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Lead Author Papers
"Momentum Space Resolution Dependence in Boltzmann Neutrino Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae"
Ryuichiro Akaho
Submitted to MNRAS, arXiv:2607.12891
What's new: momentum space resolution study of Boltzmann neutrino transport in 2D supernova simulations"Bifurcated Impact of Neutrino Fast Flavor Conversion on Core-collapse Supernovae Informed by Multi-angle Neutrino Radiation Hydrodynamics"
Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami, Shun Furusawa, Akira Harada, Hirotada Okawa, Hideo Matsufuru, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review Letters 136, 191002 (2026) Featured in Physics Viewpoint Press release in EurekAlert プレスリリース
What's new: investigate the effect of the neutrino fast flavor conversion by implementing multi-angle subgrid modeling onto 2D simulations"Comparative Testing of Subgrid Models for Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions in Core-collapse Supernova Simulations"
Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 112, 043015 (2025)
What's new: implementation of the neutrino fast flavor conversion subgrid model onto Boltzmann radiation-hydro code, and detailed comparison in 1D“Detectability of Late-time Supernova Neutrinos with Fallback Accretion onto Protoneutron star”
Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Thierry Foglizzo
The Astrophysical Journal 960 116 (2024) Featured in AAS Nova
What's new: prediction of neutrino signals due to the fallback accretion onto cold proto-neutron star"Collisional and Fast Neutrino Flavor Instabilities in Two-dimensional Core-collapse Supernova Simulation with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport"
Ryuichiro Akaho, Jiabao Liu, Hiroki Nagakura, Masamichi Zaizen, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 109, 023012 (2024)
What's new: post-process analyses of the collisional & fast neutrino flavor instabilities in 2D core-collapse supernova model“Protoneutron Star Convection Simulated with a New General Relativistic Boltzmann Neutrino Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code”
Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami, Hirotada Okawa, Shun Furusawa, Hideo Matsufuru, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, and Shoichi Yamada
The Astrophysical Journal 944 60 (2023)
What's new: development of the general relativistic Boltzmann radiation hydro code and application to the proto-neutron star convection simulations"Multidimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Code in Full General Relativity for Core-collapse Simulations"
Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Wakana Iwakami, Hirotada Okawa, Shun Furusawa, Hideo Matsufuru, and Shoichi Yamada
The Astrophysical Journal 909 210 (2021)
What's new: development of the general relativistic Boltzmann neutrino transport code
Co-author Papers
"Numerical Studies of Accretion Flows onto a Neutron Star Engulfed in a Massive Star"
Daiyu Sakurai, Ryuichiro Akaho, Shoichi Yamada
Submitted to MNRAS, arXiv:2604.19236
What's new: wind-tunnel simulation of the neutron star accretion engulfed in a massive star, fully resolving the neutron star scale using the domain-decomposition"Comprehensive neutrino light curves and spectra: from pre-supernova evolution to early supernova phase"
Chinami Kato, Hiroki Nagakura, Akira Ito, Ryosuke Hirai, Shun Furusawa, Takashi Yoshida, Ryuichiro Akaho
Accepted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, arXiv:2603.09810
What's new: sequential supernova neutrino signals starting from the presupernova phase"A Dual-Resolution Prescription in the S_N Method for Boltzmann Neutrino Transport I: Proof of Principle and the Resolution of Collision Term"
Akira Ito, Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Shoichi Yamada
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 11 (2026)
What's new: propose a new scheme for the Boltzmann neutrino transport, employing different momentum angle resolution between advection and collision terms"Neutrino Constraints on Black Hole Formation in M31"
Yudai Suwa, Ryuichiro Akaho, Yosuke Ashida, Akira Harada, Masayuki Harada, Yusuke Koshio, Masamitsu Mori, Fumi Nakanishi, Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Roger A. Wendell, Masamichi Zaizen
The Open Journal of Astrophysics, Vol.8 id.167 (2025)
What's new: nuclear equation of state constraint based on non-neutrino detection from the black hole formation candidate event in M31"Asymmetric emissions of neutrinos in the cooling of rotating proto-neutron stars"
Laura Barrio, Kotaro Fujisawa, Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 112, 083039 (2025)
What's new: asymmetric neutrino emission from the rotating proto-neutron star (PNS) and the gravitational memory"Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande.VI. A Practical Data Analysis Technique Considering Realistic Experimental Backgrounds"
Fumi Nakanishi, Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Masayuki Harada, Yusuke Koshio, Ryuichiro Akaho, Yosuke Ashida, Akira Harada, Masamitsu Mori, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Yudai Suwa, Roger A. Wendell, Masamichi Zaizen
The Astrophysical Journal 992 27 (2025)
What's new: new backward-time analysis method for SuperK with the realistic background noise taken into account"Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande. V. Distance Estimation with Neutrinos Alone"
Yudai Suwa, Akira Harada, Masamitsu Mori, Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Ryuichiro Akaho, Masayuki Harada, Yusuke Koshio, Fumi Nakanishi, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Roger A. Wendell
The Astrophysical Journal 980 117 (2025)
What's new: analysis pipeline to infer the supernova distance only from neutrino signals"Quasi-steady evolution of fast neutrino-flavor conversions"
Jiabao Liu, Hiroki Nagakura, Masamichi Zaizen, Lucas Johns, Ryuichiro Akaho, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 111, 023051 (2025)
What's new: behavior of the fast flavor conversion (FFC) with constantly injected neutrinos that generates persistent appearance of the flavor instability"Impacts of Black-Hole-Forming Supernova Explosions on the Diffuse Neutrino Background"
Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Ryuichiro Akaho, Yosuke Ashida, Takuji Tsujimoto
The Astrophysical Journal 975 71 (2024)
What's new: diffuse supernova neutrino background (DSNB) signal, taking into account the accretion powered emission from the black hole forming progenitors"Muon-induced collisional flavor instability in core-collapse supernova"
Jiabao Liu, Hiroki Nagakura, Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Ito, Masamichi Zaizen, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 110, 043039 (2024)
What's new: resonance-like collisional flavor instability (CFI) caused by the presence of muons"Physical mechanism of core-collapse supernovae that neutrinos drive"
Shoichi Yamada, Hiroki Nagakura, Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Harada, Shun Furusawa, Wakana Iwakami, Hirotada Okawa, Hideo Matsufuru, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi
Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, Physical and biological sciences 100(3) (2024)
Review paper of core-collapse supernovae"Universality of the Neutrino Collisional Flavor Instability in Core Collapse Supernovae"
Jiabao Liu, Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Ito, Hiroki Nagakura, Masamichi Zaizen, Shoichi Yamada
Physical Review D 108, 123024 (2023)
What's new: systematic analyses of the neutrino collisional flavor instability (CFI) in 1D supernova models“Principal-Axis Analysis of the Eddington Tensor for the Early Post-Bounce Phase of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae”
Wakana Iwakami, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Ryuichiro Akaho, Hirotada Okawa, Shun Furusawa, Hideo Matsufuru, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, and Shoichi Yamada
The Astrophysical Journal 933 91 (2022)
What's new: comparison of the moment closures in rotating supernovae