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RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader: Teruaki Enoto (Ph.D.)

Research Summary

Teruaki Enoto (Ph.D.)

Extreme natural phenomena have provided unexplored frontier of our science. Utilizing astronomical radiation measurement techniques, we are trying to solve mysteries of high energy radiations from lightning and thunderstorms. Our newly deployed multi-point observation network is monitoring winter lightning and thunderstorms in the coastal area along the Sea of Japan. Our guiding principle is “collective power of science”, which means a scientific methodology using multiple detector network instead of a single huge detector. This word also implies scientific collaboration not only with researchers but also with citizen supporters. We will apply this idea to making a CubeSat fleet for scalable X-ray astronomical observations.

Main Research Fields

  • Mathematical & Physical Sciences

Related Research Fields

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science
  • Complex Systems
  • Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
  • Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
  • Astronomy
  • Environmental impact assessment

Keywords

  • High-energy atmospheric physics
  • X-ray astronomy
  • CubeSat
  • Neutron star
  • Water resource exploration on the lunar surface

Selected Publications

Papers with an asterisk(*) are based on research conducted outside of RIKEN.

  • 1. Enoto, T., Wada, Y., Furuta, Y., Nakazawa, K., Yuasa, T., Okuda, K., Makishima, K., Sato, M., Sato, Y., Nakano, T., Umemoto, D., Tsuchiya, H.:
    "Photonuclear reactions triggered by lightning discharge"
    Nature 551, 481-484 (2017).
  • 2. Kara, E., Steiner, J. F., Fabian, A. C., Cackett, E. M., Uttley, P., Remillard, R. A., Gendreau, K. C., Arzoumanian, Z., Altamirano, D., Eikenberry, S., Enoto, T., Homan, J., Neilsen, J., Stevens, A. L.:
    "The corona contracts in a black-hole transient"
    Nature 565, 198-201 (2019).
  • 3. *Kimura, M., Isogai, K., Kato, T., Ueda, Y., Nakahira, S., Shidatsu, M., Enoto, T., Hori, T., and Nogami, D., et al.:
    "Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni"
    Nature 529, 54-58 (2016).
  • 4. *Enoto, T., Kisaka, S., and Shibata, S.:
    "Observational diversity of magnetized neutron stars"
    Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 10 (2019).
  • 5. *Enoto, T., Shibata, S., Kitaguchi, T., Suwa, Y., Uchide, T., Nishioka, H., Kisaka, S., Nakano, T., Murakami, H., and Makishima, K.:
    "Magnetar Broadband X-Ray Spectra Correlated with Magnetic Fields: Suzaku Archive of SGRs and AXPs Combined with NuSTAR, Swift, and RXTE"
    The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 231, 21 (2017).
  • 6. Wada, Y., Enoto, T., Nakamura, Y., Furuta, Y., Yuasa,T., Nakazawa, K., Morimoto, T., Sato, M., Matsumoto, T., Yonetoku, D., Sawano, T., Sakai, H., Kamogawa, M., Ushio, T., Makishima, K., and Tsuchiya, H.:
    "Gamma-ray glow preceding downward terrestrial gamma-ray flash"
    Communications Physics 2, Article number: 67 (2019).
  • 7. Wada, Y., Enoto, T., Nakazawa, K., Furuta, Y., Yuasa, T., Nakamura, Y., Morimoto, T., Matsumoto, T., Makishima, K., and Tsuchiya, H.:
    "Downward Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash Observed in a Winter Thunderstorm"
    Physical Review Letters 123, id.061103 (2019).
  • 8. Wada, Y., Bowers, G. S., Enoto, T., Kamogawa, M., Nakamura, Y., Morimoto, T., Smith, D. M., Furuta, Y., Nakazawa, K., Yuasa, T., Matsuki, A., Kubo, M., Tamagawa, T., Makishima, K., and Tsuchiya, H.:
    "Termination of Electron Acceleration in Thundercloud by Intracloud/Intercloud Discharge"
    Geophysical Research Letters 45, 5700-5707 (2018).
  • 9. *Enoto, T., Nakagawa, Y. E., Rea, N., Esposito, P., Gotz, D., Hurley, K., Israel, G. L., Kokubun, M., Makishima, K., Mereghetti, S., Murakami, H., Nakazawa, K., Sakamoto, T., Stella, L., Tiengo, A., Turolla, R., Yamada, S., Yamaoka, K., Yoshida, A., and Zane, S.:
    "Suzaku Observation of the New Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 0501+4516 in Outburst"
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 693, L122-L126 (2009).
  • 10. Tsuchiya, H., Enoto, T., Yamada, S., Yuasa, T., Kawaharada, M., Kitaguchi, T., Kokubun, M., Kato, H., Okano, M., Nakamura, S., and Makishima, K.:
    "Detection of High-Energy Gamma Rays from Winter Thunderclouds"
    Physical Review Letters 99, id. 165002 (2007)

Recent Research Results

Annual research report

Lab Members

Principal investigator

Teruaki Enoto
RIKEN Hakubi Team Leader

Core members

Yo Kato
Research Scientist
Hiroshi Nagaoka
Research Scientist
Mariko Kimura
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Gabriel Sousa Diniz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Masaki Numazawa
Postdoctoral Researcher
Chin-Ping Hu
Visiting Scientist
Yuuki Wada
Visiting Scientist
Kaori Fukaya
Assistant
kentaro Taniguchi
Research Part-time Worker II
Miwa Tsurumi
Research Part-time Worker II

Contact Information

RIKEN Main Research Building 604
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Tel:+81-(0)50-3495-0112
Fax:+81-(0)48-467-4118
Email: teruaki.enoto [at] riken.jp

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