Interview for RIKEN NEWS
Dr. Toru Tamagawa and Dr. Satoru Katsuda and Dr. Shin'ya Yamada are interviewed for RIKEN NEWS' August. To know the detail of interview or RIKEN NEWS, please click under link. http://www.riken.jp/pr/publications/news/2013/
[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.