CV Curriculum Vitae
Name
Tadayuki Takahashi (Birth Date: February 8, 1959)
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), JAXA
Academic Record
| Mar. 1982 | Graduate from the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo |
| Apr. 1982 - Mar. 1987 | Graduate School in the University of Tokyo, Department of Physics (High Energy Physics) |
| Mar. 1987 | Ph.D. conferred, thesis entitled "Study of Higer Order QCD Effects in e+/e- Hadronic Annihilations",University of Tokyo |
Current Positions
- Director, Department of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Principle Investigator (PI) /Project Manager of ASTRO-H,
- Professor, Department of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
Professional Record
| Oct. 2003 - present | Professor in the Department of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, |
| Jul. 2001 - Sep. 2003 | Professor in the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Center for Advanced Sateltdte Technology Center |
| Professor in the University of Tokyo, Department of Physics | |
| Apr. 1997 - Jun. 2001 | Associate Professor in the University of Tokyo, Department of Physics |
| Apr. 1995 - Jun. 2001 | Associate Professor in the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, High Energy Astrophysics |
| Aug. 1988 - Mar. 1995 | Research Associate (Instructor) in the University of Tokyo, Department of Physics |
| Apr. 1988 - July 1988 | Research Fellow in Department of Physics,University of Tokyo |
| Apr. 1986 - Mar. 1988 | Research Fellow of the Japan Socity for the Promotion of Science (JSPS Research Fellow) |
| Nov. 1983 - Dec. 1986 | Visiting Researcher in Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA |
Research Experience
- Development of well-type phoswich detector (Welcome-I) and hard X-ray observations with balloons (1988-1994);
- X-ray observations with ASCA (1993-present);
- Study of Active Galactic Nuclei (1993-present);
- Study of cosmic X-ray background (1993-present);
- Multi-frequency observations of Blazars (1995-present);
- Study of non-thermal emission from SNRs and gamma-ray binaries (2000 –present);
- Hard X-ray detector development for Astro-E and Astro-E2 (1993-present);
- Development of Semiconductor Compton Camera based on Si and CdTe for future X-ray/Gamma-ray satellites (1995-present);
- Development of the ASTRO-H satellite as the PI/Project Manager (2008-present)
Professional Society Memberships
- Astronomical Society of Japan
- Physical Society of Japan
Selected Publications
- T. Takahashi et al. The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory, SPIE, 8443, 2012
- T. Takahashi, T. Kishishita, Y. Uchiyama, T. Tanaka, K. Yamaoka, D. Khangulyan, F.A. Aharonian, V. Bosch-Ramon, J.A.Hinton, Study of the Spectral and Temporal Characteristics of X-Ray Emission of the Gamma-Ray Binary LS 5039 with Suzaku, Astrophysical Journal, 697, pp. 592-600,2009
- S. Takeda, H. Aono, S. Okuyama, S. Ishikawa, H. Odaka, S. Watanabe, M. Kokubun, T. Takahashi, K. Nakazawa, H. Tajima, N. Kawachi, Experimental results of the gamma-ray imaging capability with a Si/CdTe semiconductor Compton camera, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., 56, 3, PP. 783 – 790,2008
- T. Takahashi, T. Tanaka T., Y. Uchiyama, J.S. Hiraga, K. Nakazawa, S. Watanabe,A. Bamba A., J.P. Hughes, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, M. Kokubun, K. Koyama, K. Mori, R. Petre, H. Takahashi, Y. Tsuboi, Measuring the Broad-Band X-Ray Spectrum from 400eV to 40keV in the Southwest Part of the Supernova Remnant RXJ1713.7-3946, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.60, No.SP1, pp.S131-S140, 2008
- Y. Uchiyama, F. A. Aharonian, T. Tanaka, T. Takahashi, Y. Maeda, Extremely fast acceleration of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant, Nature, 449, 576-578, 2007
- T. Takahashi et al., Hard X-ray Detector on Board Suzaku, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 59, pp.35-51, 2007
- Y. Uchiyama, F. Aharonian, T. Takahashi, Fine-structure in the nonthermal X-ray emission of SNR RX J1713.7-3946 revealed by Chandra, A&A 400, pp. 567-574, 2003
- T. Takahashi et al. Hard X-ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors for the NEXT mission (Si/CdTe Compton Camera), New Astronomy Reviews, 48, pp. 309-313, 2004
- T. Takahashi and S. Watanabe, Recent Progress in CdTe and CdZnTe detectors, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 950-959, 2001
- T. Takahashi et al. Complex Spectral Variability from Intensive Multi-wavelength Monitoring of Mrk 421 in 1998, Astro Physical Journal, 542, L105-L109, 2000
- Y. Ueda et al., A population of faint galaxies that contribute to the cosmic X-ray background, Nature, 391, 866, 1998
- T. Takahashi, et al, , ASCA Observation of an X-Ray/TeV Flare from the BL Lacertae Object Markarian 421, Astro Physical Journall, 470, L89-L92 ,1996