ASTRO-H
Successful Launch of ASTRO-H (2016/2/17)
ASTRO-H was launched from JAXA's Tanegashima Space Center by H-IIA #30 on February 17, 2016. The satellite was successfully launched and named "Hitomi." (c) W. B. Iwakiri
Launch of X-ray Astronomical Satellite ASTRO-H (2016/1/26)
The 6th Japanese X-ray astronomical satellite ASTRO-H will be launched on February 12, 2016 from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center (TNSC) by the H-IIA launch vehicle F-30. ASTRO-H is constructed by all the Japanese institutes related to the X-ray astrophysics including RIKEN in collaboration with US and Europe. The total mass of the satellite is 2.7 […]
[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 […]
[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.
Japanese astronomical/physical conference
Most of members in Tamagawa group attended either Japanese Astronomical or Physical conference. We presented latest experimental results on GEM, and the scientific outputs obtained from supernova remnants, galaxies, and black holes.