2024.8.26-2024.9.1


August 28 Wed 14:30-15:30
ALMA-J Seminar
hybrid; Room 102 in ALMA Building and Zoom


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=============== August 28 Wed===============

Seminar: ALMA-J Seminar
Date and time: August 28th, 2024 (Wed.), 14:30-15:30 JST
Place: ALMA Building Room 102 / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker : BORIS S. KALITA (Joint-Kavli Astrophysics Fellow – Kavli-IPMU, Japan | KIAA, China)
Title : The formation and influence of star-forming clumps in high redshift galaxies

Clumps have been found to dominate star formation in gas-rich (z > 1) galaxies,
thereby driving their overall evolution. I will discuss recent results from a
collection of works on this topic, that utilize public data from the James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to understand
the role of clumps in galaxy evolution during the latter phase of the Cosmic
Noon (z = 1 – 2).

  1. Clumps can now be detected and studied across rest-frame UV to near-IR wavelengths.
    Therefore, we conduct a stellar-mass tracing morphological analysis of the host galaxies.
  2. We observe a clear evolution of galaxies from being clumpy to bulge-dominated,
    revealing how galaxy morphologies and their substructures evolve over cosmic time.
  3. We estimate a clump mass-size relation along with a stellar mass function,
    finding them to match the theoretical expectations for clumps forming due to
    instability-driven coherent collapse. Thus, we observationally verify the disk
    instability formation scenario even for the most massive of these structures.
  4. Our measurements (and predictions) are consistent with the properties of clumps
    in z > 1 lensed systems, bridging the long-standing gap between lensed and unlensed
    studies. Thus, we build a coherent picture of clump formation across various
    observational scales.
  5. We establish the clear coexistence of spiral arms and star-forming clumps,
    which is important for understanding the dynamical stability of the gaseous and
    stellar components of galaxies.

Organizers : Kshitiz Mallick, Yuichi Matsuda

2024.8.19-2024.8.25


August 21 Wed 14:30-15:30
ALMA-J Seminar
hybrid; Room 102 in ALMA Building and Zoom


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=============== August 21 Wed===============

Seminar: ALMA-J Seminar
Date and time: August 21st, 2024 (Wed.), 14:30-15:30 JST
Place: ALMA Building Room 102 / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Satoko Takahashi (NAOJ ALMA Project / SOKENDAI)
Title: An extremely Young Protostellar Core, MMS1/OMC-3: Episodic mass ejection history traced by the micro SiO jet.

High-angular resolution and high sensitivity achieved with ALMA enabled us to detect candidates of extremely young protostellar sources, which are not detected even at 70um while exhibit very compact / young molecular jet (~1000 au / ~100 yr). They are considered to be in a phase right after the protostar formation and show the first mass ejection history. In this talk, I present ~0.2 arcsec resolution observations of the CO (2–1) and SiO (5–4) lines made with the ALMA toward an extremely young intermediate-mass protostellar source, MMS 1 located in the Orion Molecular Cloud-3 region. We have successfully imaged a very compact CO molecular outflow (~2000 au) and a collimated SiO jet (< 1000 au). The maximum jet speed is estimated to be as high as 93 km/s. The SiO jet wiggles and displays a chain of knots. These are the first direct evidences that MMS 1 already hosts a protostar. The position-velocity (PV) diagram shows two distinct structures: (i) bow-shocks associated with the tips of the outflow, and (ii) a collimated jet, showing the jet velocities linearly increasing with the distance from the driving source. Comparisons between the observations and numerical simulations quantitatively share similarities such as multiple-mass ejection events within the jet and Hubble-like flow associated with each mass ejection event. Finally, our ALMA jet study was compared with a submillimeter flux variability study performed with JCMT/SCUBA2. While there is a weak flux decline seen in the 850um light curve obtained with JCMT/SCUBA2 toward MMS1, no dramatic flux change events are detected. This suggests that there has not been a clear burst event associated with the mass accretion onto the protostar within the last 8 years.

