Curriculum Vitaes
Profile Information
- Affiliation
- Assistant professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Degree
- 博士(理学)(Mar, 2003, 京都大学)修士(理学)(Mar, 2000, 京都大学)
- Contact information
- tsujimoto.masahiro
jaxa.jp - Researcher number
- 10528178
- ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9184-5556- J-GLOBAL ID
- 201801010256574610
- Researcher ID
- ABC-6667-2020
- researchmap Member ID
- B000296937
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Research Interests
6Research Areas
2Research History
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Jan, 2007 - Jul, 2009
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Apr, 2005 - Dec, 2006
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Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2005
Education
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Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2003
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Apr, 1998 - Mar, 2000
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Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1998
Committee Memberships
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Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2023
Papers
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Nov 25, 2025
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Sep 30, 2025
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Sep 30, 2025
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Sep 30, 2025
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Apr, 2025The RS CVn type binary star GT Mus was observed during its quiescence using the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard XRISM. The main and satellite lines of the Fe XXIV--XXVI K-shell transitions were resolved for the first time from stellar sources. We conducted line ratio analysis to investigate any deviations from collisional onization equilibrium (CIE) and Maxwell electron energy distribution with a single-temperature. By using five combinations of direct excitation lines and dielectronic recombination satellite lines in three line complexes (Fe He$α$, Ly$α$, and He$β$), we found that the plasma is well characterized by two-temperature thermal plasmas with temperatures of 1.7 and 4.3 keV, which is consistent with a thermal broadening of Fe XXV and the broadband fitting results in the 1.7--10 keV band. Other forms of deviation from a single-temperature plasma, such as different ionization and electron temperatures or the $κ$ distribution for the electron energy distributions, are not favored, which is reasonable for stellar coronae at quiescence. This study demonstrates the utility of the Fe K-shell line ratio diagnostics to probe plasma conditions using X-ray microcalorimeters....
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Mar, 2025High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy is a key to understanding the mass inflow and outflow of compact objects. Spectral lines carry information about the ionization, density, and velocity structures through their intensity ratios and profiles. They are formed in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions under the intense radiation field from the compact objects, thus radiative transfer (RT) calculation is a requisite for proper interpretations. We present such a study for a low-mass X-ray binary, Circinus X-1, from which the P Cygni profile was discovered using the X-ray grating spectrometer onboard Chandra. We observed the source using the X-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISM at an orbital phase of 0.93-0.97 and revealed many spectral features unidentified before; the higher series transitions (n to 1; n > 2) of highly-ionized (H- and He-like) S, Ca, Ar, and Fe in emission and absorption, the Fe K{\alpha} and K\b{eta} inner-shell excitation absorption of mildly-ionized (O- to Li-like) Fe, and resolved fine-structure level transitions in the Fe Ly{\alpha} and He{\alpha} complexes. They blend with each other at different velocity shifts on top of apparently variable continuum emission that changed its flux by an order of magnitude within a 70 ks telescope time. Despite such complexity in the observed spectra, most of them can be explained by a simple model consisting of the photoionized plasma outflowing at ~300 km s-1 and the variable blocking material in the line of sight of the incident continuum emission from the accretion disk. We demonstrate this with the aid of the RT code cloudy for the line ratio diagnostics and spectral fitting. We further constrain the physical parameters of the outflow and argue that the outflow is launched close to the outer edge of the accretion disk and can be driven radiatively by being assisted by the line force calculated using the RT simulation....
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The Astrophysical Journal, Mar, 2025We present XRISM Resolve observations of the core of the hot, relaxed galaxy cluster Abell 2029 (A2029). We find that the line-of-sight bulk velocity of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the central 180 kpc is at rest with respect to the brightest cluster galaxy, with a 3σ upper limit of ∣vbulk∣ < 100 km s‑1. We robustly measure the field-integrated ICM velocity dispersion to be σv = 169 ± 10 km s‑1, obtaining similar results for both single-temperature and two-temperature plasma models to account for the cluster cool core. This result, if ascribed to isotropic turbulence, implies a subsonic ICM with Mach number <inline-formula> </inline-formula> and a nonthermal pressure fraction of 2.6 ± 0.3%. The turbulent velocity is similar to what was measured in the core of the Perseus cluster by Hitomi, but here in a more massive cluster with an ICM temperature of 7 keV, the limit on the nonthermal pressure fraction is even more stringent. Our result is consistent with expectations from simulations of relaxed clusters, but it is on the low end of the predicted distribution, indicating that A2029 is an exceptionally relaxed cluster with no significant impacts from either a recent minor merger or active galactic nucleus activity....
