2023.11.6~2023.11.12

  

November  6  Mon 13:30-15:00 Solar and Space Plasma Seminar hybrid; Subaru Building / Insei Seminar Room or Zoom              


November  7 Tue  9:00-12:00   

SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Preliminary Evaluation 総研大博士学位論文予備審査会
Lecture Room and Zoom&Large Seminar Room and Zoom       


November 7 Tue 10:00-11:30   太陽系小天体セミナー zoom


November 8 Wed 10:30-12:00   SOKENDAI Colloquium Large Seminar      Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


November 10 Fri 16:00-17:00   NAOJ Seminar Zoom/Large Seminar Room(hybrid)


詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== November  6 Mon===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: Solar and Space Plasma Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic: Scheduled
Date and time:6th November (Mon), 13:30-15:00
Place: hybrid; Subaru Building / Insei Seminar Room or Zoom
Speaker:Brigitte Schmieder
Affiliation:Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, France
Title:Solar jets observed by IRIS and high spatial resolution ground-based telescopes
Abstract:Solar jets have been observed over a large range of temperatures and wavelengths, from Hα for more than 50 years, to X-rays since the launch of the Yohkoh satellite in 1991. Several characteristics have been derived about their velocities, their rates of occurrence, and their relationship with CMEs. However, the initiation mechanism of jets, e.g. emerging flux, flux cancellation, or twist, is still debated. The high spatial resolution of IRIS and ground-based telescopes (SST,GST) allows us to make a step forward in understanding the relationship of cool and hot jets. Combining IRIS data with vector magnetograms we were able to study the magnetic environment favorable for the occurrence of jets. We searched for possible sites of reconnection by analyzing the magnetic topology.
We found that the magnetic reconnection site can be located at a null point in the corona as well as in a bald patch region forming a current sheet. The IRIS spectra provide evidence of bilateral flows at the reconnection site, due to a transfer of twist from a flux rope to the jet. We detected the presence of cool plasma and hot plasma during the jet formation, including ejections of blobs with speeds reaching super Alfvénic flows of the order of 300 km/s.

Facilitator
-Name:Takayoshi oba
Comment:in English

=============== November  7 Tue===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Doctoral Thesis Preliminary Evaluation 総研大博士学位論文予備審査会
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Sporadic
Date and time:November 7, 2023 9:00~12:00

Place 1:Lecture Room and Zoom

Speaker:
9:00-9:40 Raiga Kashiwagi
Title:Instability and Evolution of Shocked Clouds Formed by Collisions between Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Speaker:
10:00-10:40 Yui Kasagi
Title:Unveiling Atmospheric Features of Faint Substellar Companions from High-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra

Speaker:
11:00-11:40 Takaho Masai
Title:A Study on the Design of Receiver Optics and Waveguide Components Towards High-Performance (Sub)millimeter Wave Multibeam Receivers

Place 2:Large Seminar Room and Zoom

Speaker:
9:00-9:40 Rikuto Omae
Title:Probing the Magnetic Fields of Distant Galaxies to Unravel the Evolution of Galactic Magnetic Fields

Speaker:
10:00-10:40 Yuta Tashima
Title:Elucidation of Galactic Magnetic Field Structure by Pseudo-Observation Focusing on Depolarization

Facilitator
-Name:Nozomu Tominaga, Hideyuki Kobayashi, Natsuko Fujii (Graduate Student Affairs Unit)

=============== November 7 Tue==============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時:11月7日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:佐藤幹哉

世話人の連絡先
 名前:渡部潤一

備考:テレビ会議またはスカイプによる参加も可

=============== November 8 Wed==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:November 8, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Shunsuke Sasaki
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Tomoya Takiwaki, Mami Machida, Takashi Moriya)
Title: Developing “1D+” simulation of core-collapse supernovae

Speaker: Raiga Kashiwagi
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 5th year (D3) (Supervisor: Kazunari Iwasaki, Tomoya Takiwaki, Doris Arzoumanian)
Title: Instability and Evolution of Shocked Clouds Formed by Collisions between Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== November 10 Fri==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:November 10, 2023 16:00-17:00
Place:Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)

