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Takao and Fumi Stay at NASA/GSFC
Dr. Takao Kitaguchi and Ms. Fumi Asami are staying at NASA Goddard Space Flight Cenber to join the GEMS satellite project until the end of Feb. Takao is constructing a simulator of polarimeter and will calibrate it with data. Fumi is working on the polarimeter development together with Asami who is a visiting scientist at […]
Konami attended The 11th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies
Konami attended an international conference, The 11th International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies (http://indico.cns.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=43), held at RIKEN during Nov. 14-17 2011, and gave an oral presentation. Konami and collaborators revealed metal abundances in hot plasma of galaxies with Suzaku.
Suzaku GSO paper have been accepted.
Yamada, who graduated from Makishima lab. in 2011, have compiled the Suzaku GSO paper working with the HXD team. The paper is available from Improvements in calibration of GSO scintillators in the Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector Yamada, Makishima et al. 2011 PASJ . In this paper, we succeeded in obtaining consistent results among in-orbit data, […]
GEM paper on space use has been accepted
Iwahashi, who is a D2 student, have succeeded in compiling a paper on radio-avtive tolerance of gas electron multiplier foils (GEM), is accepted by IEEE. The detail is shown in Heavy Ion and Proton Irradiation of Gas Electron Multipliers With Liquid Crystal Polymer Insulator: Evaluation Tests for Use in Space. The GEM is used for […]