2023.7.24-2023.7.30


July  26  Wed   10:30-12:00      SOKENDAI Colloquium    Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


July  26 Wed    13:30-15:00  Solar and Space Plasma Seminar   Zoom


July  26 Wed   15:00-16:00  NAOJ Science Colloquium    Zoom / Large Seminar Room (hybrid)


July 27  Thu  16:00-17:00     NAOJ Seminar Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


July  28 Fri    16:00-17:00      NAOJ Seminar       Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== July  26 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:July 26, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Ryota Ichimura
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 3re year (D1) (Supervisor: Hideko Nomura, Akimasa Kataoka, Nanase Harada)
Title: Gas-Grain Model for Carbon Isotope Fractionation of COMs in Star-Forming Cores

Speaker: Umi Kobayashi
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 5th year (D3) (Supervisor: Masayuki Tanaka, Koichiro Nakanishi, Masatoshi Imanishi)
Title: TBA

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== July  26 Wed===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Scheduled
Date and time:26th July (Wednesday), 13:30-15:00
Place: zoom

Speaker:Dr. Tomoko Kawate
Title :An Inductively Coupled Plasma System for Investigating Spectropolarimetric Responses of Solar Plasmas to Anisotropic Fields
Abstract:
High precision measurements and accurate modeling of atomic polarization under three-dimensional radiation transfer are crucial to understand the structures of magnetized solar plasmas.
To develop and validate spectropolarimetric measurements and analyses, we set up an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) generator designed especially for ∼ 1-eV plasmas
interacting with radiation and weak magnetic fields. The device was put in front of the focal plane of the Horizontal Spectrograph of the Domeless Solar Telescope
at Hida Observatory of Kyoto University. In helium discharges, the typical electron temperature, electron density, and helium column density of the ICP are comparable
values to those of solar prominences, and the direct comparison of spectra shows almost the same opacity at He I 1083 nm. Magnetic and radiation fields were introduced to the ICP,
and the system successfully reproduced reasonable spectropolarimetric signals as compared with those from the solar prominences.

Facilitator
-Name:Yusuke Kawabata

=============== July  26 Wed===============
Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Science Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Every Wednesday
Date and time:2023 July 26, 15:00-16:00
Place:Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)

Speaker:Toshiki Sato
Affiliation:Meiji University
Title:Exploring the interior of supernovae and their progenitors using
supernova remnants
Abstract:
It is difficult to observe the physical conditions inside the
supernova or its progenitor star immediately before and after the
supernova explosion, where the important physics of stellar evolution
and supernova explosions are concentrated. Our research focuses on the
X-ray study of “supernova remnants” in order to extract the internal
information at the moment of a star’s death. The uniqueness of supernova
remnants is that it is possible to observe different elements
synthesized inside stars and supernovae, and to infer the internal
physical states (electron fraction, density structure, etc.) from the
amount of elements. In this colloquium, based on our recent X-ray
research, we would like to discuss what kind of information can be
obtained from supernova remnant observations, and what we can expect
from future research on supernovae and their progenitors.

Facilitator
-Name:Koh Takahashi

Comment:English

=============== July  27 Thu===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Spordiac
Date and time:2023 July 27, 16:00-17:00
Place:Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)

Speaker:Achamveedu, Gopakumar
Affiliation:Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Title: Promise of persistent multi-messenger GW astronomy with sources like Blazar OJ287
Abstract:
Recent coordinated observations and interpretations of disparate `messenger’ signals from GW170817-GRB170817AEM170817
has inaugurated the era of multi-messenger transient gravitational wave (GW) astronomy.
I will argue that the bright Blazar OJ 287 should allow us to pursue persistent multi-messenger GW
astronomy during the era of Square Kilometer Array.This is mainly due to the several successful multi-wavelength
observational campaigns that allowed us to establish the presence of a spinning supermassive black hole
binary that spirals in due to the emission of nano-Hertz GWs in the central engine of a unique blazar OJ287.
Our on-going efforts, relevant to the EHT/GMVA consortia and the International Pulsar Timing Array consortium which
aims to detect GWs from such massive BH systems in the coming years, will be also listed.

