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Masaomi Tanaka, Professor
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The Tanaka Lab, in the Astronomical Institute at Tohoku University, conducts observational and theoretical research on a wide variety of transient objects in the universe. Through this research, the lab investigates the physics of high-energy explosive phenomena and the origin of heavy elements. The listed research keywords include time-domain astronomy, multi-messenger astronomy, supernova explosions, and neutron star mergers.
Masashi Chiba, Professor
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The Chiba Lab studies how galaxies formed and how they have changed over time. Its listed research interests are galaxy formation and evolution, galactic archaeology, dark matter in galaxies, and observational cosmology. The lab's website also publishes articles, in Japanese, about research investigating the Milky Way and nearby galaxies.
Misato Fukagawa, Professor
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The Fukagawa Lab observes protoplanetary disks and exoplanets to study how planetary systems form. Based at the Astronomical Institute at Tohoku University, the lab uses telescopes such as the Subaru Telescope and ALMA, and works together with computations and simulations carried out by theory groups. A protoplanetary disk is a disk of gas and solid microscopic particles (dust) surrounding a young star. The lab's website presents it under the name "Planetary System Formation (Observation) Research Group."
Dragan Salak, Associate Professor
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The Salak Lab studies how galaxies were born and have evolved, using observations from radio telescopes. Its targets include galaxies in the early universe, dust-obscured galaxies and quasars, and active galactic nuclei and star formation in nearby galaxies. For observations of molecular and atomic gas, the lab mainly uses radio telescopes such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
Kazumi Kashiyama, Associate Professor
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The Kashiyama Lab studies mysterious phenomena that occur in the universe from the standpoint of theoretical astrophysics. Drawn to phenomena involving compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars, the lab is especially interested in time-variable and transient objects. It does not restrict itself to a particular wavelength of observed light or type of particle, and combines them as much as possible in its thinking. The lab sometimes writes papers and observing proposals together with researchers who specialize in observation.
Kengo Tomida, Associate Professor
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The Computational Astrophysics Lab uses large-scale numerical simulations to study how stars form and how disks form around them. By including a wide range of physical processes such as magnetic fields and radiation, and taking an approach as close to first principles as possible, the lab investigates the formation of protostars and circumstellar disks. From the simulation results, the lab derives light signals that can be compared directly with observations, and also works on comparing them with actual observational results and planning observations. The lab co-develops Athena++, a new simulation code for this kind of research.
Hirofumi Noda, Associate Professor
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The Noda Lab observes high-energy objects such as black holes in X-rays, and at the same time develops instruments to be mounted on satellites. Associate Professor Noda joined the Astronomical Institute at Tohoku University in April 2024 and established the lab as an X-ray astronomy lab. Supermassive black holes lie hidden at the centers of galaxies, and when they swallow surrounding matter, they emit intense electromagnetic radiation as active galactic nuclei. Because X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere and do not reach the ground, they are observed from space by placing detectors on satellites.
Makoto Hattori, Associate Professor
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The Hattori Lab studies the beginning of the universe through precision observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and research on interstellar dust. The lab developed superconducting detectors for precision CMB observations, installed them on GroundBIRD, a CMB telescope located on Tenerife in Spain, and has started full-scale scientific observations. This research was carried out as an international collaboration with overseas research institutions in countries such as Spain, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the UK, with the solution of fundamental questions as its ultimate goal.
Takashi Murayama, Associate Professor
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The Murayama Lab is an astronomy lab in the Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University. Its research keywords are active galactic nuclei and galaxies. Its listed research topics include the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe, Lyman-alpha emitters, and searches for protogalaxies.
Takahiro Morishita, Associate Professor
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The Morishita Lab studies the properties of galaxies that formed in the era from a few hundred million to a few billion years after the universe began. It does this using observational data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Its research themes are galaxies in the epoch of reionization, the chemical evolution of galaxies, the structural evolution of galaxies, and large-scale structure and protoclusters in the distant universe. The lab is also involved in processing grism and prism data from the Roman Space Telescope.
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