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Research & Activities

Publications

Extraterrestrial Observation

Scharf, C., Virgo, N., Cleaves II, J. M., Kimura, J., and 33 coauthors, A Strategy for Origins of Life Research, Astrobiology 15, 1031-1042, doi:10.1089/ast.2015.1113, 2015.

Kimura, T.; Badman, S. V.; Tao, C.; Yoshioka, K.; Murakami, G.; Yamazaki, A.; Tsuchiya, F.; Bonfond, B.; Steffl, A. J.; Masters, A.; Kasahara, S.; Hasegawa, H.; Yoshikawa, I.; Fujimoto, M.; Clarke, J. T.Transient internally driven aurora at Jupiter discovered by Hisaki and the Hubble Space Telescope, Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063272, 2015.

Kimura, J., Kitadai, N., Polymerization of building blocks of life on Europa and other icy moons, Astrobiology 15, 430-441, doi:10.1089/ast.2015.1306, 2015.

Yuka Fujii, Jun Kimura, James Dohm, and Makiko Ohtake. Astrobiology. September 2014, 14(9): 753-768. doi:10.1089/ast.2014.1165.

Koji Tsumura, Ko Arimatsu, Eiichi Egami, Yutaka Hayano, Chikatoshi Honda, Jun Kimura, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Shuji Matsuura, Yosuke Minowa, Kensuke Nakajima, Taishi Nakamoto,
Mai Shirahata, Jason Surace, Yasuto Takahashi, and and Takehiko Wada, Near-infrared Brightness of the Galilean Satellites Eclipsed in Jovian Shadow: A New Technique to
Investigate Jovian Upper Atmosphere, The Astrophysical Journal 789, 122, 2014.

K. M. Lewis and Y. Fujii (2014) "Next Generation of Telescopes or Dynamics Required to Determine if Exo-Moons have Prograde or Retrograde Orbits" Astrophysical Journal Letters, Accepted

H. Rein, Y. Fujii, D. S. Spiegel (2014) "Some inconvenient truths about biosignatures involving two chemical species on Earth-like exoplanets" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, article id. 24778224

Y. Xue, Y. Suto, A. Taruya, T. Hirano, Y. Fujii, K. Masuda (2014) "Tidal Evolution of the Spin-Orbit Angle in Exoplanetary Systems" The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 784, Issue 1, article id. 66, 9 pp.

M. Swain, D. Mark, G. Tinetti, M. Hollis, T. Morgan, L. Marcell, M. Line, H. Kawahara, Y. Fujii, A. P. Showman, S. N. Yurchenko (2013) "Probing the extreme planetary atmosphere of WASP-12b" Icarus, Volume 225, Issue 1, p. 432-445

Yuka Fujii, Jun Kimura, James Dohm, and Makiko Ohtake, Geology and Photometric Variation of Solar System Bodies with Minor Atmospheres: Implications for Solid Exoplanets, Astrobiology 14, 753-768, 2014.