研究者業績
基本情報
- 所属
- 国立研究開発法人宇宙航空研究開発機構 宇宙科学研究所 助教総合研究大学院大学 宇宙観測科学講座 飛翔体天文学分野 助教
- 学位
- 博士(理学)(1998年3月 京都大学)修士(理学)(1995年3月 京都大学)
- 研究者番号
- 80342624
- ORCID ID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9099-5755- J-GLOBAL ID
- 202001011170717781
- researchmap会員ID
- R000011919
経歴
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2026年4月 - 現在
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2007年4月 - 2026年3月
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2003年10月 - 2007年3月
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2001年7月 - 2003年9月
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2001年4月 - 2001年6月
学歴
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1995年4月 - 1998年3月
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1993年4月 - 1995年4月
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1989年4月 - 1993年3月
論文
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The Astrophysical Journal 998(2) 210 2026年2月 査読有り
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Nature 650(8101) 309-313 2026年2月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 78(1) 97-110 2026年2月 査読有りAbstract A high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic observation was made of the RS CVn-type binary star HR 1099 using the Resolve instrument onboard XRISM for its calibration purposes. During the $\sim$400 ks telescope time covering 1.5 binary orbit, a flare lasting for $\sim$100 ks was observed with a released X-ray radiation energy of ${\sim }10^{34}$ erg, making it the first stellar flare ever observed with an X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer. The flare peak count rate is 6.4 times higher than that in quiescence and is distinguished clearly in time thanks to the long telescope time. Many emission lines were detected in the 1.7–10 keV range both in the flare and quiescent phases. Using the high spectral resolution of Resolve in the Fe K band (6.5–7.0 keV), we resolved the inner-shell lines of Fe xix–xxiv as well as the outer-shell lines of Fe xxv–xxvi. These lines have peaks in the contribution functions at different temperatures over a wide range, allowing us to construct the differential emission measure (DEM) distribution over the electron temperature of 1–10 keV (roughly 10–100 MK) based only on Fe lines, thus without an assumption of the elemental abundance. The reconstructed DEM has a bimodal distribution, and only the hotter component increased during the flare. The elemental abundance was derived based on the DEM distribution thus constructed. A significant abundance increase was observed during the flare for Ca and Fe, which are some of the elements with the lowest first ionization potential among those analyzed, but not for Si, S, and Ar. This behavior is seen in some giant solar flares and the present result is a clear example in stellar flares.
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Nature Astronomy 10 144-153 2026年1月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77(6) 1278-1289 2025年12月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 994(1) L28 2025年11月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 993(1) L11 2025年11月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journal 994(1) 37-37 2025年11月 査読有りAbstract The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly 6 day long-duration balloon flight from Sweden to Canada in 2024 July. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the polarization degree (PD) and polarization angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a ∼19–64 keV PD of ( )% (equivalent to an upper limit, at the 99% level, of 11.1%) at a PA of −28° ± 17°, with an 8.7% chance probability of detecting larger PDs than the one observed, given an unpolarized signal. The XL-Calibur results are thus comparable to the 2–8 keV PD and PA found by Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), with a similar agreement between the hard X-ray PA and the radio jet direction. We also discuss the implications of our polarization measurements in the context of models describing the origin of the broadband X-ray and γ -ray emission, to which XL-Calibur provides independent constraints on any proposed emission modeling.