Speaker:Prof,Yasuhito Sekine
Affiliation:Earth-Life Science Institute

Title:Detection of phosphate in Enceladus’ ocean and comparative chemical evolution in the Solar System
Abstract:
Planetary habitability can be defined as a planetary-scale system that can develop and sustain ingredients of life—liquid water, organics, and energy—over geological time. In this regard, Enceladus possesses a habitable world beneath the icy shell. This moon has a global subsurface ocean interacting with a rocky core, and a wide variety of organic matter and chemical energy supported by hydrothermal activities are available. Among the major bioessential elements for Earth’s life, phosphorus (P) is usually the least abundant in natural aqueous systems and has been a limiting nutrient of primary productivity over Earth’s history. It has been unknown whether this essential element is available in Enceladus. Here we report the discovery of phosphate in ice grains emitted by Enceladus based on the analysis by Cassini’s Cosmic Dust Analyser. Our observational results are evidence that phosphorus is readily available in Enceladus’ ocean, with anomalously high concentrations–at least 100 times higher than Earth’s oceans. To understand the causative mechanism of the enrichment of phosphate, we performed hydrothermal experiments and geochemical modeling. We find that alkaline (pH ~10) and carbonate-rich aqueous environments are essential for the phosphate enrichment, where calcium phosphate minerals are thermodynamically unstable compared to calcium carbonate minerals. Such alkaline carbonate-rich aqueous environments are commonly achieved in icy ocean worlds beyond the CO2 snowline of the Solar System. Phosphate could have been also enriched in similar alkaline carbonate-rich aqueous environments on early Earth, where earliest life on Earth might have utilized phosphorus as components of its building materials.

Facilitator
-Name:Okamoto, Takenori


2023.10.30-2023.11.5


October 31 Tue   10:00-11:30  太陽系小天体セミナー    Zoom
                    


October 31 Tue  15:30-16:30    NAOJ Seminar 
                   Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)             


November 1 Wed 10:30-12:00   SOKENDAI Colloquium 
            Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


November 1 Wed 14:30-15:30   ALMA-J seminar  
            hybrid (ROOM102 in ALMA building and ZOOM)


November 1 Wed 15:30-16:30   NAOJ Science Colloquium  
              the rinkoh seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)


November 2 Thu 11:00-12:00   Tea Talk       Zoom

詳細は下記からご覧ください。

=============== October  31 Tue===============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時:10月31日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:藤井大地

世話人の連絡先
 名前:渡部潤一
備考:テレビ会議またはスカイプによる参加も可

=============== October  31 Tue==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:October 31, 2023 15:30-16:30
Place:Zoom/Large Seminar Room (hybrid)

Speaker:Ruobing Dong, PhD
Affiliation:University of Victoria

Title:Observational Planet Formation
Abstract:
It is hard to see a plane cruising at 10 km during daytime, as the plane is
tiny and faint on the sky. But, if we can see the contrail tailed behind the
plane, we know where the plane is. Now, astronomers are applying the same
principle to study how planets form, by detecting and charactering the
structures baby planets produce in their birth cradles – protoplanetary
disks. This is a new field largely driven by discoveries made by some of the
largest and most advanced telescopes ever built. I will introduce the
current status of the field, and highlight some of the latest developments
as well as unsolved problems.

Facilitator
-Name:Prof. Nomura, Hideko

=============== November 1 Wed==============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:November 1, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place:Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Ryota Hatami
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 1st year (M1) (Supervisor: Nozomu Tominaga, Tomoya Takiwaki, Koh Takahashi)
Title: Synthesis of Sc, Ti, and V in core-collapse Supernovae toward constraining explosion mechanism

Speaker: Masato Sato
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 4th year (D2) (Supervisor: Nozomu Tominaga, Tomoya Takiwaki, Takashi Moriya)
Title: Exploring electron-capture supernovae in past observations

