The zodiacal light (ZL) is sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust (IPD) in the optical wavelengths. The spatial distribution of IPD in the Solar system may hold an important key to understanding the evolution of the Solar system and ...
Kohji Takimoto   Shuji Matsuura   Kei Sano   Richard M. Feder   
The Astrophysical Journal 944(2) 229 2023年2月 [査読有り]
We report near-infrared polarization of the zodiacal light (ZL) measured from space by the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) on board the Cosmic Background Explorer in photometric bands centered at 1.25, 2.2, and 3.5 μm. To constrain ...
Kohji Takimoto   Toshiaki Arai   Shuji Matsuura   James J. Bock   Asantha Cooray   Richard M. Feder   Phillip M. Korngut   Alicia Lanz   Dae Hee Lee   Toshio Matsumoto   Chi H. Nguyen   Yosuke Onishi   Kei Sano   Mai Shirahata   Aoi Takahashi   Kohji Tsumura   Michael Zemcov   
The Astrophysical Journal 926(1) 6-6 2022年2月 [査読有り]
We report the first measurement of the zodiacal light (ZL) polarization spectrum in the near-infrared between 0.8 and 1.8 mu m. Using the low-resolution spectrometer on board the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment, calibrated for absolute spect...
Kohji Takimoto   Seung Cheol Bang   Priyadarshini Bangale   James J. Bock   Asantha Cooray   Kenta Danbayashi   Richard M. Feder   Masaki Furutani   Kevin Gates   Ryo Hashimoto   Viktor Hristov   Arisa Kida   Phillip Korngut   Alicia Lanz   Dae Hee Lee   Lunjun Liu   Peter Mason   Toshio Matsumoto   Shuji Matsuura   Jodi Ann Morgan   Chi H. Nguyen   Won Kee Park   Dorin Patru   James Parkus   Shohta Sakai   Kei Sano   Hiroko Suzuki   Aoi Takahashi   Sohta Tatsu   Kohji Tsumura   Takehiko Wada   Shiang Yu Wang   Yasuhiro Yamada   Michael Zemcov   
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 11443 2020年
The total integrated emission from galaxies, known as the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL), is an important observable for understanding the history of star formation over the history of the universe. Spatial fluctuations in the infrared EBL a...
Chi H. Nguyen   Benjamin Stewart   Seung-Cheol Bang   James J. Bock   Asantha Cooray   Kenta Danbayashi   Ambar DeSantiago   Viktor Hristov   Tomoya Kojima   Phillip Korngut   Kevin Kruse   Alicia Lanz   Dae-Hee Lee   Lunjun Liu   Jared Loewenthal   Peter Mason   Toshio Matsumoto   Shuji Matsuura   Ryo Ohta   Christian Pape   Won-Kee Park   Dorin Patru   James Parkus   Mark Peryer   Kei Sano   Aoi Takahashi   Kohji Takimoto   Kohji Tsumura   Takehiko Wada   Shiang-Yu Wang   Yasuhiro Yamada   Michael Zemcov   
SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2018: OPTICAL, INFRARED, AND MILLIMETER WAVE 10698 2018年
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the integrated emission from all objects outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Imprinted by the history of stellar emission, the EBL in the near infrared traces light back to the birth of the first stars in t...