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Assistant Professor    Tanaka, Masaomi

Research Field

  • Astrophysics, Theoretical Astronomy, Optical and Infrared Astronomy

Brief Introduction of Research

  • I’m working on cosmic explosions and transients, such as supernovae and gravitational wave sources, by numerical simulations and observations.

Main Research Achievements

  • "Rapidly Rising Transients from Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Transient Survey" Tanaka, M., et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 819, 5 (15pp)
  • "Radioactively Powered Emission from Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers" Tanaka, M., et al. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal, 780, 31 (9pp)
  • "Radiative Transfer Simulations of Neutron Star Merger Ejecta" Tanaka, M. & Hotokezaka, K. 2013, The Astrophysical Journal, 775, 113 (16pp)
  • "Spectropolarimetry of Extremely Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2009dc: Nearly Spherical Explosion of Super-Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf" Tanaka, M., et al. 2010, ApJ, 714, 1209
  • "Type Ib Supernova 2008D Associated With the Luminous X-Ray Transient 080109: An Energetic Explosion of a Massive Helium Star" Tanaka, M., et al. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1131
  • "Multidimensional Simulations for Early-Phase Spectra of Aspherical Hypernovae: SN 1998bw and Off-Axis Hypernovae" Tanaka, M., et al. 2007, ApJ, 668, L19

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