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== November 1 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: ALMA-J seminar
Date and time: Nov 1st (Wed) 14:30-15:30
Place: hybrid (ROOM102 in ALMA building and ZOOM)
Speaker: Ceci Xue
Affiliation: MIT
Title: Molecular Spectra Diagnostics with a Bayesian MCMC Approach
Abstract:
The recent improvement in receiver technology within modern facilities has enabled us to efficiently perform wide-band and high-sensitive molecular line surveys. To better extract the information from these wide-band spectral data, we introduce a molecular signal diagnostic tool coupling a non-LTE radiative transfer model and a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach. Based on RADEX (van der Tak et al. 2007), our tool features novel implementations to support multiple components along the line of sight and allow Bayesian inference about physical characteristics. In contrast to a canonical least-squares fit approach, MCMC analyses allow a more efficient exploration of the physical parameter space and provide access to the parameter’s probability distribution, which can be used to characterize the confidence intervals and covariances between parameters. In this talk, following a brief introduction to Bayesian statistics, we will present a case study demonstrating the analysis of molecular line observations from ALMA using this tool. Specifically, we will share the first detection and mapping of the Class I methanol maser at 84 GHz toward the north region of Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud. We resolved the regions where the maser emission originates and assessed their observed spectral profiles respectively. The results suggest a chained two-component model for explaining the intense methanol Class I maser emission toward a region with weak continuum background radiation. In addition, our diagnostic tool will be applied to the spectral line survey, GOTHAM, which has a total bandwidth of 25GHz, to conduct the full chemical census toward the TMC-1 dark cloud.

Organizers: Gianni Cataldi, Hiroshi Nagai

=============== November 1 Wed==============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Nov. 1 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: the rinkoh seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Biagio De Simone
Affiliation: UNISA
Title: An Optical Gamma-Ray Burst catalogue with Measured Redshift: Data Release of 533 Gamma-Ray Bursts and colour evolution
Abstract:
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are incredibly energetic cosmic phenomena observed across a wide range of wavelengths, including gamma-ray and optical frequencies, and occasionally even in radio waves. They allow extending the Hubble diagram and the cosmological analysis up to redshift z=9.4, much further than Supernovae Ia (z=2.26).
We therefore present a compilation of 533 optical lightcurves (LCs) of all GRBs with measured redshifts, detected mainly by Swift and 418 ground-based telescopes from February 28, 1997, to April 14, 2023. This catalogue is the largest optical repository of GRB LCs with redshifts to date, with 64615 photometric data points, including upper limits. Our user-friendly web tool, grbLC, allows the acquisition of GRB LCs, including information on the position, redshift, and a Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN) crawler that can be used to collect data by gathering magnitudes from the GCNs. The web tool also includes a package for uniformly investigating colour evolution. We have crafted a procedure to distinguish between GRBs in our sample, which undergo colour evolution, and GRBs for which no colour evolution is present. We compared our results with the literature. This web-based archive is the first step towards unifying several community efforts to gather optical LCs by providing a unified format and repository for the optical catalogue. This catalogue will enable population studies by providing LCs with better coverage since we have gathered data from different ground-based locations, resulting in fewer gaps in the LCs and representing crucial support for the LC reconstructions analysis.

Speaker: Chanoul Seo
Affiliation: NAOJ
Title: Impact of Magma Redox States on Super-Earth Atmospheres:
Unveiling the Connection with Atmospheric Composition
Abstract:
Most exoplanets with radii larger than ~1.6Earth mass are more inflated than bare-rock planets with the same mass, indicating a substantial amount of volatile. While it is hard to constrain the origin of the volatiles or the planet’s bulk composition only from the mass-radius relation, the spectral characterization of their atmospheres is expected to solve this degeneracy. Previous models pointed out that the interaction between the accreted volatile and the likely molten rock (i.e., magma) beneath the atmosphere would affect the atmospheric composition significantly. However, existing models do not clarify the dependence of the atmospheric compositions with major spectral fingerprints on the observable planetary parameters. In this work, we explore the possible range of H, O, and C in the atmosphere of exoplanets as a function of observable planetary parameters (mass, radius, equilibrium temperature) using a simple chemical equilibrium model. Consistent with the previous work, we show that the water fraction in contact with magma ocean is the order of 10^-2~10^-1 if the dry planetary core accretes the nebula gas. Due to the difference in solubility of H-bearing and C-bearing species in molten rock, C/H shows an increase of ×3~10^2. The low values correspond to H2-rich atmospheres while the high values (the order of magnitude difference) correspond to the thin atmosphere with pressure <10^3 bar. Therefore, the C/O remains relatively low in most of the parameter range considered, below one-tenth of the nebula gas value if the atmospheric H2O fraction is over five percent. These trends provide a clue to verify or falsify the formation scenario of super-Earth/sub-Neptune from atmospheric compositions.

