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Curriculum Vitae (including the publication list)


Astrophysics

Powerpoint presentations

Accretion Disk Spectra in Galactic Black Hole Candidates and Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
COSPAR meeting, January, 2005, in India

Recent results from the INTEGRAL satellite
Presented at the CANGAROO team meeting in December 2003 at Kyoto University.

Chandra and ESO/NTT observation of the Galactic plane
Presented at NASDA and ICRR in December 2003.

X-ray emission from the Galactic plane
Presented at the Vulcano meeting (multi-frequency observation of high energy objects) in May 2003.

Accretion disk spectra of Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and Galactic s\uperluminal jet sources
Presented at the Vulcano meeting (multi-frequency observation of high energy objects) in May 2003.

Status of the INTEGRAL satellite
Presented at Kyoto University, ISAS and ICRR during my visit to Japan in March 2003.

Galactic X-ray Survey
X-ray All Sky Survey meeting, in September 2002, Sandander, Spain.

Accretion Disk Spectra of the Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Spiral Galaxies and Galactic Superluminal Jet Sources
Presented at the ISDC Science seminer on May 23, 2002.

Chandra Deep Observation on the Galactic Plane
Presented at the XMM meeting in November 2001, Updated for the ISDC Seminer on Feb 28, 2002

X-ray Spectral Observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates
Presented at the "Black Hole Astrophysics 2002" Meeting in Korea, and at a Cosmic Ray Laboratory seminer in Kyoto University in January 2002.

Recent Conference Papers and Posters


"X-ray Observations of Galactic Black Hole Candidates", review talk at the "Black Hole Astrophyscis 2002" meeting in Pohang, Korea, Jan 9-12, 2002

"ASCA Slew Survey", poster paper for the "MAXI workshop on AGN Variability" meeting in March 10 to 11, 2001, in Nikko, Japan ( ps file for the large poster, the small handout [only size different]), or the proceeding manuscript.
"Chandra ACIS-I Deep Exposure on the Galactic Plane and Origin of the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission", poster paper for the "New Century of X-ray Astronomy" meeting in March 6 to 8, 2001, in Yokohama, Japan ( ps file for the large poster or the small handout [only size different]).
"Accretion Disk Spectra of the Ultra-luminous Compact X-ray Sources in Nearby Spiral Galaxies and the Super-luminal Jet Sources", in the proceedings of the fourth INTEGRAL meeting in September 2000 in Alicante, Spain
"Accretion Disk Spectra of the Ultra-luminous Compact X-ray Sources in Nearby Spiral Galaxies and the Super-luminal Jet Sources", in the proceedings of the third Microquasar workship in September 2000 in Granada, Spain (actually, this is a shorter version of the INTEGRAL paper above)
"XTE Scan Observations of the Galactic Center Diffse X-ray Emission", in the Proceedings of "Heating and Acceleration in the Universe", 17 - 19 March, 1999, in Tokyo.
"X-ray Observations of Black Hole Binaries and Accretion Disk Parameters", in the Proceedings of "Disk Instabilities in Close Binary Systems -- 25 years of the Disk Instability Model", Oct 27 - 30, 1998, in Kyoto.
"X-ray Energy Spectra of Galactic Black Hole Candidates", in the Proceedings of "High Energy Processes in Accreting Black Holes", ASP Conference Series 161, ed. Juri Poutanen & RolandSvensson, p. 39, June, 1998, in Sweden
"ASCA Observation of the Superluminal Jet Source GRS1915+105" , 1997, in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium "Hot Universe", at IAU General Assenbly in Kyoto, August, 1997 (original poster paper is here (gzipped ps file)).
"Properties of the Black Hole Candidates Observed with Ginga and ASCA" 1997, in "All-sky X-ray Observations in the Next Decade", ed. M. Matsuoka and N. Kawai, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), p.69
"X-ray Spectroscopy of the Binary Sources with ASCA -- Black Hole Candidates and Super-soft Sources" 1997, in "X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of Cosmic Hot Plasmas", ed. F. Makino and K. Mitsuda, Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, p. 427
"X-ray Spectroscopy of the Super Soft Source RXJ0925.7-475" 1996, in "Super-soft X-ray Sources", ed. J. Greiner, Lecture Note in Physics, Springer, p. 91
"Timing Analysis of SMC X-1" presented at the Japanese ASCA science meeting at Hakone, March 1995
"X-ray Spectral Properties of Cyg X-1" 1997, Adv. Space Res. vol. 19, No. 1, p. 5 (COSPAR meeting in Humburg, July 1994)

Other Notes

Bugs in the GRAD model (January 2001)

Projects

Astro-E2

xrsqlp -- An ftool to display the output event file of xrssim

mkxrsreg.pl -- A perl script to make XRS region file

ASTRO-E2 XRS event simulation using xrssim

XRS response for extended sources

Astro-E Project Data Management Plan (PDMP) -- obsolete, but just for a reference

INTEGRAL

Easy INTEGRAL Analysis (2005-03-09)

Combining ISGR spectra using mathpha (2003-03-28)

Test of SPI Simulated Response Matrixes (2000-11-7)

On the SPI Spectral Fitting (2001-9-19)

ASCA

ASCA attitude leapsecond bug fixed

ASCA GIS final calibration


Miscellaneous

Linux for X-ray Astronomers
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