Organizers : Kshitiz Mallick, Yuichi Matsuda

2024.8.5-2024.8.11


August 7 Wed 14:30-15:30
ALMA-J Seminar
hybrid; Room 102 in ALMA Building and Zoom


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=============== August 7 Wed===============

Seminar: ALMA-J Seminar
Date and time: August 7th, 2024 (Wed.), 14:30-15:30 JST
Place: ALMA Building Room 102 / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Qi-Ning Hsu
Affiliation: National Tsing Hua University
Title: Submillimeter Extragalactic Background Light and Galaxy Number Counts

Abstract:
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the cumulative radiation from beyond
our Milky Way galaxy and is essential for understanding cosmic history. However,
the origin of the EBL at submillimeter wavelengths, particularly near the peak
of the cosmic infrared background, remains uncertain. To investigate this, we
conducted galaxy number counts to determine the origin of the 450 micron EBL
using SCUBA-2 observations in 10 massive galaxy cluster fields. The strong
gravitational lensing provided by these clusters allows us to construct
ultra-deep number counts, over ten times deeper than those obtained from blank
fields. By carefully accounting for possible systematics, we achieved significant
counts down to ~0.1 mJy. Comparing our measurements to those made by the COBE
satellite, we found that at the sub-mJy level, the 450 micron EBL is entirely
resolved. Thus, we present the first evidence that discrete sources, likely of
extragalactic origin, fully contribute to the 450 micron EBL, with about half
of it originating from sources with sub-mJy flux densities. In this talk, I will
introduce the submillimeter EBL, describe how we conduct galaxy number counts in
the submillimeter regime, and present my recent works.

Organizers : Kshitiz Mallick, Yuichi Matsuda

2024.6.24-2024.6.30


June 25 Tue 10:30-12:00
Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
hybrid; Seminar Room 310 in Main building (North) and Zoom


June 26 Wed 10:00-12:00
SOKENDAI Colloquium
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


June 26 Wed 14:30-15:30
ALMA-J seminar
hybrid; Room 102 in ALMA building and Zoom


June 26 Wed 15:30-16:30
NAOJ Science Colloquium
hybrid; Rinkoh Seminar Room and Zoom


June 28 Fri 15:30-16:30
NAOJ Seminar
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== June 25 Tue===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Sporadic
Date and time:25 June (Tue), 10:30-12:00
Place: Seminar Room 310 in Main building (North) and Zoom

Speaker:Dr. Gabrial Giono

Affiliation:Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Title: Plasma and planetary science instrumentation at the IWF: SMILE, Comet Interceptor, JUICE and BepiColombo

Abstract:
The Institut für Weltraumforschung (IWF) in Graz, Austria, has been developing space instruments for more than 50 years. In recent years, the institute has been contributing to a number of plasma and planetary missions. This talk will focus on four missions: (1) the ESA/CAS Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission, (2) the ESA Comet Interceptor mission, (3) the ESA JUICE mission, and (4) the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission.
An overview of the IWF instrumental contribution for each these four missions will be presented, respectively (1) the EBOX for the Soft X-ray imager, (2) the MANiaC mass spectrometer and DFP flux-gate magnetometers, (3) the MAGSCA scalar optical magnetometer and (4) the PICAM ion mass spectrometer. For each instrument, an in-depth explanation of their working principle will be provided.

Facilitator
-Name:Akiko Tei

Comment:Japanese (Slides will be in English)

=============== June 26 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Scheduled
Date and time:Jun 26 10:00-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker:Naoya Kitade
Affiliation:SOKENDAI 1st year (M1) (Supervisor:Akimasa Kataoka, Hideko Nomura, Yuka Fujii)
Title:Support for fragile porous dust in a gravitationally self-regulated disk around IM Lup (review of a paper by Ueda et al, 2024 2406.07427)

Speaker:Chiba Rhotaro
Affiliation:Not entered
Title:Not entered

Speaker:Shotaro Tada
Affiliation:SOKENDAI 5th year (D3) (Supervisor:Takayuki Kotani, Yutaka Hayano, Yosuke Minowa)
Title:Exploring Exoplanetary Atmosphere Asymmetries Through Transmission Spectroscopy: Application to JWST NIRSpec/G395H Data of WASP-39 b’s Transit