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Feb, 2025Sagittarius A East is a supernova remnant with a unique surrounding environment, as it is located in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center, Sagittarius A<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0001" notation="LaTeX">$^{*}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The X-ray emission of the remnant is suspected to show features of overionized plasma, which would require peculiar evolutionary paths. We report on the first observation of Sagittarius A East with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM). Equipped with a combination of a high-resolution microcalorimeter spectrometer and a large field-of-view CCD imager, we for the first time resolved the Fe XXV K-shell lines into fine structure lines and measured the forbidden-to-resonance intensity ratio to be <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0002" notation="LaTeX">$1.39 \pm 0.12$</tex-math></inline-formula>, which strongly suggests the presence of overionized plasma. We obtained a reliable constraint on the ionization temperature just before the transition into the overionization state, of <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0003" notation="LaTeX">$\gt\! 4\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>keV. The recombination timescale was constrained to be <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0004" notation="LaTeX">$\lt\! 8 \times 10^{11} \:$</tex-math></inline-formula>cm<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0005" notation="LaTeX">$^{-3}\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>s. The small velocity dispersion of <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0006" notation="LaTeX">$109 \pm 6\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>km<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0007" notation="LaTeX">$\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0008" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula> indicates a low Fe ion temperature <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0009" notation="LaTeX">$\lt\! 8\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>keV and a small expansion velocity <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0010" notation="LaTeX">$\lt\! 200\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>km<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0011" notation="LaTeX">$\:$</tex-math></inline-formula>s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0012" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. The high initial ionization temperature and small recombination timescale suggest that either rapid cooling of the plasma via adiabatic expansion from dense circumstellar material or intense photoionization by Sagittarius A<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0013" notation="LaTeX">$^{*}$</tex-math></inline-formula> in the past may have triggered the overionization....
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Nature, Feb, 2025Galaxy clusters contain vast amounts of hot ionized gas known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In relaxed cluster cores, the radiative cooling time of the ICM is shorter than the age of the cluster. However, the absence of line emission associated with cooling suggests heating mechanisms that offset the cooling, with feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) being the most likely source1,2. Turbulence and bulk motions, such as the oscillating ('sloshing') motion of the core gas in the cluster potential well, have also been proposed as mechanisms for heat distribution from the outside of the core3,4. Here we present X-ray spectroscopic observations of the Centaurus galaxy cluster with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission satellite. We find that the hot gas flows along the line of sight relative to the central galaxy, with velocities from 130 km s‑1 to 310 km s‑1 within about 30 kpc of the centre. This indicates bulk flow consistent with core gas sloshing. Although the bulk flow may prevent excessive accumulation of cooled gas at the centre, it could distribute the heat injected by the AGN and bring in thermal energy from the surrounding ICM. The velocity dispersion of the gas is found to be only ≲120 km s‑1 in the core, even within about 10 kpc of the AGN. This suggests that the influence of the AGN on the surrounding ICM motion is limited in the cluster....
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Astronomy & Astrophysics, Feb, 2025
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dec 10, 2024
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The Astrophysical Journal, Dec, 2024The X-ray binary system Cygnus X-3 (4U 2030+40, V1521 Cyg) is luminous but enigmatic owing to the high intervening absorption. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy uniquely probes the dynamics of the photoionized gas in the system. In this Letter, we report on an observation of Cyg X-3 with the XRISM/Resolve spectrometer, which provides unprecedented spectral resolution and sensitivity in the 2–10 keV band. We detect multiple kinematic and ionization components in absorption and emission whose superposition leads to complex line profiles, including strong P Cygni profiles on resonance lines. The prominent Fe XXV Heα and Fe XXVI Lyα emission complexes are clearly resolved into their characteristic fine-structure transitions. Self-consistent photoionization modeling allows us to disentangle the absorption and emission components and measure the Doppler velocity of these components as a function of binary orbital phase. We find a significantly higher velocity amplitude for the emission lines than for the absorption lines. The absorption lines generally appear blueshifted by ∼‑500–600 km s‑1. We show that the wind decomposes naturally into a relatively smooth and large-scale component, perhaps associated with the background wind itself, plus a turbulent, denser structure located close to the compact object in its orbit....
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Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, Dec, 2024The X-ray Imaging and Spectrometer Mission (XRISM) was put into orbit successfully in September 2023. Resolve, one of the scientific instruments onboard XRISM, hosts an X-ray spectrometer based on X-ray microcalorimetery technology. It excels in high spectral resolution, a large throughput, a large bandpass, low background, and good timing accuracy. These properties are suited to bring new insights especially in high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXB). We describe these unique features of Resolve and present initial highlights of two HMXB sources....