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 044002 2025年10月 査読有り
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Nature 646(8083) 57-61 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042026 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042023 2025年10月 査読有り
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 702 A147 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042003 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042020 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042008 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11(04) 042025 2025年10月 査読有り
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11(04) 042014 2025年10月 査読有り筆頭著者責任著者
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Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 11 042016-56 2025年10月 査読有り
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UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIV 51-51 2025年9月18日
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Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy XII 19-19 2025年9月18日
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77 S242-S253 2025年9月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77 S193-S208 2025年9月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77 S50-S62 2025年9月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77 S23-S38 2025年9月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77 S1-S9 2025年9月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 988(2) L58 2025年8月 査読有り
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Journal of Instrumentation 20(6) C06044 2025年6月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77(Supplement_1) psaf063-S106 2025年6月 査読有りAbstract The Galactic Center region was observed with the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of $(\alpha , \delta )_{\rm J2000.0}=({17^{\rm h}46^{\rm m}10{_{.}^{\rm s } }8}, {-29^{\circ}00^{\prime }21^{\prime \prime } })$, which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2–10 keV X-ray luminosity was ${\sim }10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$ for the assumed distance of 8 kpc. However, after six months, it was below the detection limit. We found a hint of periodicity of 1537 s from timing analysis. The XRISM/Xtend spectrum has emission lines from helium-like iron (Fe xxv–He$\alpha$) at 6.7 keV and hydrogen-like iron (Fe xxvi–Ly$\alpha$) at 6.97 keV; their intensity ratio is unusual with the latter being four times stronger than the former. If the emission is of thermal origin, the ionization temperature estimated from the iron-line intensity ratio is $\sim$30 keV, which is inconsistent with the electron temperature estimated from the thermal bremsstrahlung, $\sim$7 keV. Spectral models of magnetic cataclysmic variables, which are often seen in the Galactic Center in this luminosity range, are found to fail to reproduce the obtained spectrum. By contrast, we found that the spectrum is well reproduced with the models of low-mass X-ray binaries containing a neutron star plus two narrow Gaussian lines. We consider that the source is intrinsically bright reaching $10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$, but is blocked from direct view due to a high inclination and only the scattered emission is visible. The photo-ionized plasma above the accretion disk with an ionization parameter of ${\sim }10^{5}$ may explain the unusual iron line ratio. We further discuss the potential contribution of point sources of the type of XRISM J174610.8-290021 to the diffuse Galactic Center X-ray emission.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 540(1) L34-L40 2025年6月 査読有りABSTRACT We report measurements of the linear polarization degree (PD) and angle (PA) for hard X-ray emission from the Crab pulsar and wind nebula. Measurements were made with the XL-Calibur ($\sim$15–80 keV) balloon-borne Compton-scattering polarimeter in July 2024. The polarization parameters are determined using a Bayesian analysis of Stokes parameters obtained from X-ray scattering angles. Well-constrained ($\sim 8.5\sigma$) results are obtained for the polarization of the $\sim$19–64 keV signal integrated over all pulsar phases: PD = (25.1$\pm$2.9) per cent and PA = (129.8$\pm 3.2)^\circ$. In the off-pulse (nebula-dominated) phase range, the PD is constrained at $\sim 4.5\sigma$ and is compatible with the phase-integrated result. The PA of the nebular hard X-ray emission aligns with that measured by IXPE in the 2–8 keV band for the toroidal inner region of the pulsar wind nebula, where the hard X-rays predominantly originate. For the main pulsar peak, PD = (32.8$^{+18.2}_{-28.5}$) per cent and PA = (156.0 $\pm$ 21.7)$^\circ$, while for the second peak (inter-pulse), PD = (0.0$^{+33.6}_{-0.0}$) per cent and PA = (154.5 $\pm$ 34.5)$^\circ$. A low level of polarization in the pulsar peaks likely does not favour emission originating from the inner regions of the pulsar magnetosphere. Discriminating between Crab pulsar emission models will require deeper observations, e.g. with a satellite-borne hard X-ray polarimeter.
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Nature 641(8065) 1132-1136 2025年5月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 985(1) L20 2025年5月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 982(1) L5 2025年3月 査読有り
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Nature 638(8050) 365-369 2025年2月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 77(1) L1-L8 2025年2月 査読有りAbstract Sagittarius 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$^{*}$. 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 $1.39 \pm 0.12$, 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 $\gt\! 4\:$keV. The recombination timescale was constrained to be $\lt\! 8 \times 10^{11} \:$cm$^{-3}\:$s. The small velocity dispersion of $109 \pm 6\:$km$\:$s$^{-1}$ indicates a low Fe ion temperature $\lt\! 8\:$keV and a small expansion velocity $\lt\! 200\:$km$\:$s$^{-1}$. 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$^{*}$ in the past may have triggered the overionization.
