Members
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● Teruaki ENOTO Associate Professor
Research Interests: Astrophysics
Research Topic: Fundamental Physics of Neutron Stars Studied via Cosmic X-rays
Short Introduction
Teruaki is a high energy astrophysicist studying neutron stars. Neutron stars are compact stellar remnants left after the supernova explosion of massive stars. He is interested in not only an astronomical context of neutron stars but also their extreme physical environment as an ideal laboratory for the fundamental physics because neutron stars exhibit high density, extreme gravity, and strong magnetic field, that can not be tested in ground-based experiments. Among a tremendous diversity of neutron stars, he is especially focus on strange subgroups, Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs). They are thought to be strongly magnetized objects (collectively called “magnetars”) and their bright radiation is believed to be powered by huge magnetic energy stored in their stellar interior. Despite accumulated evidence, such a “magnetar” hypothesis is still currently explored. He is challenging to answer this question using next generation X-ray observatories.
Latest News
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Feb. 9, 2021
Research project lead by Tomohiko TAKEI (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine) was selected for the FOREST program of Japan Science and Technology Agency.
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Sep. 27, 2019
Associate Professor Teruaki Enoto(Graduate School of Science) published a paper in Nuclear Physics News.
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Sep. 27, 2019
Associate Professor Teruaki Enoto(Graduate School of Science) published a paper in Reports on Progress in Physics.
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Sep. 27, 2019
Associate Professor Teruaki Enoto(Graduate School of Science) published a paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.
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Apr. 16, 2019
Dr. Teruaki Enoto (Graduate School of Science) received an award from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, MEXT
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Jan. 10, 2019
Associate Professor Teruaki Enoto(Graduate School of Science) published a paper in Nature.
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Nov. 29, 2018
Dr. Teruaki Enoto (6th batch) received an award from National Institute of Science and Technology
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Jun. 5, 2018
Teruaki Enoto and co-authors published “Termination of Electron Acceleration in Thundercloud by Intra/Inter-cloud Discharge” in Geophysical Research Letters (the issue of May 17, 2018). The press release was featured in Hokkoku Shimbun on May 25, 2018.
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Mar. 6, 2018
Dr. Teruaki Enoto (6th batch) received the 10th annual space science award (science) from the the Society for Promotion of Space Science.
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Dec. 12, 2017
Research on lightning-triggered photonuclear reactions by Teruaki Enoto and coauthors was awarded as one of the "Top Ten Breakthroughs of 2017”selected by “Physics World” of Institute of Physics, UK.
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Nov. 27, 2017
Teruaki Enoto was featured in newspapers and web articles in UK, US, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia: Science, Nature Magazine, Physics World, Independent, Newsweek, Discover, Sputnik, Le Temps, and Science Alert
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Nov. 27, 2017
Teruaki Enoto published “Photonuclear reactions triggered by lighting discharge” in Nature (the issue of November 23, 2017).
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Sep. 14, 2017
Teruaki Enoto was featured as a pioneering scientist in the Japanese newspaper (Asahi Shinbun morning edition, p17, Sep. 14, 2017)
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Jul. 21, 2017
Teruaki Enoto published “Magnetar Broadband X-Ray Spectra Correlated with Magnetic Fields: Suzaku Archive of SGRs and AXPs Combined with NuSTAR, Swift, and RXTE” in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
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Nov. 19, 2015
Teruaki Enoto gave a talk on "X-ray Observations of Magnetic Activities and Evolution of Magnetars" at Theoretical Astronomy Workshop of NAOJ in 2015 (October 28, 2015, Izu, Kanagawa, Japan).
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Nov. 19, 2015
Teruaki Enoto gave a talk on "X-ray Astronomy and Laser Physics" at Annual Meeting of The Physical Society of Japan (September 17, 2015, Kansai University, Japan).
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Sep. 7, 2015
Teruaki Enoto gave a talk on "Broadband X-ray Spectra of SGRs and AXPs Observed with Suzaku" at the the Many Faces of Neutron Stars ( September 2, 2015, Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, Munich, Germany).
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Jul. 27, 2015
Teruaki Enoto published a Japanese review paper entitled "The strongest magnet in the Universe: X-ray observations of mysterious magnetars" in Physical science magazine "Parity", Vol.30, No. 8 (2015).
