X線観測を中心に、飛翔体を用いた太陽物理学の研究を行なっています。 「ひので」、「ようこう」、SDOなどの衛星に搭載されたX線望遠鏡やEUV望遠鏡をはじめとする、飛翔体観測機器のデータを用いて、太陽フレアで発生するプラズマ粒子の爆発的な加熱と加速や、それらの惑星間空間への影響など、コロナ中のプラズマ活動現象の理解をめざします。 また、「ようこう」の硬X線望遠鏡HXTや「ひので」のX線望遠鏡XRTなど、新しい観測を可能とする装置開発を手がけており、現在は、将来の太陽高エネルギープラズマの研究に向けた、高空間分解能・低散乱性能を持つX線斜入射ミラーや、光子計測型の高速X線ピクセル検出器などの開発研究、および将来の飛翔体ミッションの検討を進めています。 I have been engaged in solar physics research with space and sub-orbital observations chiefly in X-ray wavelengths. By use of data from instruments such as X-ray or EUV telescopes aboard Hinode, Yohkoh, and SDO, I aim to understand plasma activities in the solar corona, including explosive heating and acceleration of coronal plasmas during flares and their interplanetary consequences. Meanwhile, I have participated in the development of instruments which make possible new observations of the solar corona; e.g., Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) aboard Yohkoh and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard Hinode. Currently, I am working on research and development of grazing-incidence X-ray mirrors (Wolter mirrors) of high spatial resolution/low scattering performance as well as photon-counting-type high-speed X-ray pixel detectors, together with studies on future space solar X-ray missions.
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年
SPIE, Community Champion,; for efforts on behalf of the optics and photonics communityTaro Sakao
2021年
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Group Achievement Honor Award,; for outstanding execution of the CLASP2 sounding rocket missionChromospheric LAyer SpectroPolarimeter-2 (CLASP2) Team
Kubo, M.   Kano, R.   Kobayashi, K.   Bando, T.   Narukage, N.   Ishikawa, R.   Tsuneta, S.   Katsukawa, Y.   Ishikawa, S.   Suematsu, Y.   Hara, H.   Shimizu, T.   Sakao, T.   Ichimoto, K.   Goto, M.   Holloway, T.   Winebarger, A.   Cirtain, J.   De Pontieu, B.   Casini, R.   Auchère, F.   Trujillo Bueno, J.   Manso Sainz, R.   Belluzzi, L.   Asensio Ramos, A.   Štěpán, J.   Carlsson, M.   
ASP Conf. Ser. 489 "Solar Polarization 7" 489 307-317 2014年10月
A sounding-rocket experiment called the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter (CLASP) is presently under development to measure the linear polarization profiles in the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly alpha) line at 121.567 nm. CLASP is a vacuum-U...
Particle acceleration is one of the most significant features that are ubiquitous among space and cosmic plasmas. It is most prominent during flares in the case of the Sun, with which huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation and high-energy parti...
N. Narukage   T. Sakao   R. Kano   M. Shimojo   A. Winebarger   M. Weber   K. K. Reeves   
Solar Physics 289(3) 1029-1042 2014年3月 [査読有り]
The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite is an X-ray imager that observes the solar corona with the capability of diagnosing coronal temperatures from less than 1 MK to more than 10 MK. To make full use of this capability, Narukage e...