Facilitator
-Name:Yoshiaki Sato

Comment:Language: English

===============June 26 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: ALMA-J seminar
Date and time: 2024 June 26 (Wednesday), 14:30-15:30 JST
Place: Room 102 in ALMA building / Zoom (hybrid)
Speaker: Dirk. Petry (European Southern Observatory)

Title: Results from the ALMA internal development study on uv coverage assessment and scheduling

Abstract: This development study started in 2020 and has now submitted its final report to the review panel. In this talk I will present a “sneak preview” of the results which consist mostly of suggestions for adjustments to ALMA scheduling, QA0, and QA2 to achieve better uv coverage and image quality. I will also introduce our new uv coverage QA tool “assess_ms”.

Facilitator
-Name: Pei-Ying Hsieh

===============June 26 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2024 June 26 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30 JST
Place: the rinkoh seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Shigeo Kimura
Affiliation: Tohoku University
Title: Pursuing Sources of Cosmic High-energy Neutrinos
Abstract:
Cosmic high-energy neutrinos are expected to be a smoking-gun signature to identify the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. IceCube experiment reported detection of cosmic high-energy neutrinos in 2013, the origin of which became a new mystery in astrophysics. In order to identify the cosmic neutrino sources, multi-messenger observational and analysis technics are now rapidly developing. In this talk, I will review the progress of high-energy neutrino astrophysics, discuss high-energy neutrino emission model in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei, and introduce our effort to identify neutrino sources using optical observational data.

Facilitator
-Name: Ryotaro Chiba

Comment: English

===============June 28 Fri==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:June 28, 2024 15:30-16:30
Place:Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)

Speaker:Dr. Jose Luis Gómez
Affiliation:Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía

Title:Eyes on the Invisible: Charting New Horizons with the Event Horizon Telescope

Abstract:The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration has captured the first image of a black hole’s event horizon in the galaxy M87, and subsequently, in the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, SgrA. More recently, the collaboration has released the first follow-up image of M87, utilizing observations from April 2018. The EHT has also revolutionized our understanding of the relativistic jets commonly present in active galactic nuclei, revealing the processes governing the jet formation, collimation and acceleration with an unprecedented angular resolution. The upcoming next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) is poised to significantly upgrade the current system by adding new stations and introducing multi-frequency observational capabilities. These will notably improve the ngEHT’s angular resolution, dynamic range, and overall coverage. This expansion is crucial for enabling the ngEHT to create the first movies of black holes, a leap forward in understanding the processes of black hole accretion and the formation of relativistic jets. In addition, the ngEHT’s advanced features will be instrumental in exploring alternative theories to General Relativity and will expand our observational reach to include potentially a dozen new black holes. By adding an orbiting antenna, the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a potential NASA mission, will discover and measure the bright and narrow “photon ring” that is predicted to exist in images of black holes, and fully encodes the space-time metric.

Facilitator
-Name:Takashi Moriya

2024.6.10-2024.6.16


June 11 Tue 10:00-11:30
太陽系小天体セミナー (Solar System Minor Body Seminar)
Zoom


June 12 Wed 10:30-12:00
SOKENDAI Colloquium
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


June 12 Wed 15:30-16:30
NAOJ Science Colloquium
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


June 13 Thu 14:30-15:30
ALMA-J seminar
hybrid; Room 102 in ALMA Building and Zoom


June 14 Fri 13:30-14:30
ATCセミナー
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


June 14 Fri 15:30-16:30
NAOJ Seminar
hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


June 14 Fri 15:30-17:00
Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
hybrid; Insei Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== June 11 Tue===============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー (Solar System Minor Body Seminar)
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時: 6月 11日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:和田空大
所属: 東京大学
タイトル: 研究紹介

世話人の連絡先
-名前:渡部潤一

備考:zoomでの参加

=============== June 12 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Scheduled
Date and time:Jun 12 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker:Takumi Kakimoto
Affiliation:SOKENDAI 3rd year (D1) (Supervisor: Masayuki Tanaka, Daisuke Iono, Kiyoto Yabe)
Title:The role of the environment in quenching of massive galaxies at high redshifts

