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Ken'ichi Nomoto

Ken'ichi Nomoto( dã bổn hiến mộtNomoto Ken'ichi,born 1 December 1946 in Tokyo) is a Japanese astrophysicist and astronomer, known for his research onstellar evolution,supernovae,and theorigin of heavy elements.[1]

Education and career

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Nomoto graduated in astronomy from theUniversity of Tokyowith a BS in 1969 and a PhD in 1974. As a postdoc he was a research fellow of theJapan Society for the Promotion of Science.AtIbaraki Universityhe was an assistant professor from 1976 to 1981. At the University of Tokyo he became an assistant professor in 1982, an associate professor in 1985, and a full professor in 1993.[2]At theKavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe(IPMU) he was a principal investigator from 2007 to 2017, as well as a project professor from 2008 to 2017, and is since 2017 a visiting senior scientist.[3]He was a research associate atNASA'sGoddard Space Flight Center(1979–1981) and has held visiting positions at several institutions, includingGarching'sMax Planck Institute for Astrophysics(1982 and 1983), theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(1983),Brookhaven National Laboratory(1985–1986), theUniversity of Amsterdam(1992), and theKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics.He is now the University of Tokyo's Hamamatsu Professor in the endowed research unit, Dark Side of the Universe.[2]

In 2008 he, with his colleagues Keiichi Maeda and Masaomi Tanaka, discovered by using theSubaru Telescopethat most core-collapse supernovae are not spherically symmetric but instead elongated in shape.[4]With Maeda and others, he reported that the spectral diversity in Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a consequence of random directions from which such asymmetric explosions are observed. Their empirical findings indicated that the spectral evolution diversity is not a serious concern in using SNe Ia as cosmological standard candles for determining distances.[5][6]He was a member of an international team of astronomers that published in 2008 their study using the Subaru Telescope to observe "light echoes" in the remnant ofTycho's Supernova (SN 1572);such light echoes bounced off dust particle surrounding the remnant and reached Earth 436 years afterTycho Brahe's observation in 1572. The team compared their 2008 observed spectroscopic data with many other supernova spectra to show that Tycho's Supernova is a statistically typical example of a Type Ia supernova.[7][8]He was part of the research group that revealed that the exceptionally brightType Ia supernova named SN 2009dchad a progenitor star with a mass (1.44M☉) slightly above theChandrasekhar limitdue to its fast rotation. The discovery has implications for the common use of Type Ia supernovae asstandard candlesfor measuring distances in the Universe.[9]In 2010, he and colleagues succeeded in detecting a supernova (SN 2005cz), which is a core-collapse supernova with progenitor star at the low-mass end (i.e.,8 to 12M⊙) of the range of massive stars that can produce supernovae.[10][11]In 2012 he, with two colleagues, explained the fact that often no companion star was found in Type Ia supernovae. Their explanation is that, before the supernova explosion, the companion star of the binary star system evolved into a helium-rich white dwarf, which is difficult to observe.[12][13]Their explanation solved a problem for the origin of Type I supernovae according to the single degenerate (SD) accretion scenario, in which a red giant or other main sequence star gradually loses mass by accretion onto the nearby white dwarf. In the competing double degenerate (DD) scenario, two white dwarfs with a high carbon-oxygen content merge.[14][15]

