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Research Field
Optical-Infrared astronomy, Instrumentation for astronomy, Time domain astronomy
Research Subject
Survey of short-time-scale transients. Developments of instruments for optical and infrared astronomy.
Current Research
[Research Interests] Origin of the Earth and life, exoplanets, star and planet formation, small bodies in the solar system, interstellar and interplanetary dust, unknown transient universe.
[Instrumentation] Development of optical wide-field cameras. Near and mid-infrared cameras and spectrometers. Remote and automatic observation system for ground-based telescopes.
[Detectors] Development of data acquisition system for large-format and high-speed array sensors. Evaluation of optical and infrared detectors. CMOS high-speed video sensors.
[Advanced optics] Development of functional optical elements. Metal mesh wavelength-selective filter for infrared. Moth-eye antireflective coating for infrared. Sub-wavelength structure elements.
[Informatics with big data] Acquisition of sky big data by optical video-sky-survey. Machine learning. Sparse modeling. Optimization. Advanced database. Real time data analysis system.
[Social utilization and education] Utilization of big data of space debris, artificial satellites, and wide-field images obtained by the video-sky-survey. Actions towards SDGs with nature big data and high-speed network.
Keywords
Origin of the Earth and life, Instrumentation, TAO, Kiso, Optical, Infrared, Transient phenomena, Astroinformatics