NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Group Achievement Honor Award,; for successful execution of the CLASP2.1 mission, resulting in the mapping of magnetic effects in the Sun's chromosphere, despite challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemicChromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter-2.1 (CLASP2.1) Team
2021
SPIE, Community Champion,; for efforts on behalf of the optics and photonics communityTaro Sakao
2021
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Group Achievement Honor Award,; for outstanding execution of the CLASP2 sounding rocket missionChromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter-2 (CLASP2) Team
2017
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Director General AwardCLASP sounding rocket team
2008
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), President AwardSolar-B (Hinode) Project [Recipient as the project representative]
Mitsuo Oka Amir Caspi Bin Chen Mark Cheung James Drake Dale Gary Lindsay Glesener Fan Guo Hantao Ji Xiaocan Li Takuma Nakamura Noriyuki Narukage Katharine K. Reeves Pascal Saint-Hilaire Taro Sakao Chengcai Shen Amy WInebarger Thomas Woods
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 55(3) (10pp) Jul 2023
Donguk Song Ryohko Ishikawa Ryouhei Kano David E. McKenzie Javier Trujillo Bueno Frederic Auchere Laurel A. Rachmeler Takenori J. Okamoto Masaki Yoshida Ken Kobayashi Christian Bethge Hirohisa Hara Kazuya Shinoda Toshifumi Shimizu Yoshinori Suematsu Bart De Pontieu Amy Winebarger Noriyuki Narukage Masahito Kubo Taro Sakao Andres Asensio Ramos Luca Belluzzi Jiri Stepan Mats Carlsson Tanausu del Pino Aleman Ernest Alsina Ballester Genevieve D. Vigil Jorrit Leenaarts
SOLAR PHYSICS 297(10) Oct 2022 [Refereed]
We have developed an advanced UV spectropolarimeter called Chromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter (CLASP2), aimed at achieving very high accuracy measurements (<0.1% at 3 sigma) of the linear (Q/I and U/I) and circular (V/I) polarizations of the M...
L. A. Rachmeler J. Trujillo Bueno D. E. McKenzie R. Ishikawa F. Auchère K. Kobayashi R. Kano T. J. Okamoto C. W. Bethge D. Song E. Alsina Ballester L. Belluzzi T. del Pino Alemán A. Asensio Ramos M. Yoshida T. Shimizu A. Winebarger A. R. Kobelski G. D. Vigil B. De Pontieu N. Narukage M. Kubo T. Sakao H. Hara Y. Suematsu J. Štěpán M. Carlsson J. Leenaarts
The Astrophysical Journal 936(1) 67-67 Aug 2022 [Refereed]
Abstract
The CLASP2 (Chromospheric LAyer Spectro-Polarimeter 2) sounding rocket mission was launched on 2019 April 11. CLASP2 measured the four Stokes parameters of the Mg iih and k spectral region around 2800 Å along a 200″ slit at three locati...
Context. Spatially unresolved observations show that the cooling phase in solar flares can be much longer than theoretical models predict. It has not yet been determined whether this is also the case for different subregions within the flare struc...
Ryohko Ishikawa Javier Trujillo Bueno Tanausu Del Pino Aleman Takenori J. Okamoto David E. McKenzie Frederic Auchere Ryouhei Kano Donguk Song Masaki Yoshida Laurel A. Rachmeler Ken Kobayashi Hirohisa Hara Masahito Kubo Noriyuki Narukage Taro Sakao Toshifumi Shimizu Yoshinori Suematsu Christian Bethge Bart De Pontieu Alberto Sainz Dalda Genevieve D. Vigil Amy Winebarger Ernest Alsina Ballester Luca Belluzzi Jiri Štepan Andres Asensio Ramos Mats Carlsson Jorrit Leenaarts
Approach to understand the solar coronal and chromospheric heating --- from Hinode, IRIS & CLASP to SOLAR-CJapan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)Tsuneta Saku KANO Ryouhei KUBO Masahito ISHIKAWA Ryohko BANDO Takamasa NARUKAGE Noriyuki OKAMOTO Takenori GOTO Motoshi HARA Hirohisa SAKAO Taro ISHIKAWA Shinnosuke SUEMATSU Yoshinori IMADA Shinsuke KATO Yoshiaki IIDA Yusuke GIONO Gabriel YOSHIDA Masaki SONG Donguk TRUJILLO BUENO Javier KOBIKI Toshihiko DE PONTIEU Bart ANTOLIN Patrick LEE Kyoung-Sun TEI Akiko KONO Shunya CARLSSON Mats LEENAARTS Jorrit PEREIRA Tiago
Director General, ISAS