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A research paper on comets by a graduate of our laboratory has been published!

A research paper on hydrogen originating from comets, authored by Dr. Yudai Suzuki (a 2022 graduate of the Kazuo Yoshioka Laboratory, currently a postdoctoral researcher at ISAS/JAXA), Associate Professor Kazuo Yoshioka, Professor Ichiro Yoshikawa, and others, has been published. Comets are considered one of the potential sources of Earth’s water, and understanding them is essential for unraveling the history of terrestrial evolution. Water is released from the nuclei of comets, and observing the hydrogen produced through its dissociation is a valuable method for understanding cometary activity. In this study, Dr. Suzuki developed a radiative transfer model of ultraviolet emissions from hydrogen that includes the physical process of “multiple scattering.” He demonstrated that the model successfully reproduces the comet observations made by the ultraviolet space telescope Hisaki, developed primarily by the Yoshioka and Yoshikawa laboratories. The study also used this model to evaluate the observational capabilities of the hydrogen detector onboard the upcoming Comet Interceptor mission, which the Yoshioka Laboratory is leading. [Paper Information]Y. Suzuki, K. Yoshioka, K. Masunaga, H. Kawakita, Y. Shinnaka, G. Murakami, T. Kimura, F. Tsuchiya, A. Yamazaki, I. Yoshikawa. 2025. Contribution of multiple scattering to the Lyman alpha radiance distribution in cometary comae. Icarus, 441, 116720. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116720

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A paper on the EQUUREUS/PHOENIX ultraviolet imaging device developed by our laboratory has been published.

A paper on the ultra-compact probe EQUUREUS and its ultraviolet imaging device PHOENIX, developed by Assistant Professor Masaki Kuwahara of Rikkyo University and Associate Professor Kazuo Yoshioka of our laboratory, has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. Using a tiny telescope the size of a can of coffee, we have successfully imaged the entire Earth’s plasma sphere!   【The article information】 Kuwabara, M., Yoshioka, K., Hikida, R.,Murakami, G., Yoshikawa, I., Nakajima, S., et al. (2025). Global and sequentialimaging observation of the Earth’s plasmasphere by PHOENIX onboard EQUULEUS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 130,e2024JA033389. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JA033389      

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