /> parsec scales, and polarized emission detected in the core. These<br /> characteristics are consistent with those of blazars. We set constraints on<br /> viewing angles to $<$66 deg for these jets, in the framework of a Doppler<br /> beaming effect. J1159+0112 exhibits an unpolarized gigahertz peaked spectrum<br /> component and several discrete blobs with steep spectra on both sides of the<br /> central component across $\sim$1 kpc. These properties are consistent with<br /> those of young radio sources. We discuss the structures of jets and AGN wind.
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Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan, 68(1) 138-138, Mar 26, 2013
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 64(5) "109-1"-"109-8", Oct 25, 2012
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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 760(1), Oct 18, 2012
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 8(287) 288-289, Jul, 2012 Peer-reviewed
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 423(1), Apr 6, 2012
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Astrophysical Journal, 746(2), Dec 4, 2011
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Jun 15, 2011The nearby low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN) NGC 4258 has a weak<br /> radio continuum emission at the galactic center. Quasi-simultaneous<br /> multi-frequency observations using the Very Large Array (VLA) from 5 GHz (6 cm)<br /> to 22 GHz (1.3 cm) showed inverted spectra in all epochs, which were<br /> intra-month variable, as well as complicated spectral features that cannot be<br /> represented by a simple power law, indicating multiple blobs in nuclear jets.<br /> Using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA), we discovered a large amplitude<br /> variable emission at 100 GHz (3 mm), which had higher flux densities at most<br /> epochs than those of the VLA observations. A James Clerk Maxwell Telescope<br /> (JCMT) observation at 347 GHz (850 micron) served an upper limit of dust<br /> contamination. The inverted radio spectrum of the nucleus NGC 4258 is<br /> suggestive of an analogy to our Galactic center Sgr A*, but with three orders<br /> of magnitude higher radio luminosity. In addition to the LLAGN M 81, we discuss<br /> the nucleus of NGC 4258 as another up-scaled version of Sgr A*.
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IEICE technical report, 109(1) 1-5, Apr 2, 2009We developed off-set Cassegrain antenna optical system and 8GHz band receiver for the ASTRO-G/VSOP-2 satellite. That is second generation satellite for the Space VLBI project, which is combing radio telescopes on the earth and the satellite. There are 43,22,8GHz band feed horns at Cassegrain focus. Feed horn of this satellite must have low cross polarization characteristic and small size. Multimode horn satisfies this conditions and have advantage in fabrication, which is short axial length and have simple wall. We introduce the Cassegrain antenna optical system with multimode horn and the 8GHz band receiver.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 60(1) 23-35, Feb 25, 2008
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 3(242) 176-177, Mar, 2007 Peer-reviewed
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 3(242) 148-149, Mar, 2007 Peer-reviewedLead author
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Astrophys.J.648:148-157,2006, May 12, 2006We present a study of the kinematic and spectral ages of the Gigahertz-Peaked<br /> Spectrum (GPS) source CTD~93. Measurements of the hot spot separation over 8.5<br /> yr show evidence of an increase. The separation rate along the source axis is<br /> 0.34$\pm0.11c$ (H$_{0}$=72 km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$), which results in a<br /> kinematic age of 2200$\pm$700 yr. Assuming that two hot spots are moving apart<br /> at equal speeds, we derive an advance speed of 0.17$\pm0.06c$. The radio lobe<br /> spectra show a high frequency steepening, as expected if energetic electrons<br /> lose energy by synchrotron radiation. The spectral break decreases with the<br /> distance from the hot spot in the northern component of CTD~93. This tendency<br /> is expected from the basic scenario of radio lobe evolution involving particle<br /> acceleration at the hot spots, with the radio lobes populated by high energy<br /> electrons which have leaked from the hot spots. Although a core-jet morphology<br /> for CTD~93 has previously been proposed, these results indicate that the<br /> morphology is similar to that of Compact Symmetric Object (CSO). From the<br /> spectral fits in the northern component we found a break frequency of 3.7 GHz<br /> at the edge of the lobe. The resultant spectral age is $\sim$300 yr assuming<br /> the equipartition magnetic field. This requires the advance speed of 0.26$c$,<br /> which shows a good agreement of the hot spot motion of 0.17$\pm0.06c$. Our<br /> results strongly support the hypothesis that CSOs are young radio sources.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 60 1069-1075We present the proper motions of H2O masers in NML Cygni, observed with the Japanese VLBI Network at three epochs spanning 455 d. We detected about 15 maser features at each epoch. Overall, 13 features that were detected at least twice were tracked by their radial velocities and proper motions. The three-dimensional kinematics of the maser features indicate the presence of an expanding outflow. The major axis of the outflow is estimated to be at a position angle of ∼ 108°, and an inclination angle of ∼ 8° with respect to the line of sight. The H2O masers are located between an apparent minimum radius of ∼ 9.6 × 1012 m (64 AU) and a maximum radius of ∼ 3.0 × 1013 m (202AU), where the expansion velocity increases from 12 to 27 km s-1. A comparison with the distributions of SiO, H2O, and OH masers suggests that the outflow of NML Cygni is expanding outside a radius of ∼ 1.5 × 10 13 m (100 AU). This radius corresponds to 6 stellar radii, and is consistent with the radius of the inner boundary for the dust shell. © 2008. Astronomical Society of Japan.
Presentations
29Research Projects
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2028
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023
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科学研究費(基盤研究(B)), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020
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研究助成金, カシオ科学振興財団, Oct, 2016 - Nov, 2017
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Observational study of jet-formation regions in supermassive black holes with a novel VLBI techniqueGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2017