Facilitator
-Name:Fumitaka Nakamura

=============== July  28 Fri===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:2023 July 28, 16:00-17:00
Place:Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)

Speaker:Samuel Totorica
Affiliation:Division of Science, NAOJ
Title: Magnetic reconnection in large-scale astrophysical systems
Abstract:
Magnetic reconnection is an important source of energetic particles in systems ranging from astrophysical compact objects to laboratory fusion devices.
The large separation of spatiotemporal scales involved in reconnection makes it critical to determine the minimum physical models containing
the necessary physics for modeling particle acceleration. In this presentation, I will discuss two methods for bridging
the gap between macro- and micro-scales in reconnection using fully kinetic particle-in-cell simulations. First, we study the onset of substorms
in Earth’s magnetosphere using exact kinetic equilibria extending from near-Earth into the distant magnetotail.
Using two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we study the onset of reconnection, the disruption of reconnection fronts,
and their roles in producing nonthermal particles observed by satellite measurements. Second, I will discuss a novel method for
separating kinetic and fluid effects by exactly calculating the ideal and nonideal magnetohydrodynamic electric fields within fully kinetic simulations.
Applying this to the relativistically magnetized conditions of astrophysical compact objects, we determine the critical role
of the nonideal electric field during the early stage of particle acceleration known as injection. These results have critical implications for
nonthermal emissions from high-energy astrophysical objects, and the novel analysis method can be applied more broadly to give new insight into a wide range of processes in plasma physics.

Facilitator
-Name:Fumitaka Nakamura

2023.7.18-2023.7.23


July  19  Wed   10:30-12:00      SOKENDAI Colloquium   

Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


July  19 Wed    13:30-14:30      NAOJ Seminar

Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


July 19  Wed  15:30-16:30     NAOJ Science Colloquium  

Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== July  19 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:July 19, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Miho Tan
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 1st year (M1) (Supervisor: Mami Machida, Tomoya Takiwaki, Kazunari Iwasaki)
Title: The history of mass ratio determination of X-Ray Binary SS433

Speaker : Kousuke Ishihara
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Masao Saito, Fumitaka Nakamura, Patricio Sanhueza)
Title: Observational study of the fragmentation process in nearby star-forming regions

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== July  19 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Spordiac
Date and time:2023 July 19, 13:30-14:30
Place:Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)

Speaker:Prof. Dr.Reinhard Genzel
Affiliation:Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
Title:Testing the Massive Black Hole Paradigm in the Galactic Center
Abstract:
The discovery of the Quasars in the 1960s led to the ‘massive black hole paradigm’ in which most galaxies host massive black holes of masses
between millions to billions of solar masses at their nuclei, which can become active galactic nuclei
and quasars when they accrete gas and stars rapidly. I will discuss the major progress that has happened
in the last decades to prove the massive black hole paradigm through ever more detailed, high resolution observations,
in the center of our own Galaxy, as well as in external galaxies and even in distant quasars.
In the Galactic Center such high resolution observations can also be used to test General Relativity in the regime of large masses and curvatures.

Facilitator
-Name:Fumitaka Nakamura

=============== July  19 Wed===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Science Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Every Wednesday
Date and time:2023 July 19, 15:30-16:30
Place:Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)

