Assistant Professor Onodera, Masato
Research Field
- Evolution of the stars and gas in galaxies, Extragalactic astronomy, Optical and infrared astronomy,
Brief Introduction of Research
- Star formation history of the Universe tells us that galaxy formation and evolution peaked about 10 billion years ago or redshift of 2. I am interested in this particular cosmic epoch to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies by investigating the star formation rates, metal contents, and stellar populations. To carry out the research, I use large optical and infrared telescopes such as Subaru Telescope and Keck Telescope. Recently, I am also working on nearby disk galaxies observed by a state- of-the-art integral field spectrograph on VLT to understand physics taking place in a 100 pc scale of galactic disks and bulges.
Main Research Achievements
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Onodera et al. 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 822, 42, "ISM Excitation and Metallicity of Star-forming Galaxies at z ≃ 3.3 from Near-IR Spectroscopy"
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Onodera et al. 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 161, "The Ages, Metallicities, and Element Abundance Ratios of Massive Quenched Galaxies at z ≃ 1.6"
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Onodera et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 715, L6, "A z = 1.82 Analog of Local Ultra-massive Elliptical Galaxies"
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Onodera et al. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal, "A Wide Area Survey for High-Redshift Massive Galaxies. II. Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of BzK-Selected Massive Star-Forming Galaxies"
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Gobat et al. 2011, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 526, 133, "A mature cluster with X-ray emission at z = 2.07"
Contact us
- monodera[at]naoj.org
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- Publication List on NASA/ADS: http://goo.gl/gpt7OU
