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Refereed Paper (Lead Author)

1. "Compact Binary Formation in Open Star Clusters III: Probability of Binary Black Holes Hidden Inside of Gaia Black Holes", Tanikawa A., L. Wang, M. S. Fujii, Trani A. A., Hayashi T., Suto Y. 2025, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8, 79

2. "Compact Binary Formation in Open Star Clusters II: Difficulty of Gaia NS formation in low-mass star clusters", Tanikawa, A., L. Wang, and M. S. Fujii 2024, The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 7, 39

3. "Contribution of population III stars to merging binary black holes" Tanikawa, A. 2024, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 8, 13

4. "Compact binary formation in open star clusters - I. High formation efficiency of Gaia BHs and their multiplicities" Tanikawa, A., S. Cary, M. Shikauchi, L. Wang, and M. S. Fujii 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 527, 4031

5. "Search for a Black Hole Binary in Gaia DR3 Astrometric Binary Stars with Spectroscopic Data" Tanikawa, A., K. Hattori, N. Kawanaka, T. Kinugawa, M. Shikauchi, and D. Tsuna 2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 946, 79

6. "Euclid detectability of pair instability supernovae in binary population synthesis models consistent with merging binary black holes" Tanikawa, A., T. J. Moriya, N. Tominaga, and N. Yoshida 2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, L32

7. "MOCCA-SURVEY Database I: tidal disruption events of white dwarfs in globular clusters and young mass clusters" Tanikawa, A., M. Giersz, and M. Arca Sedda 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515, 4038

8. "Can Population III stars be major origins of both merging binary black holes and extremely metal poor stars?" Tanikawa, A., G. Chiaki, T. Kinugawa, Y. Suwa, and N. Tominaga 2022, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 74, 521

9. "Merger Rate Density of Binary Black Holes through Isolated Population I, II, III and Extremely Metal-poor Binary Star Evolution" Tanikawa, A., T. Yoshida, T. Kinugawa, A. A. Trani, T. Hosokawa, H. Susa, and K. Omukai 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 926, 83

10. "Population III binary black holes: effects of convective overshooting on formation of GW190521" Tanikawa, A., T. Kinugawa, T. Yoshida, K. Hijikawa, and H. Umeda 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, 2170

11. "Merger Rate Density of Population III Binary Black Holes Below, Above, and in the Pair-instability Mass Gap" Tanikawa, A., H. Susa, T. Yoshida, A. A. Trani, and T. Kinugawa 2021, The Astrophysical Journal, 910, 30

12. "Fitting formulae for evolution tracks of massive stars under extreme metal-poor environments for population synthesis calculations and star cluster simulations" Tanikawa, A., T. Yoshida, T. Kinugawa, K. Takahashi, and H. Umeda 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495, 4170

13. "Formation rate of LB-1-like systems through dynamical interactions" Tanikawa, A., T. Kinugawa, J. Kumamoto, and M. S. Fujii 2020, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 72, 39

14. "Double-detonation Models for Type Ia Supernovae: Trigger of Detonation in Companion White Dwarfs and Signatures of Companions’ Stripped-off Materials" Tanikawa, A., K. Nomoto, N. Nakasato, and K. Maeda 2019, The Astrophysical Journal, 885, 103

15. "Three-dimensional Simulation of Double Detonations in the Double-degenerate Model for Type Ia Supernovae and Interaction of Ejecta with a Surviving White Dwarf Companion" Tanikawa, A., K. Nomoto, and N. Nakasato 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 868, 90

16. "Metal pollution of low-mass Population III stars through accretion of interstellar objects like `Oumuamua" Tanikawa, A., T. K. Suzuki, and Y. Doi 2018, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 70, 80

17. "High-resolution Hydrodynamic Simulation of Tidal Detonation of a Helium White Dwarf by an Intermediate Mass Black Hole" Tanikawa, A. 2018, The Astrophysical Journal, 858, 26

18. "Tidal double detonation: a new mechanism for the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf induced by a tidal disruption event" Tanikawa, A. 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475, L67

19. "Does Explosive Nuclear Burning Occur in Tidal Disruption Events of White Dwarfs by Intermediate-mass Black Holes?" Tanikawa, A., Y. Sato, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, N. Nakasato, and I. Hachisu 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 839, 81

20. "Hydrodynamical Evolution of Merging Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs: Their Pre-supernova Structure and Observational Counterparts" Tanikawa, A., N. Nakasato, Y. Sato, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, and I. Hachisu 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 807, 40

21. "Merger criteria of multiple massive black holes and the impact on the host galaxy" Tanikawa, A. and M. Umemura 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440, 652