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Dec, 2024We present an initial analysis of the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) first-light observation of the supernova remnant (SNR) N 132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Resolve microcalorimeter has obtained the first high-resolution spectrum in the 1.6-10 keV band, which contains K-shell emission lines of Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe. We find that the Si and S lines are relatively narrow, with a broadening represented by a Gaussian-like velocity dispersion of <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0001" notation="LaTeX">$\sigma _v \sim 450$</tex-math></inline-formula> km s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0002" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. However, the Fe He<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0003" notation="LaTeX">$\alpha$</tex-math></inline-formula> lines are substantially broadened with <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0004" notation="LaTeX">$\sigma _v \sim 1670$</tex-math></inline-formula> km s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0005" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. This broadening can be explained by a combination of the thermal Doppler effect due to the high ion temperature and the kinematic Doppler effect due to the SNR expansion. Assuming that the Fe He<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0006" notation="LaTeX">$\alpha$</tex-math></inline-formula> emission originates predominantly from the supernova ejecta, we estimate the reverse shock velocity at the time when the bulk of the Fe ejecta were shock heated to be <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0007" notation="LaTeX">$-1000 \lesssim V_{\rm rs}$</tex-math></inline-formula> (km s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0008" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0009" notation="LaTeX">$\lesssim 3300$</tex-math></inline-formula> (in the observer frame). We also find that Fe Ly<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0010" notation="LaTeX">$\alpha$</tex-math></inline-formula> emission is redshifted with a bulk velocity of <inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0011" notation="LaTeX">$\sim 890$</tex-math></inline-formula> km s<inline-formula><tex-math id="TM0012" notation="LaTeX">$^{-1}$</tex-math></inline-formula>, substantially larger than the radial velocity of the local interstellar medium surrounding N 132D. These results demonstrate that high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy is capable of providing constraints on the evolutionary stage, geometry, and velocity distribution of SNRs....
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 53-53, Aug 22, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 55-55, Aug 22, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 56-56, Aug 21, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 58-58, Aug 21, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 62-62, Aug 21, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 225-225, Aug 21, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 233-233, Aug 21, 2024
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 234-234, Aug 21, 2024
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Jul 1, 2024
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The Astrophysical Journal, 965(2) 135-135, Apr 1, 2024 Peer-reviewedAbstract We detected a giant X-ray flare from the RS CVn–type binary star UX Ari using the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image on 2020 August 17 and started a series of Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer observations 89 minutes later. For a week, the entire duration of the flare was covered with 32 snapshot observations including the rising phase. The X-ray luminosity reached 2 × 1033 erg s−1, and the entire energy release was ∼1038 erg in the 0.5–8.0 keV band. X-ray spectra characterized by continuum emission with lines of Fe xxv Heα and Fe xxvi Lyα were obtained. We found that the temperature peaks before the flux does, which suggests that the period of plasma formation in the magnetic flare loop was captured. Using the continuum information (temperature, flux, and their delay time), we estimated the flare loop size to be ∼3 × 1011 cm and the peak electron density to be ∼4 × 1010 cm−3. Furthermore, using the line ratio of Fe xxv and Fe xxvi, we investigated any potential indications of deviation from collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE). The X-ray spectra were consistent with CIE plasma throughout the flare, but the possibility of an ionizing plasma away from CIE was not rejected in the flux rising phase.
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Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2024
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Astrophysical Journal, 960(1), Jan 1, 2024
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Astrophysical Journal, 958(1), Nov 1, 2023
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Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 211(5-6) 426-433, Jun, 2023
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Astrophysical Journal, 945(2), Mar 1, 2023
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 75(1) 177-186, Feb, 2023
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Ground test results of the electromagnetic interference for the x-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISMJournal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9(1) 18004, Jan 1, 2023
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9(1) 14003, Jan 1, 2023
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Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 209(5-6) 1097-1103, Dec, 2022
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Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2023(4), Nov 21, 2022
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Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 209(3-4) 396-408, Nov, 2022
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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, Nov, 2022
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JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS, 209(3-4) 686-692, Nov, 2022
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VizieR Online Data Catalog, Sep, 2022A deep JHKs imaging observation of the Chandra bulge field (CBF) was carried out using MOIRCS on the Subaru telescope. MOIRCS is equipped with two 2048x2048 HgCdTe HAWAII-2 arrays and covers a 4x7-arcmin2 field of view with a pixel scale of 0.117"/pixel in the imaging mode. <P />We look for candidate NIR counterparts to the Chandra X-ray sources. <P />(1 data file)....
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 12181, Aug 31, 2022
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Ground test results of the micro-vibration interference for the x-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISMProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12181, 2022
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X-RAY, OPTICAL, AND INFRARED DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY X, 12191, 2022
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, 12181, 2022
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, 12181, 2022
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, 12181, 2022
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Ground test results of the electromagnetic interference for the x-ray microcalorimeter onboard XRISMSPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, 12181, 2022
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2022: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND MILLIMETER WAVE, 12180, 2022
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宇宙科学技術連合講演会講演集(CD-ROM), 64th, 2020
Professional Memberships
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科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2022
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2018
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Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Jun, 2012 - Mar, 2017