Speaker:Masato Sato
Affiliation:NAOJ (D2)
Title:Light curves of electron capture and Fe core collapse supernovae:
The diagnostic method of electron capture supernovae
Abstract:
While massive stars (M>~10Msun) explode as Fe core collapse supernovae
(FeCCSNe) at their last moment, those have slightly lower mass
(M~8-10Msun) are theoretically expected to form O+Ne+Mg degenerated
core, become Super Asymptotic Giant Branches (SAGB) and finally explode
as electron capture supernovae (ECSNe) if their envelope is remained
(Miyaji et al. 1980; Nomoto et al. 1982; Nomoto 1984, 1987). However,
such evolutionary path and the mass boundary between FeCCSN and ECSN are
not confirmed and constrained by observation because of insufficient
observations of ECSNe. The reasons why we could hardly diagnose ECSN
clearly are that observational characteristics of ECSNe comparing to
low-mass FeCCSNe are not understood sufficiently, and the diagnostic
method of ECSNe is not established yet. Although Kozyreva et al. (2021)
shows that ECSN has blue plateau, they don’t include circumstellar
material (CSM) interaction. However, CSM interaction might change the
light curve significantly (Moriya et al. 2018). Thus, we synthesized the
multicolor light curves of ECSNe and low-mass FeCCSNe including CSM
interaction using the multi-group radiation hydrodynamics code, STELLA
(Blinnikov et al. 1993). As a result, ECSN is revealed to show bluer
plateau than low-mass FeCCSN even if it has reasonably dense CSM. Using
this characteristic, we propose the first diagnostic method of ECSN in
which the transition time from plateau to tail phase (tPT) and the color
index B-V at tPT/2 are used. In the talk, we will show the calculated
light curves of ECSN and low-mass FeCCSN and discuss their
characteristics. In addition, we will propose the diagnostic method of
ECSN. Also, we will mention our future work in which we will try to find
an ECSN and reveal its nature.

Speaker:Kaho Morii
Affiliation:NAOJ (D2)
Title:Early Fragmentation in Infrared Dark Clouds
Abstract:
The study of infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) sheds light on the initial
conditions governing the formation of high-mass stars and stellar
clusters. We have conducted high-angular resolution and high-sensitivity
observations toward thirty-nine massive IRDC clumps, mosaicked by the
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. These clumps,
characterized by their darkness at 70 μm, as well as their density and
low temperature, are thought to be the ideal sites as the birthplace of
high-mass stars. We succeeded in identifying an unprecedented number of
839 cores, with masses between 0.05 and 81 Msun. With this large sample,
we investigated the fragmentation properties in the very early stage of
high-mass star formation. By employing the minimum spanning tree method,
we calculated core separations ranging from 0.1 pc to 0.4 pc. To discern
the dominant mechanism behind early fragmentation, as well as the
hierarchical nature of the process, we compared these observed core
separations and masses with those expected from Jeans length and masses,
respectively. Our analysis implies that thermal Jeans fragmentation of
clumps is the dominant mechanism deriving the observed properties
especially for the formation of gravitationally bound cores.
Additionally, we find that some clumps exhibit a wide dynamic range of
core masses, spanning from low to high masses while others show a
narrower range. Clumps with a higher protostellar core fraction tend to
display a wider range. Furthermore, our sample highlights the complex
nature of fragmentation, characterized by various patterns such as
aligned, spread, and concentrated distributions. These findings provide
valuable insights into the mechanisms deriving high-mass star formation.

Facilitator
-Name:Haruka Kusakabe
-Comment:English

2023.5.22-2023.5.28


May  24  Wed  10:30-12:00  SOKENDAI Colloquium   Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


May  24 Wed   15:30-17:00  NAOJ Science Colloquium  Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid) 


May  26  Fri   13:30-14:30   ATCセミナー        Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


May  26  Fri  16:00-17:00    NAOJ Seminar         Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

“2023.5.22-2023.5.28” の続きを読む

2023.5.15-2023.5.21


May  16  Tue   10:00-11:30    太陽系小天体セミナー    Zoom 


May  17  Wed   10:30-12:00   SOKENDAI Colloquium   Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


May  17  Wed   14:30-15:30    ALMA-J seminar  Zoom / ALMA building #102 (hybrid)


May  17  Wed   15:30-17:00    NAOJ Science Colloquium Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


May  19  Fri  16:00-17:00    NAOJ Seminar         Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


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“2023.5.15-2023.5.21” の続きを読む

2023.5.8-2023.5.14


May 9 Tue   10:00-11:30     太陽系小天体セミナー    Zoom 


May 10 Wed  10:30-12:00    SOKENDAI Colloquium   Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid)


May 10 Wed  15:30-17:00    NAOJ Science Colloquium   Zoom / the large seminar room (hybrid) 


May 12 Fri  16:00-17:00    NAOJ Seminar         Zoom


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

“2023.5.8-2023.5.14” の続きを読む