22. "Few-body modes of binary formation in core collapse" Tanikawa, A., D. C. Heggie, P. Hut, and J. Makino 2013, Astronomy and Computing, 3, 35

23. "Dynamical evolution of stellar mass black holes in dense stellar clusters: estimate for merger rate of binary black holes originating from globular clusters" Tanikawa, A. 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, 1358

24. "Phantom-GRAPE: Numerical software library to accelerate collisionless N-body simulation with SIMD instruction set on x86 architecture" Tanikawa, A., K. Yoshikawa, K. Nitadori, and T. Okamoto 2013, New Astronomy, 19, 74

25. "Unexpected formation modes of the first hard binary in core collapse" Tanikawa, A., P. Hut, and J. Makino 2012, New Astronomy, 17, 272

26. "N-body simulation for self-gravitating collisional systems with a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86 architecture, Advanced Vector eXtensions" Tanikawa, A., K. Yoshikawa, T. Okamoto, and K. Nitadori 2012, New Astronomy, 17, 82

27. "Successive Merger of Multiple Massive Black Holes in a Primordial Galaxy" Tanikawa, A. and M. Umemura 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, 728, L31

28. "Mass-Loss Timescale of Star Clusters in an External Tidal Field. II. Effect of Mass Profile of Parent Galaxy" Tanikawa, A. and T. Fukushige 2010, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 62, 1215

29. "Effects of Hardness of Primordial Binaries on the Evolution of Star Clusters" Tanikawa, A. and T. Fukushige 2009, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 61, 721

30. "Mass-Loss Timescale of Star Clusters in an External Tidal Field. I. Clusters on Circular Orbits" Tanikawa, A. and T. Fukushige 2005, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 57, 155

Refereed papers (Co-author, <= 30 authors)

1. "Two unseen massive white dwarf candidates in close binaries", Shiraishi Y., et al., Tanikawa A., et al. arXiv:2509.12808, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan accepted

2. "Rapid formation of a very massive star >50000 Msun and subsequently an IMBH from runaway collisions. Direct N-body and Monte Carlo simulations of dense star clusters", Vergara M. C., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. arXiv:2505.07491, Astronomy & Astrophysics accepted

3. "Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets"
   Sawada R., Kurokawa H., Suwa Y., Taki T., Lee S.-H., Tanikawa A., Science Advances, 11

4. "On the Formation of GW231123 in Population III Star Cluster"
   Liu S., Wang L., Tanikawa A., Wu W., Fujii M. S. 2025, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 993, 30

5. "Double Compact Binary Merger Rate Density in Open Star Clusters: Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs"
   Cary S., M. S. Fujii, L. Wang, A. Tanikawa 2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 989, 105

6. "Unevolved Li-rich stars at low metallicity: a possible formation pathway through novae", Matsuno T., A. Kemp, A. Tanikawa, et al. 2025, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 699, 171

7. "Pair-Instability Gap Black Holes in Population III Star Clusters: Pathways, Dynamics, and Gravitational Wave Implications", Wu, W., L., Wang, S., Liu, Y., Sun, A. Tanikawa, and M. Fujii 2025, The Astrophysical Journal, 986, 163

8. "Gravitational Collapse of White Dwarfs to Neutron Stars. I. From Initial Conditions to Explosions with Neutrino-radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations", Mori, M., R. Sawada, Y. Suwa, A. Tanikawa, K. Kashiyama, and K. Murase 2025, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 77, 127

9. "Merging Hierarchical Triple Black Hole Systems with Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Population III Star Clusters", Liu, S., L. Wang, Y.-M. Hu, A. Tanikawa, and A. A. Trani 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 2281

10. "Simulations predict intermediate-mass black hole formation in globular clusters", Fujii, M. S., L. Wang, A. Tanikawa, Y. Hirai, and T. R. Saitoh, 2024, Science, 384, 1488

11. "Impacts of the 12C(alpha,gamma)16O reaction rate on 56Ni Nucleosynthesis in pair-instability supernovae", Kawashimo, H., R. Sawada, Y. Suwa, T. J. Moriya, A. Tanikawa, and N. Tominaga 2024, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 531, 2786

12. "Spatial and Binary Parameter Distributions of Black Hole Binaries in the Milky Way Detectable with Gaia", Shikauchi, M., D. Tsuna, A. Tanikawa, and N. Kawanaka 2023, The Astrophysical Journal, 953, 52

13. "The impact of stellar evolution on rotating star clusters: the gravothermal-gravogyro catastrophe and the formation of a bar of black holes", Kamlah, A. W. H., R. Spurzem, P. Berczik, M. Arca Sedda, F. Flammini Dotti, N. Neumayer, X. Pang, Q. Shu, A. Tanikawa, and M. Giersz 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 3266