Speaker:Kazuki Watanabe
Affiliation:SOKENDAI 2nd year (M2) (Supervisor: Tai Oshima, Yoshinori Uzawa, Takafumi Kojima)
Title:Development of a sub-THz MKID Camera for Deep Space Observation

Facilitator
-Name:Yoshiaki Sato

Comment:Language: English

===============June 12 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2024 June 12 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30 JST
Place: the large seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Mehrnoosh Tahani
Affiliation: Stanford University
Title: Galactic Structure and Evolution: What 3D Magnetic Field Observations Are Revealing
Abstract:
Recent observations have significantly advanced our understanding of the three-dimensional (3D) structure and evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM). To fully comprehend ISM evolution, however, it is necessary to study interstellar magnetic fields, which play a pivotal role in the evolution of the galaxy and the formation of stars. Despite their importance, our understanding of magnetic fields in the ISM is limited due to significant challenges in observing them in 3D. In this talk, I will briefly discuss how we overcame the challenges in determining the 3D magnetic fields associated with giant molecular clouds. These 3D fields enabled us to propose step-by-step scenarios to explain the formation of these clouds, revealing previously undiscovered interstellar structure. Our approach involves a novel technique based on Faraday rotation measurements to detect the line- of-sight component of magnetic fields. We then integrate these line-of-sight measurements with plane-of-sky magnetic field observations to examine the 3D magnetic field morphology associated with the clouds. Finally, we employ Galactic magnetic field models to reconstruct the complete 3D magnetic field morphologies of these clouds, including their previously unknown direction. These 3D studies provide novel constraints on theories for the formation and evolution of star-forming clouds.

Facilitator
-Name: Nanase Harada

Comment: English

===============June 13 Thu==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: ALMA-J seminar
Date and time: 2024 June 13 (Thursday), 14:30-15:30 JST
Place: Room 102 in ALMA building / Zoom (hybrid)
Speaker: Nimesh Patel
Affiliation: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Title: Chemical Evolution from AGB stars to Planetary Nebulae: A spectral-line survey of the Egg Nebula (CRL 2688)
Abstract:
Carbon-rich stars on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) are major sources of gas and dust in the interstellar medium. AGB stars remain
in this stage for 1 to 10 Myrs, and have typical masses of 1–8 Msun and mass loss rates of 10^(−7) to 10^(−4) Msun/yr. During the
brief (∼1000 yr) period in the evolution from the AGB to Planetary Nebula (PN) there is a dramatic change in the morphology from nearly
spherical symmetry to bipolar, quadrupolar and more complex structures.
Because of the brief duration of this Proto-Planetary Nebula (PPN) phase and the poor angular resolution of most prior molecular line
observations (>= 15″– 20″), the physical mechanisms governing the AGB -> PPN -> PN transition and the accompanying chemical processes
are poorly understood.

Using the Submillimeter Array (SMA), we have previously carried out spectral-line surveys of CRL 618, NGC 7027, and IRC+10216. In this
talk, I will present preliminary results from a spectral-line survey of CRL2688 (Egg Nebula), which is a well known PPN with multiple
outflows and shell-like structures discovered in HST images.
Together, these unbiased surveys of the 4 prototypical carbon rich objects which span the evolutionary sequence from the AGB to fully
formed planetary nebula — IRC+10216 (AGB), CRL 2688 (early PPN), CRL 618 (PPN) and NGC 7027 (PN) — have the potential of unravelling
the physical and chemical evolution of circumstellar envelopes from AGB to PN.