Facilitator
-Name: Maria Giovanna Dainotti
Comment: English

=============== November 2 Thu==============

キャンパス:三鷹 野辺山 水沢 岡山 ハワイ
セミナー名:Tea Talk
定例・臨時の別:臨時
日時:11/2(木)11:00~12:00
場所:Zoom(のみ)
Speaker:Hannah Harris
Title:
International Scientific Cooperation with North Korea: from Ancient Astronomy to Today

Abstract:
The Korean Peninsula is home to an ancient and unique tradition in astronomy. Beginning with the prehistoric Stone Age and blossoming over the last two thousand years, astronomy is deeply enmeshed in Korean culture. It is unsurprising that North Korea, just like its neighbor to the South, continued this scientfic tradition. Yet astronomy and science in North Korea is still relatively unknown and understudied. Today, North Korean scientists are active participants in the international scientific community across many fields and disciplines. This talk presents the history and future prospects for international scientific cooperation with North Korea with an emphasis on astronomy.

Short bio:
Hannah Harris is a Canadian-American science communicator, researcher, and a current Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). She has a Bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from Wellesley College (USA) and researched spinning black holes at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics and the Gravitational Physics Group at Cardiff University (Wales, UK). Recently, she finished a dual-degree masters program between Russia and the United States, where she studied nuclear physics, nuclear energy, and nuclear weapons, as well as international relations. Her thesis focused on scientific research in North Korea and the possibilities for nuclear risk reduction through peaceful scientific cooperation. Since 2014, she has collaborated with the IAU on a variety of space policy and outreach projects and served as the project manager for the “Inclusive Astronomy” programme during the IAU100 centennial celebrations in 2019.

世話人の連絡先:
-名前:藤田登起子
参加方法:Zoom


2023/10/16~2023/10/22

Oct 17 Tue  10:00-11:30   太陽系小天体セミナー Zoom


Oct 17 Tue  13:30-14:30 NAOJ Seminar zoom/ Large seminar room in Subaru Building


Oct 18 Wed  10:30-12:00   SOKENDAI Colloquium Hybrid;Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom


Oct 18 Wed  14:30-15:30 ALMA-J seminar hybrid (ROOM102 in ALMA building and ZOOM)


Oct 18 Wed  15:30-16:30 NAOJ Science Colloquium The large seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)


詳細は以下をご覧下さい。

=============== October 17 Tue===============

キャンパス:三鷹
セミナー名:太陽系小天体セミナー
定例・臨時の別:定例
日時:10月17日(火曜日)10時00分~11時30分
場所:zoom
講演者:藤原康徳

世話人の連絡先
名前:渡部潤一

備考:テレビ会議またはスカイプによる参加も可

=============== October 17 Tue===============

Campus:Mitaka
Seminar:NAOJ Seminar
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regularly Scheduled Date and time:2023 Oct 17, 13:30-14:30
Place:zoom/ Large seminar room in Subaru Building

Speaker:Dr,Bruno Dias
Affiliation: President, Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía (SOCHIAS) Professor, Institute of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), Chile

Title: The Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS)

Abstract: The Chilean Astronomical Society (SOCHIAS) was founded on May 31, 2000 with the goals of boosting Astronomy in Chile, managing the interests of Chilean astronomers, organising scientific meetings, establishing and maintaining contact with organizations in Chile and abroad, and supporting Astronomy education, among other related objectives. In this context, two representatives of the current SOCHIAS board are visiting Japan, and in this presentation we will show some information about SOCHIAS as well as some of our initiatives. We hope to keep and strengthen the relationship among Japanese and Chilean astronomical communities.