14. "Gravitational wave of intermediate-mass black holes in Population III star clusters", Wang, L., A. Tanikawa, and M. Fujii 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515, 5106

15. "Probe for Type Ia Supernova Progenitor in Decihertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy", Kinugawa, T., H. Takeda, A. Tanikawa, and H. Yamaguchi 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 938, 52

16. "Revisiting the common envelope evolution in binary stars: A new semianalytic model for N -body and population synthesis codes", Trani, A. A., S. Rieder, A. Tanikawa, G. Iorio, R. Martini, G. Karelin, H. Glanz, and S. Portegies Zwart 2022, Physical Review D, 106, 043014

17. "The Double Detonation of a Double-degenerate System, from Type Ia Supernova Explosion to its Supernova Remnant", Ferrand, G., A. Tanikawa, D. C. Warren, S. Nagataki, S. Safi-Harb, and A. Decourchelle 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 930, 92

18. "Detectability of Black Hole Binaries with Gaia: Dependence on Binary Evolution Models", Shikauchi, M., A. Tanikawa, and N. Kawanaka 2022, The Astrophysical Journal, 928, 13

19. "Compact object mergers in hierarchical triples from low-mass young star clusters", Trani, A. A., S. Rastello, U. N. Di Carlo, F. Santoliquido, A. Tanikawa, and M. Mapelli 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511, 1362

20. "The impact of primordial binary on the dynamical evolution of intermediate massive star clusters", Wang, L., A. Tanikawa, and M. S. Fujii 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509, 4713

21. "On the population III binary black hole mergers beyond the pair-instability mass gap", Hijikawa, K., A. Tanikawa, T. Kinugawa, T. Yoshida, and H. Umeda 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505, L69

22. "Impact of initial mass functions on the dynamical channel of gravitational wave sources", Wang, L., M. S. Fujii, and A. Tanikawa 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504, 5778

23. "Spin misalignment of black hole binaries from young star clusters: implications for the origin of gravitational waves events", Trani, A. A., A. Tanikawa, M. S. Fujii, N. W. C. Leigh, and J. Kumamoto 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504, 910

24. "Merger rate density of binary black holes formed in open clusters", Kumamoto, J., M. S. Fujii, and A. Tanikawa 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495, 4268

25. "Gaia's detectability of black hole-main sequence star binaries formed in open clusters", Shikauchi, M., J. Kumamoto, A. Tanikawa, and M. S. Fujii 2020, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 72, 45

26. "Rapid Transients Originating from Thermonuclear Explosions in Helium White Dwarf Tidal Disruption Events", Kawana, K., K. Maeda, N. Yoshida, and A. Tanikawa 2020, The Astrophysical Journal, 890, L26

27. "Effect of interstellar objects on metallicity of low-mass first stars formed in a cosmological model", Kirihara, T., A. Tanikawa, and T. Ishiyama 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486, 5917

28. "Gravitational-wave emission from binary black holes formed in open clusters", Kumamoto, J., M. S. Fujii, and A. Tanikawa 2019, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486, 3942

29. "Property of young massive clusters in a galaxy-galaxy merger remnant", Matsui, H., A. Tanikawa, and T. R. Saitoh 2019, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71, 19

30. "Fortran interface layer of the framework for developing particle simulator FDPS", Namekata, D., M. Iwasawa, K. Nitadori, A. Tanikawa, T. Muranushi, L. Wang, N. Hosono, K. Nomura, and J. Makino 2018, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 70, 70

31. "Tidal disruption of a white dwarf by a black hole: the diversity of nucleosynthesis, explosion energy, and the fate of debris streams", Kawana, K., A. Tanikawa, and N. Yoshida 2018, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477, 3449

32. "The detection rates of merging binary black holes originating from star clusters and their mass function", Fujii, M. S., A. Tanikawa, and J. Makino 2017, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 69, 94

33. "Unconvergence of very-large-scale giant impact simulations", Hosono, N., M. Iwasawa, A. Tanikawa, K. Nitadori, T. Muranushi, and J. Makino 2017, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 69, 26

34. "Implementation and performance of FDPS: a framework for developing parallel particle simulation codes", Iwasawa, M., A. Tanikawa, N. Hosono, K. Nitadori, T. Muranushi, and J. Makino 2016, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 68, 54

35. "The Critical Mass Ratio of Double White Dwarf Binaries for Violent Merger-induced Type Ia Supernova Explosions", Sato, Y., N. Nakasato, A. Tanikawa, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, and I. Hachisu 2016, The Astrophysical Journal, 821, 67