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The Astrophysical Journall 977(2) L34-L34 2024年12月 査読有りAbstract The 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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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 76(6) 1186-1201 2024年12月 査読有りAbstract We 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 $\sigma _v \sim 450$ km s$^{-1}$. However, the Fe He$\alpha$ lines are substantially broadened with $\sigma _v \sim 1670$ km s$^{-1}$. 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$\alpha$ 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 $-1000 \lesssim V_{\rm rs}$ (km s$^{-1}$) $\lesssim 3300$ (in the observer frame). We also find that Fe Ly$\alpha$ emission is redshifted with a bulk velocity of $\sim 890$ km s$^{-1}$, 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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Nature Communications 15(1) 7528 2024年9月 査読有り
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The Astrophysical Journall 973(1) L25-L25 2024年9月 査読有りAbstract We present an analysis of the first two XRISM/Resolve spectra of the well-known Seyfert-1.5 active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 4151, obtained in 2023 December. Our work focuses on the nature of the narrow Fe K α emission line at 6.4 keV, the strongest and most common X-ray line observed in AGN. The total line is found to consist of three components. Even the narrowest component of the line is resolved with evident Fe K α,1 (6.404 keV) and K α,2 (6.391 keV) contributions in a 2:1 flux ratio, fully consistent with neutral gas with negligible bulk velocity. Subject to the limitations of our models, the narrowest and intermediate-width components are consistent with emission from optically thin gas, suggesting that they arise in a disk atmosphere and/or wind. Modeling the three line components in terms of Keplerian broadening, they are readily associated with (1) the inner wall of the “torus,” (2) the innermost optical “broad-line region” (or “X-ray BLR”), and (3) a region with a radius of r ≃ 100 GM/c 2 that may signal a warp in the accretion disk. Viable alternative explanations of the broadest component include a fast-wind component and/or scattering; however, we find evidence of variability in the narrow Fe K α line complex on timescales consistent with small radii. The best-fit models are statistically superior to simple Voigt functions, but when fit with Voigt profiles the time-averaged lines are consistent with a projected velocity broadening of FWHM . Overall, the resolution and sensitivity of XRISM show that the narrow Fe K line in AGN is an effective probe of all key parts of the accretion flow, as it is currently understood. We discuss the implications of these findings for our understanding of AGN accretion, future studies with XRISM, and X-ray-based black hole mass measurements.
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 55-55 2024年8月22日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 53-53 2024年8月22日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 75-75 2024年8月21日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 232-232 2024年8月21日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 58-58 2024年8月21日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 236-236 2024年8月21日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 224-224 2024年8月21日
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 59-59 2024年8月21日
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Astroparticle Physics 158 102944-102944 2024年6月 査読有り
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 76(2) 272-284 2024年4月 査読有りAbstract We develop a new deconvolution method to recover the precise Crab Nebula image taken by the Hitomi HXT, suppressing the artifact due to the bright Crab pulsar. We extend the Richardson–Lucy method, introducing two components corresponding to the nebula and pulsar with regularization for smoothness and flux, respectively, and performing simultaneous deconvolution of multi-pulse-phase images. The structures, including the torus and jets, seen in the deconvolved nebula image at the lowest energy band of 3.6–15 keV appear consistent with those identified in the high-resolution Chandra X-ray image. Above 15 keV, we confirm NuSTAR’s findings that the nebula size decreases in higher energy bands. We find that the north-east side of the nebula is fainter in higher energy bands. Our deconvolution method is applicable for any telescope images of faint diffuse objects containing a bright point source.
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SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2024: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, PT 1 13093 2024年
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44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly 2022年
担当経験のある科目(授業)
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2025年9月 - 2026年3月宇宙理学概論(オムニパス) (総合研究大学院大学)
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2023年9月 - 2024年3月
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2021年4月 - 2022年3月宇宙理学概論(オムニパス) (総合研究大学院大学)
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2019年10月 - 2020年3月宇宙理学概論(オムニパス) (総合研究大学院大学)
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2009年10月 - 2010年3月応用物理学講義 (中央大学)
共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題
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日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 2023年4月 - 2027年3月
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日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 2022年4月 - 2025年3月
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日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(B) 2022年4月 - 2025年3月
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日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(A) 2020年4月 - 2023年3月
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日本学術振興会 科学研究費助成事業 挑戦的研究(萌芽) 2019年6月 - 2022年3月
