Coordinated Space Observation and Experiment Research Group
Group Director
Kazuo Makishima (D.Sci.)
Our group aims at utilizing the Pressurized Vessel and the Exposed Facility of the Japan Experimental Module "Kobo", which in turn comprises the International Space Station. The utilization of the Exposed Facility has already been initiated by the MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) instrument launched in the summer of 2009, followed by a candidate project, EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory), which is currently being developed under international collaboration. The Pressurized Vessel may be used for a wide variety of micro-gravity researches in RIKEN, such as biomedical studies using microscopes and other means, as wellas material science including protain crystallization.
- Operation and data release of the MAXI mission onboard the International Space Station
- JEM-EUSO(Extreme Universe Space Observatory) mission
- Feasibility study of biomedical and material researches using the microgravity environment
- Serino, M., Yoshida, A., Kawai, N., Nakagawa, Y., Mihara, T., Ueda, Y., Nakahira, S., Eguchi, S., Hiroi, K., et al.:
"Peculiarly Narrow SED of GRB 090926B with MAXI and Fermi/GBM"
Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63S, 1035 (2011) - Sugizaki, M., Mihara, T., Serino, M., Yamamoto, T., Matsuoka, M., Kohama, M., Tomida, H., Ueno, S., et al.:
"In-Orbit Performance of MAXI Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on ISS"
Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63S, 635 (2011) - Mihara, T., Nakajima, M., Sugizaki, M., Serino, M., Matsuoka, M., Kohama, M., Kawasaki, K., et al:
"Gas Slit Camera (GSC) onboard MAXI on ISS"
Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 63S, 623 (2011) - Matsuoka, M. et al.:
"The MAXI Mission on the ISS: Science and Instruments for Monitoring All-Sky X-Ray Images."
Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 61, 999 (2009) - Takahashi, Yoshiyuki, and the JEM-EUSO Collaboration.:
"The JEM-EUSO mission"
New Journal of Physics, 11, 065009 (2009) - Ebisuzaki, T.. and the JEM-EUSO COLLABORATION :
"The JEM-EUSO mission"
Proceedings of 32th International Cosmic Ray Conference Beijing (2011). - Casolino, M., et al.:
"Detecting ultra-high energy cosmic rays from space with unprecedented acceptance: objectives and design of the JEM-EUSO mission"
Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions, Vol. 7, Issue 4, 477-482 (2011) - Yatagai, F., Honma, M., Ukai, A., Omori, K.,Suzuki, H., Shimazu, T., Takahashi, A., Ohnishi, T., Dohmae, N., & Ishioka, N.:
"Preliminary results of space experiment: Implications for the effects of space radiation and microgravity on survival and mutation induction in human cells"
Adv. Space Res. 49, 479-486 (2012) - Hashiguchi, Y., Niihama, M., Takahashi, T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., Tasaka, M., and Morita, M.T.:
"Loss-of-function mutations of retromer large subunits suppress the phenotype of zig mutant that lacks Qb-SNARE VTI11"
Plant Cell 22, 159-172 (2010) - Morita, M.T., Saito, C., Nakano, A., and Tasaka, M.:
"endodermal-amyloplast less 1 is a novel allele of SHORT-ROOT"
Adv. Space Res. 39, 1127-1133 (2007)
Principal Investigator
- Kazuo MAKISHIMA
- Group Director
Staff Scientist
- Toshikazu EBISUZAKI
- Deputy Group Director