Makoto Tashiro
Saitama University
403 Papers
5.1K Citations
Makoto Tashiro is an academic researcher from Saitama University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Radio galaxy. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 384 publications. Previous affiliations of Makoto Tashiro include Kyoto University & Hiroshima University.
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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Neil Gehrels,G. Chincarini,G. Chincarini,Paolo Giommi,Keith O. Mason,John A. Nousek,Alan A. Wells,Nicholas E. White,S. D. Barthelmy,David N. Burrows,L. R. Cominsky,Kevin Hurley,F. E. Marshall,Peter Mészáros,Peter W. A. Roming,Lorella Angelini,Lorella Angelini,L. M. Barbier,Tomaso Belloni,Sergio Campana,P. A. Caraveo,M. M. Chester,O. Citterio,T. L. Cline,Mark Cropper,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,A. J. Dean,Eric D. Feigelson,E. E. Fenimore,Dale A. Frail,A. S. Fruchter,Gordon P. Garmire,Keith C. Gendreau,Gabriele Ghisellini,Jochen Greiner,Joanne E. Hill,S. D. Hunsberger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Pawan Kumar,F. Lebrun,Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,Barbara J. Mattson,Barbara J. Mattson,Richard Mushotzky,Jay P. Norris,J. P. Osborne,Bohdan Paczynski,David Palmer,H.-S. Park,A. M. Parsons,J. A. Paul,Martin J. Rees,Christopher S. Reynolds,James E. Rhoads,T. P. Sasseen,Bradley E. Schaefer,A. Short,Alan P. Smale,Alan P. Smale,Ian Smith,Luigi Stella,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Leisa K. Townsley,Jack Tueller,Martin J. L. Turner,M. Vietri,Wolfgang Voges,Martin Ward,Richard Willingale,F. M. Zerbi,W. W. Zhang +77 more
- 20 Aug 2004
TL;DR: The Swift mission as discussed by the authors is a multi-wavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy, which is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy and pioneers the way for future rapid-reaction and multiwavelength missions.
The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX Mission
Scott Barthelmy,L. M. Barbier,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,Edward E. Fenimore,Neil Gehrels,D. Hullinger,D. Hullinger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,David Palmer,A. M. Parsons,Goro Sato,Motoko Suzuki,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Jack Tueller +18 more
TL;DR: The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) as discussed by the authors is a wide-FOV, coded-aperture instrument with a CdZnTe detector plane and a 1.4 sr (half-coded) FOV.
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The X-Ray Observatory Suzaku
Kazuhisa Mitsuda,Mark W. Bautz,Hajime Inoue,Richard L. Kelley,Katsuji Koyama,Hideyo Kunieda,Kazuo Makishima,Yoshiaki Ogawara,Robert Petre,Tadayuk Takahashi,Hiroshi Tsunemi,Nicholas E. White,Naohisa Anabuki,Lorella Angelini,Keith A. Arnaud,Hisamitsu Awaki,Aya Bamba,Kevin R. Boyce,Gregory V. Brown,Kai Wing Chan,Jean Cottam,Tadayasu Dotani,John P. Doty,Ken Ebisawa,Yuichiro Ezoe,Andrew C. Fabian,Enectali Figueroa,Ryuichi Fujimoto,Yasushi Fukazawa,Tae Furusho,Akihiro Furuzawa,Keith C. Gendreau,Richard E. Griffiths,Yoshito Haba,Kenji Hamaguchi,Ilana M. Harrus,Günther Hasinger,Isamu Hatsukade,Kiyoshi Hayashida,Patrick Henry,Junko S. Hiraga,Stephen S. Holt,Ann Hornschemeier,John P. Hughes,Una Hwang,Manabu Ishida,Yoshitaka Ishisaki,Naoki Isobe,Masayuki Itoh,Naoko Iyomoto,Steven M. Kahn,Tuneyoshi Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Haruyoshi Katayama,Nobuyuki Kawai,Caroline Kllbourne,Kenzo Kinugasa,Steve Klssel,Shunji Kitamoto,Mitsuhiro Kohama,Takayoshi Kohmura,Motohide Kokubun,Taro Kotani,J. Kotoku,Aya Kubota,Greg