Facilitator
-Name:Izumi Takuma

=============== October 18 Wed===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: SOKENDAI Colloquium
Regularly Scheduled/Sporadic:Regular
Date and time:October 18, 2023 10:30-12:00
Place: hybrid; Large Seminar Room in Subaru Building and Zoom

Speaker: Moka Nishigaki
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 3rd year (D1) (Supervisor: Masami Ouchi, Tadafumi Takata, Kimihiko Nakajima)
Title: Modeling the Mass-Metallicity Relation with Dark Matter Halo Assembly from z=0–10

Speaker: Kuria Watanabe
Affiliation: SOKENDAI 2nd year (M2) (Supervisor: Masami Ouchi, Nozomu Tominaga, Masato Onodera)
Title: The Chemical enrichment and origin of Nitrogen-Rich Galaxies at High Redshift

Facilitator
-Name:Matsuda, Graduate Student Affairs Unit

=============== October 18 Wed===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: ALMA-J seminar
Date and time: Oct 18th (Wed) 14:30-15:30
Place: hybrid (ROOM102 in ALMA building and ZOOM)

Speaker: Pei-Ying Hsieh
Affiliation: NAOJ

Title:The circumnuclear disk revealed by ALMA – environments of star formation in the inner 10 pc of the Galaxy

Abstract:The molecular 2-pc circumnuclear disk (CND) immediately around the Milky Way supermassive black hole (SMBH), SgrA, resembles the “molecular torus” in AGNs, providing a unique opportunity to study SMBH accretion and nuclear star formation at sub-parsec scales. In recent years, I have been studying the key question of how much of the available gas can actually form stars in the environment around Sgr A, and how material is being moved around and accreted in this region. The lifetime of the CND has been a long-standing debate over the past decade. The CND can not live longer than 10^5 years if the gas density is under the tidal threshold of SgrA/nuclear star clusters, thus depleting the source of fuel and star formation. Utilizing the ALMA and various single-dish telescopes, we present CS line maps toward the CND of the Galactic Center. Our primary goal is to resolve the compact structures within the CND and the streamers, in order to understand the stability conditions of molecular cores in the vicinity of Sgr A. Our data provide the first homogeneous high-resolution (1.3″ = 0.05 pc) observations aiming at resolving density and temperature structures. A stability analysis based on the unmagnetized virial theorem including tidal force shows that 84 (+16/-37) % of the total gas mass (2.5X10^4 Msun) is tidally stable, which accounts for the majority of gas mass. Turbulence dominates the internal energy and thereby sets the threshold densities 10-100 times higher than the tidal limit at distance >1.5 pc to Sgr A*, and therefore, inhibits the clouds from collapsing to form stars near the SMBH.

Organizers: Gianni Cataldi , Hiroshi Nagai

=============== October 18 Wed===============

Campus: Mitaka
Seminar: NAOJ Science Colloquium
Date and time: 2023 Oct. 18 (Wed.), 15:30-16:30
Place: The large seminar room / Zoom (hybrid)

Speaker: Yoshiaki Misugi
Affiliation: NAOJ

Title: Evolution of the Angular Momentum of Molecular Cloud Cores in Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Abstract:
The angular momentum of molecular cloud cores plays a key role in the star formation process. However, the evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores formed in magnetized molecular filaments is still unclear. We perform three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations to reveal the evolution of the angular momentum of molecular cloud cores formed through filament fragmentation. As a result, we find that the angular momentum decreases by 30% and 50% at the mass scale of
1 Msun in the case of weak and strong magnetic field, respectively. By analyzing the torques exerted on fluid elements at different mass scales, we identify the magnetic tension as the dominant process for angular momentum transfer for mass scales < 3 M sun for the strong magnetic field case. This critical mass scale can be understood semi-analytically as the time scale of magnetic braking. We show that the anisotropy of the angular momentum transfer due to the presence of strong magnetic field changes the resultant angular momentum of the core only by a factor of two. We also find that the distribution of the angle between the direction of the angular momentum and the magnetic field is random even just before the first core formation. Our results also indicate that the variety of the angular momentum of core inherited from the difference of the phase of the initial turbulent velocity field could contribute to the diversity in size and other properties of protoplanetary disks recently reported by observations.

Facilitator
-Name: Kanji Mori
Comment: English

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)


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=============== 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