Nomoto received in 1989 theNishina Memorial Prize,in 1995 theJapan Academy Medal,and in 2010 a medal from theInstitut d'Astrophysique de Paris.In 2015 he received theMarcel Grossmann Awardfor showing theoretically that binary systems produce various forms of stellar evolution and can produce "various types of supernovae, hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts, as well as neutron stars and black holes."[1]In 2019 he received theHans A. Bethe Prizeof theAmerican Physical Societyfor "lasting contributions to our understanding of the nuclear astrophysics of the universe, including stellar evolution, the synthesis of new elements, the theory of core-collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, and gamma-ray bursts."[2]In 2020 he was awarded theOrder of the Sacred Treasure.[16]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ab"Ken'ichi Nomoto Wins 2015 Marcel Grossman Award".Asian Scientist.4 June 2015.
  2. ^abc"2019 Hans A. Bethe Prize Recipient, Ken'ichi Nomoto".American Physical Society.
  3. ^"Ken'ichi Nomoto".Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU).
  4. ^"Supernovae are NOT round: Spectroscopy by the Subaru Telescope".Press Releases, School of Science, the University of Tokyo.31 January 2008.
  5. ^"Strengthening the case for the dark energy! Type Ia supernova are after all uniform".Kavli IPMU.1 July 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 18 October 2021.Retrieved26 September2022.
  6. ^Maeda, K.; Benetti, S.; Stritzinger, M.; Röpke, F. K.; Folatelli, G.; Sollerman, J.; Taubenberger, S.; Nomoto, K.; Leloudas, G.; Hamuy, M.; Tanaka, M.; Mazzali, P. A.; Elias-Rosa, N. (2010). "An asymmetric explosion as the origin of spectral evolution diversity in type Ia supernovae".Nature.466(7302): 82–85.arXiv:1006.5888.Bibcode:2010Natur.466...82M.doi:10.1038/nature09122.PMID20596015.S2CID4426769.
  7. ^"Subaru sees Tycho's New Star via Echo Light: K.Nomoto and His International Team".Kavli IPMU.1 December 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 13 June 2022.Retrieved26 September2022.
  8. ^Krause, Oliver; Tanaka, Masaomi; Usuda, Tomonori; Hattori, Takashi; Goto, Miwa; Birkmann, Stephan; Nomoto, Ken'Ichi (2008). "Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia as revealed by its light-echo spectrum".Nature.456(7222): 617–619.arXiv:0810.5106.Bibcode:2008Natur.456..617K.doi:10.1038/nature07608.PMID19052622.S2CID4409995.
  9. ^"The Most Luminous Type Ia Supernova".Kavli IPMU.2009. Archived fromthe originalon 13 June 2022.Retrieved26 September2022.
  10. ^"A Massive Star Origin for An Unusual Helium-Rich Supernovae in An Elliptical Galaxy".Kavli IPMU.20 May 2010. Archived fromthe originalon 11 February 2021.Retrieved26 September2022.
  11. ^Kawabata, K. S.; Maeda, K.; Nomoto, K.; Taubenberger, S.; Tanaka, M.; Deng, J.; Pian, E.; Hattori, T.; Itagaki, K. (2010). "A massive star origin for an unusual helium-rich supernova in an elliptical galaxy".Nature.465(7296): 326–328.arXiv:0906.2811.Bibcode:2010Natur.465..326K.doi:10.1038/nature09055.PMID20485430.S2CID205220629.
  12. ^Hachisu, Izumi; Kato, Mariko; Nomoto, Ken'Ichi (2012). "Final Fates of Rotating White Dwarfs and Their Companions in the Single Degenerate Model of Type Ia Supernovae".The Astrophysical Journal.756(1): L4.arXiv:1207.2261.Bibcode:2012ApJ...756L...4H.doi:10.1088/2041-8205/756/1/L4.S2CID119177327.
  13. ^"Rapidly rotating white dwarf stars can solve the missing companion problem for Type Ia supernovae".Kavlid IPMU.4 September 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 6 October 2022.Retrieved26 September2022.
  14. ^March, Marisa Cristina (13 January 2013).Advanced Statistical Methods for Astrophysical Probes of Cosmology.Springer. pp. 46–49.ISBN9783642350603.
  15. ^Ferrand, Gilles; Tanikawa, Ataru; Warren, Donald C.; Nagataki, Shigehiro; Safi-Harb, Samar; Decourchelle, Anne (2022)."The Double Detonation of a Double-degenerate System, from Type Ia Supernova Explosion to its Supernova Remnant".The Astrophysical Journal.930(1): 92.arXiv:2202.04268.Bibcode:2022ApJ...930...92F.doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac5c58.S2CID246679837.
  16. ^"Kavli IPMU Senior Scientist Ken'ichi Nomoto awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure".Kavli IPMU.29 April 2020.
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