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A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE ASTEROIDS IN THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM WITH AKARI

  • Usui, F.;Kuroda, D.;Muller, T.G.;Hasegawa, S.;Ishiguro, M.;Ootsubo, T.;Ueno, M.;AKARI SOSOS team, AKARI SOSOS team
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.153-159
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    • 2012
  • We constructed an unbiased asteroid catalog from the mid-infrared part of the All-Sky Survey with the Infrared Camera (IRC) on board AKARI. About 20% of the point source events recorded in the IRC All-Sky Survey observations were not used for the IRC Point Source Catalog in its production process because of a lack of multiple detection by position. Asteroids, which are moving objects on the celestial sphere, are included in these "residual events" We identified asteroids out of the residual events by matching them with the positions of known asteroids. For the identified asteroids, we calculated the size and albedo based on the Standard Thermal Model. Finally we had a new brand of asteroid catalog, which contains 5,120 objects, about twice as many as the IRAS asteroid catalog.

THE AKARI DEEP FIELD SOUTH: A NEW HOME FOR MULTIWAVELENGTH EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY

  • Clements, David L.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2012
  • The importance of multiwavelength astronomical surveys is discussed in the context of galaxy evolution. The AKARI Deep Field South (ADF-S) is a new, well placed survey field that is already the subject of studies at a wide range of wavelengths. A number of ADF-S observational programmes are discussed and the prospects for the ADF-S as a future resource for extragalactic astronomy is explored.

A MULTICOLOR STAR-GALAXY SEPARATION FROM THE NIR AND MIR AKARI DATA

  • Solarz, A.;Pollo, A.;Takeuchi, T.T.;Pepiak, A.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.151-152
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    • 2012
  • We present the method of star/galaxy separation based on the support vector machines (SVM) in the data from the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Deep survey collected through nine AKARI / IRC bands from 2 to $24{\mu}m$, with a classification accuracy of 93 %.

A WISE View of E+A Galaxies

  • Ko, Jong-Wan;Hwang, Ho-Seong;Sohn, Young-Jong
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.66.1-66.1
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    • 2011
  • E+A galaxies are interpreted as post-starburst systems because of strong Balmer absorption lines but any emission lines indicating the lack of current star formation activities, thus they are one of key populations for understanding how star formation activities evolve in galaxies. We present mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions of E+A galaxies using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) preliminary released data. Furthermore, we investigate the role of environment with respect to the MIR properties of E+A galaxies.

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DEBRIS DISKS EXPLORED BY AKARI AND IRSF

  • Kiriyama, Y.;Ishihara, D.;Nagayama, T.;Kaneda, H.;Oyabu, S.;Onaka, T.;Fujiwara, H.
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.181-182
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    • 2012
  • Using the AKARI mid-infrared all-sky survey catalogue, we are searching for debris disks which are important objects as an observational clue to on-going planetary system formation. Debris disk candidates are selected through a significant excess of the measured flux over the predicted flux for the stellar photospheric emission at $18{\mu}m$. The fluxes were originally estimated based on the near-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of central stars constructed from the 2MASS J-, H-, and Ks-band fluxes. However, we found that in many cases the 2MASS photometry has large errors due to saturation in the central part of a star image. Therefore we performed follow-up observations with the IRSF 1.4m near-infrared telescope in South Africa to obtain accurate fluxes in the J-, H-, and Ks-bands. As a result, we have succeeded in improving the SEDs of the central stars. This improvement of the SEDs allows us to make more reliable selection of the candidates.

THERMAL MODELS AND FAR INFRARED EMISSION OF ASTEROIDS

  • KIM SAM;LEE HYUNG MOK;NAKAGAWA TAKAO;HASEGAWA SUNAO
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.21-31
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    • 2003
  • ASTRO-F /FIS will carry out all sky survey in the wavelength from 50 to 200 ${\mu}m$. At far infrared, stars and galaxies may not be good calibration sources because the IR fluxes could be sensitive to the dust shell of stars and star formation activities of galaxies. On the other hand, asteroids could be good calibration sources at far infrared because of rather simple spectral energy distribution. Recent progresses in thermal models for asteroids enable us to calculate the far infrared flux fairly accurately. We have derived the Bond albedos and diameters for 559 asteroids based on the IRAS and ground based optical data. Using these thermal parameters and standard thermal model, we have calculated the spectral energy distributions of asteroids from 10 to 200 ${\mu}m$. We have found that more than $70\%$ of our sample asteroids have flux errors less than $10\%$ within the context of the best fitting thermal models. In order to assess flux uncertainties due to model parameters, we have computed SEDs by varing external parameters such as emissivity, beaming parameter and phase integral. We have found that about 100 asteroids can be modeled to be better than $5.8\%$ of flux uncertainties. The systematic effects due to uncertainties in phase integral are not so important.

Near-IR Polarimetric Study of N159/160 Star-Forming Regions

  • Kim, Jaeyeong;Pak, Soojong;Jeong, Woong-Seob;Park, Won-Kee
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.79.1-79.1
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    • 2014
  • We present the result of near-infrared (near-IR) imaging polarimetry of star-forming regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We compiled near-IR photometric and polarimetric data of N159/160 regions. The photometric and polarimetric data were simultaneously obtained in J, H, and Ks bands using SIRPOL, an imaging polarimeter of the InfraRed Survey Facility (IRSF), in 2007 February. We measured Stokes parameters of point-like sources to derive their degree of polarization and polarization position angles. In this poster, we present polarization properties of these star-forming regions. We also discuss the polarization structure in these regions compared with mid-infrared dust emission structure from the Spitzer SAGE survey.

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Identifying Cluster Candidates in CFHTLS W2 Field

  • Paek, Insu;Im, Myungshin;Kim, Jae-Woo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.59.2-59.2
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    • 2018
  • Recent studies of galaxy clusters have shown that the galaxy clusters in dense environment tend to have lower star formation rate in local universe with z < 1. However, this correlation is not significant in galaxy clusters with z > 1. The study of galaxy clusters around z=1 can yield insight into cosmological galaxy evolution. Nevertheless, the identification of galaxy clusters beyond the scope of immediate local universe requires wide field data in optical and near-infrared bands. By incorporating data from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey(CFHTLS) and Infrared Medium-Deep Survey(IMS), the photometric redshifts of galaxies in CFHTLS W2 field were calculated. Using spatial distribution and photometric redshifts, the galaxies in the field were divided into redshift bins. The image of each redshift bin was analyzed by measuring the number density within proper distance of 1Mpc. By comparing high density regions in consecutive redshift bins, we identified the cluster candidates and mapped the large-scale structure within the CFHTLS W2 field.

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