Madejski,Yoshitomo Maeda,Fumiyoshi Makino,Alex Markowitz,Chiho Matsumoto,Hironori Matsumoto,Masaru Matsuoka,Kyoko Matsushita,Dan McCammon,Tatehiko Mihara,Kazutami Misakl,Emi Miyata,Tsunefumi Mizuno,Koji Mori,Hideyuki Mori,Mikio Morii,Harvey Moseley,Koji Mukai,Hiroshi Murakami,Toshio Murakami,Richard Mushotzky,Fumiaki Nagase,M. Namiki,Hitoshi Negoro,Kazuhiro Nakazawa,John A. Nousek,Takashi Okajima,Yasushi Ogasaka,Takaya Ohashi,T. Oshima,Naomi Ota,Masanobu Ozaki,H. Ozawa,Arvind Parmar,W. D. Pence,F. Scott Porter,James Reeves,George R. Ricker,Ikuya Sakurai,Wilton T. Sanders,Atsushi Senda,Peter J. Serlemitsos,Ryo Shibata,Yang Soong,Randall K. Smith,Motoko Suzuki,Andrew Szymkowiak,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Toru Tamagawa,Keisuke Tamura,Takayuki Tamura,Yasuo Tanaka,Makoto Tashiro,Yuzuru Tawara,Yukikatsu Terada,Yuichi Terashima,Hiroshi Tomida,Ken'ichi Torii,Yohko Tsuboi,Masahiro Tsujimoto,Takeshi Go Tsuru,Martin J. L. Turner,Yoshihiro Ueda,Shiro Ueno,M. Ueno,Shin'ichiro Uno,Yuji Urata,Shin Watanabe,Norimasa Yamamoto,Kazutaka Yamaoka,Noriko Y. Yamasaki,Koujun Yamashita,Makoto Yamauchi,Shigeo Yamauchi,Tahir Yaqoob,Daisuke Yonetoku,Atsumasa Yoshida +142 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the spacecraft, in-orbit performance, operations, and data processing that are related to observations of the Suzaku X-ray observatory, including high-sensitivity wide-band Xray spectroscopy.
The burst alert telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX mission
Scott Barthelmy,L. M. Barbier,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,Edward E. Fenimore,Neil Gehrels,D. Hullinger,D. Hullinger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,David Palmer,A. M. Parsons,Goro Sato,Motoko Suzuki,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Jack Tueller +18 more
TL;DR: The burst alert telescope (BAT) as discussed by the authors is one of three instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and it detects the GRB and localizes the burst direction to an accuracy of 1-4 arcmin within 20 s after the start of the event.
Hard X-Ray Detector (HXD) on Board Suzaku
Tadayuki Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,K. Abe,Morinobu Endo,Y. Endo,Yuichiro Ezoe,Yasushi Fukazawa,M. Hamaya,S. Hirakuri,Soojing Hong,M. Horii,Hajime Inoue,Hajime Inoue,Naoki Isobe,Takeshi Itoh,Naoko Iyomoto,Tuneyoshi Kamae,Daisuke Kasama,Jun Kataoka,Jun Kataoka,Hiroshi Kato,Madoka Kawaharada,Naomi Kawano,Kengo Kawashima,S. Kawasoe,Tetsuichi Kishishita,Tetsuichi Kishishita,Takao Kitaguchi,Y. Kobayashi,Y. Kobayashi,Motohide Kokubun,J. Kotoku,M. Kouda,M. Kouda,Aya Kubota,Yoshikatsu Kuroda,Greg Madejski,Kazuo Makishima,K. Masukawa,Yukari Matsumoto,Takefumi Mitani,Takefumi Mitani,Ryohei Miyawaki,Tsunefumi Mizuno,Koji Mori,Masanori Mori,M. Murashima,Toshio Murakami,Kazuhiro Nakazawa,H. Niko,Masaharu Nomachi,Y. Okada,Masanori Ohno,K. Oonuki,K. Oonuki,Naomi Ota,Hideki Ozawa,Goro Sato,Goro Sato,Shingo Shinoda,M. Sugiho,M. Suzuki,Koji Taguchi,Hiromitsu Takahashi,I. Takahashi,Shin'ichiro Takeda,Shin'ichiro Takeda,Ken-ichi Tamura,Ken-ichi Tamura,Takayuki Tamura,Takaaki Tanaka,Takaaki Tanaka,C. Tanihata,C. Tanihata,Makoto Tashiro,Yukikatsu Terada,S. Tominaga,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Shin Watanabe,Shin Watanabe,Kazutaka Yamaoka,Takayuki Yanagida,Daisuke Yonetoku +83 more
TL;DR: The hard X-ray detector (HXD) on board Suzaku as discussed by the authors was designed to achieve an extremely low in-orbit background based on a combination of new techniques, including the concept of well-type active shield counter.
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