MIR Astronomy Group / UT

NEWS

2025.1.31

Senoo-san(M2) presented her master's thesis. The title of her presentation was “Properties of circumstellar organic dust: chemical structure analysis of cosmic dust analogue and observation of organic dust around Wolf- Rayet 140”.

2024.5.2

A ceremony to celebrate the completion of the TAO site was held in Chile. In addition to Miyata, Kamizuka, and Hirao, three graduate students from the Institute of Astronomy, including Senoo-san (M2), participated in the site visit tour and experienced the environment of TAO at 5,640 meters above sea level.

2024.2.9

Kojima-san (B4) made a presentation titled "MIR standard stars for monitoring observations by TAO/MIMIZUKU" as graduation research.

2024.2.2

Naruse-san (M2) make a master thesis presentation titled "Development of a high-precision flat-fielding system for mid-infrared monitoring observations by TAO/MIMIZUKU"

2023.8.11

Naruse-san (M2) published a paper titled "Development of a flat calibration unit for accurate flat fielding in the mid-infrared region” in Journal of Astronomical Telescope, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS).

2023.4.7

Tachibana-san(D3) published a scientific paper titled "Investigation of mid-infrared long-term variability of dusty AGB stars using multiepoch scan data of AKARI and WISE". Further information can be seen here.

2023.2.10

Matsumura-san (B4) made an undergraduated presentation. His research title is "Data anaysys pipeline for ground-based mid-infrared instruments"

2023.2.1

IIda-san (M2) made a master thesis presentation titled "Development of 30 micron band-pass filter and evaluation of Si:Sb detector for the midinfrared instrument MIMIZUKU"

2022.7.17-22

Miyata, Kamizuka, and Naruse parcititated the international conference SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2022 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and made the following presentations about TAO/MIMIZUKU.

・Development status of TAO/MIMIZUKU: performance test of the near-infrared channel

・Development of a flat calibration unit for TAO/MIMIZUKU

・Development of a cold chopper for TAO/MIMIZUKU: cryogenic test

2022.4.1

An introductory article about our team was published in the Web Magazine "RIGAKU RU" published by School of Science, the University of Tokyo

2022.3.30

Michifuji-san has graduated from the master's degree. Master Thesis Title :"The mid-infrared observations of the episodic dust formation by WR137 with Subaru/COMICS and the development of cold chopper for TAO/MIMIZUKU".

2021.4.5

MIMIZUKU was temporary disassembled in the IoA labo.

2021.4.1

IIda-san (new M1) and Naruse-san (new B4) were joined our group as new members!

2021.2.4-5

Tachibana-san made a master thesis defense presentation titled "AKARI・WISE によるダストに埋もれたAGB 星の中間赤外線長期変光調査 (Investigation of mid infrared variability of dusty AGB stars with AKARI and WISE)"

2020.12.14-18

Kamizuka and Michifuji reported the current status of MIMIZUKU in SPIE meeting "Astronomical Telescope + Instrumentation 2020" (on-line).

2020.10.12-16

Miyata, Kamizuka, Tachibana, and Michifuji did presentations in ESO workshop "Ground-based thermal infrared astronomy – past, present and future" (on-line workshop)

2020.9.24

MIMIZUKU development activity has been restarted in the TAO laboratory in Mitaka, Japan.

2020.4.20

For prospective students

If you are interested in our research, please feel free to contact us. On-line consultation of carrier is also possible. Please send me an email first.

2020.4.7

Due to global pandemic of COVID-19, we suspended our development activities for a while. See also measues of the UTokyo against COVID-19 disease.

2019.12.26

MIMIZUKU comes back from a long trip from Hawaii to Mitaka labo. in Institute of Astronomy.

2019.8.27-28

We held an international workshop titled "Mid-Infrared Astronomy ~Past 20 years and Future 20 years", and discuss science cases of future mid-infrared missions including TAO/MIMIZUKU. Details can be seen here

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