36. "A Systematic Study of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers: Mass Combinations for Type Ia Supernovae", Sato, Y., N. Nakasato, A. Tanikawa, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, and I. Hachisu 2015, The Astrophysical Journal, 807, 105

Refereed papers (Co-authors, > 30 authors)

1. "Gravitational wave astronomy with TianQin", Li E.-K., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2025, Reports on Progress in Physics, 88, 056901

2. "JASMINE: Near-infrared astrometry and time-series photometry science", Kawata, D., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2024, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 76, 386

3. "Gravitational wave physics and astronomy in the nascent era", Arimoto, M., H. Asada, M. et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2023, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2023, 10A103

4. "An optical search for transients lasting a few seconds", Richmond, M. W., M., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2020, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 72, 3

Submitted papers

1. "GW231123 Formation from Population III Stars: Isolated Binary Evolution", Tanikawa A. et al. arXiv:2508.01135

Proceedings (Lead author)

1. "Concluding Remarks - II", Tanikawa, A. 2024, The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects - VI, 48

2. "Double white dwarf mergers and type Ia supernovae", Tanikawa, A. 2024, The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects - VI, 41

3. "Progenitor and explosion models of type Ia supernovae", Tanikawa, A. 2021, The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects V, 2-7, 46

4. "Explosive nucleosynthesis in tidal disruption events of massive white dwarfs, and their debris", Tanikawa, A., Y. Sato, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, N. Nakasato, and I. Hachisu 2017, New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics, 324, 136

5. "Successive merger of multiple massive black holes in a primordial galaxy and its effect on the galactic structure", Tanikawa, A. and M. Umemura 2012, First Stars IV - from Hayashi to the Future -, 1480, 430

6. "Successive Mergers of Multiple Massive Black Holes in a Primordial Galaxy", Tanikawa, A. and M. Umemura 2010, First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade, 1294, 242

7. "Effects of Hardness of Primordial Binaries on Evolution of Star Clusters", Tanikawa, A. and T. Fukushige 2008, Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, 246, 251

Proceedings (Co-author)

1. "Gravitational Wave Astronomy With TianQin" Li E.-K., et al., Tanikawa A., et al. 2024, TianQin Gravitational Wave Whitepaper (arXiv:2409.19665)

2. "High Performance Gravitational N-body Simulations on Supercomputer Fugaku" Ishiyama T., Yoshikawa K., Tanikawa A. 2022, International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region, Online

3. "Formation of binary black holes in star clusters as gravitational wave sources" Kumamoto J., Fujii M. S. Tanikawa A. 2020, Journal of Physics Conference Series, 1468, 012223

4. "Unexpectedly high formation rate of merging binary black holes in open clusters", Kumamoto, J., M. S. Fujii, and A. Tanikawa 2020, Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe, 351, 204

5. "Phantom-GRAPE : A Fast Numerical Library to Perform N-body Calculations", Yoshikawa, K. and A. Tanikawa 2018, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, 2, 231

6. "The Critical Mass Ratio of Violent Merger-Induced Type Ia Supernovae", Sato, Y., N. Nakasato, A. Tanikawa, K. Nomoto, K. Maeda, and I. Hachisu 2017, 14th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC2016), 020505

7. "FDPS: a novel framework for developing high-performance particle simulation codes for distributed-memory systems" Iwasawa M., Tanikawa A., Hosono N., Nitadori K., Muranushi T., Makino J. 2015, WOLFHPC’15 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and High-Level Frameworks for High Performance Computing, 1

8. "Development of a real-time data processing system for a prototype of the Tomo-e Gozen wide field CMOS camera", Ohsawa, R., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2016, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV, 9913, 991339

9. "Development of a prototype of the Tomo-e Gozen wide-field CMOS camera", Sako, S., et al., A. Tanikawa, et al. 2016, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 9908, 99083P

10. "Mass-Loss Timescale of Star Cluster in External Tidal Field", Fukushige, T. and A. Tanikawa 2008, Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, 246, 191

Articles for non-specialists

1. "The hydrodynamics of double white dwarf mergers" A. Tanikawa 2026, Encyclopedia of Astrophysics, 3, 113

2. "見えない天体ブラックホールを探す" 谷川衝 2025, 宇宙NOW, 420, 3

3. "Ia型超新星と二重白色矮星の数値的研究" 谷川衝 2020, 天文月報, 113, 22

Textbooks

1. "Excel/Googleスプレッドシートで学ぶデータサイエンスの基礎" 徳野淳子, 田中武之, 谷川衝 2025, 近代科学社

Ph.D Thesis

• "Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters with Many Primordial Binaries" Tanikawa A. 2008, Doctroral thesis, University of Tokyo