The SMA line survey of CRL 2688 covers the frequency range of 224–266 GHz, with an rms noise level of 100~150 mJy/beam in 1 km/s
wide channels. About 130 lines are detected in the 42 GHz coverage; all the detected lines have been identified. Lines of silicon
bearing species such as SiCC and SiS are much weaker (compared to those seen in IRC+10216). Several lines show morphological features
corresponding to the multiple outflows in this source (HCN, CS), and the disk like structure (CH3CN,SiS). The channel maps show an
S-shaped morphology for the bipolar lobes in CS and HCN, clear indication of a precessing/wobbling jet or two jets with different
axes. It is interesting to see Si bearing molecules, and weak lines of c-C3H2 in CRL 2688, whereas this molecule is one of the most
abundant in CRL 618 (with more than 150 lines in that survey). Maps of a few of the trace species — the first images obtained for most
of these — reveal diverse angular distributions, allowing us to distinguish the different regions in which each species is present
in this complex source.

Facilitator
-Name: Pei-Ying Hsieh

===============June 14 Fri==============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:ATCセミナー
定例・臨時の別:臨時
日時:6月14日(金曜日)13時30分~14時30分
場所:大セミナー室 + Zoom

講演者: Pradip Gatkine 氏
所属: UCLA
タイトル:Astronomical instruments on a chip – Getting ready for the next-generation telescopes

Abstract:
Astrophotonics is the application of versatile photonic technologies to channel, manipulate, and disperse guided light from one or more telescopes to achieve scientific objectives in astronomy in an efficient and cost-effective way. The photonic platform of guided light in fibers and waveguides has opened the doors to next-generation instrumentation for both ground- and space-based telescopes in optical and near/mid-IR bands, particularly for the large and extremely large telescopes (ELTs). Utilizing the photonic advantage for astronomical spectroscopy is a promising approach to massively miniaturize the next generation of spectrometers for large ground- and space-based telescopes. In this talk, I will discuss some of the recent results from our efforts to design and fabricate high-throughput on-chip spectrometers based on Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG). These devices are ideally suited for capturing the AO-corrected light and enabling exciting science cases, such as measuring exoplanet masses and characterizing exoplanet atmospheres. I will also discuss specific approaches to make this technology science-ready for the ELT era.

世話人の連絡先
-名前:永井 誠

備考:英語での講演。

===============June 14 Fri===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:June 14, 2024 15:30-16:30
Place:Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)

Speaker:Dr. Nimesh Patel
Affiliation:Center for Astrophysics/ Harvard University

Title:Building the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope

Abstract:The next-generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) will be a transformative upgrade to the EHT, that will allow us to create time-lapse movies of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at event horizon scales. By enhancing the angular resolution, dynamic range, and improved temporal coverage, the ngEHT promises a new era of discovery in black hole science, allowing us to study strong-field gravity features predicted by General Relativity (GR), active accretion, and relativistic jet launching processes. The ngEHT program aims to achieve these goals by adding four 10m-class submillimeter dishes at new geographic locations around the globe, for improved spatial frequency coverage. Several of the existing EHT stations will have upgraded receivers and fore-optics for simultaneous multifrequency observations (86, 230 and 345 GHz), and new backends and data recorders with significantly higher data rates (up to 320 Gb/s). The ngEHT will allow longer duration high cadence observations allowing creation of movies of black holes and jets. This talk will describe the ngEHT’s technical plans, design considerations, station siting, and the project’s timeline.

Facilitator
-Name:Takashi Moriya

=============== June 14 Fri===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Sporadic
Date and time:14 June (Fri), 15:30-17:00
Place: Insei Seminar Room and Zoom

Speaker:Dr. Alexei Pevtsov
Affiliation:National Solar Observatory
Title: Integrated Synoptic Program at the US National Solar Observatory and ngGONG

Abstract:

Providing the background synoptic observations to characterize the variable solar activity and operating ground-based facilities to enable
such long-term observations are two key aspects of the US National Solar Observatory (NSO) mission, which are entrusted to NSO’s Integrated
Synoptic Program (NISP). The program operates two facilities: Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) and Synoptic Optical Long‐term
Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS). Data from these facilities are provided to research and space weather operation communities. This talk
will overview the Program activities, provide status of GONG and SOLIS facilities, and discuss their future replacement – a ground-based
network of robotic instruments provisionally called next generation GONG (ngGONG).

Facilitator
-Name:Akiko Tei

Comment:Japanese (Slides will be in English)