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[Radio Record] Talk on black holes at "Morita & Isaka's Tenkibeya"
Shinya Yamada attended a radio program, Morita & Isaka's Tenkibeya, with his latest news, press release on black hole.
The open house 2013 of RIKEN Wako campus
The open house 2013 of RIKEN Wako campus was held on April 20th. Our laboratory exhibited posters about black holes and "black hole camera". Visitors enjoyed "feeling" the strong gravity around a black hole through the "black hole camera". More than 1000 visitors came to our laboratory's exhibition.
[Press Release] Understanding the last 1/100 seconds before falling into a black hole
Shinya Yamada has found that an accreting gas falling into a black hole is heated instantly within 1/100 seconds, by applying a shot analysis technique into the Suzaku HXD data taken from a famous black hole binary Cygnus X-1. Further improvements on this study is expected from the next to Suzaku satellite, ASTRO-H, and the first X-ray polarimetry […]
Newcomers FY2013
Dr. Kumi Ishikawa (RIKEN Special Postdoctral Fellow) , Dr. Goro Sato (RIKEN Postdoctral Fellow) , Dr. Wataru Iwakiri (JSPS PD) , Mr. Kenta Kaneko (TUS D1) , Ms. Megu Kubota (TUS B4) and Mr. Shigeru Endo (TUS B4) have joined our group from April 1, 2013.
Call for applications for FY2014
High Energy Astrophysics Laboratory accepts Foreign Postdoctral Researcher. See detail in this page.
[Award] Dr. Katsuda received the 7th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan.
勝田さんが第７回日本物理学会若手奨励賞を受賞しました。この賞は、将来の物 理学を担う優秀な若手研究者の研究を奨励し、学会をより活性化するた めに、 日本物理学会が 2007 年に設けたものです。毎年一回、日本物理学会の各領域の 若手数名（学会全体で 50 名を上限）に授与されます。勝田さんは、X線天文衛 星「チャンドラ」及び「ニュートン」を用い、若い超新星残骸の運動学的研究に おいて先駆的成果を挙げま した。この業績に対して、宇宙線・宇宙物理領域 （実験部門）での受賞となりました。 詳細は、 http://www.jps.or.jp/activities/awards/wakate.html http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/JPSCR/index.htmlをご覧下さい。 Dr. Katsuda received the 7th Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan. To know the details, please check these pages: http://www.jps.or.jp/english/Awards.html http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/JPSCR/index.html On this page, english is not available.