Members
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● Aki TAKIGAWA Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Astromineralogy
Research Topic: Formation and Evolution of circumstellar dust: from evolved stars to the early solar system
Short Introduction
Aki is an astromineralogist studying on minerals in meteorites and cosmic dust in space. Primitive meteorites contain a trace amount of survivors of circumstellar dust (small solid particles) condensed around evolved stars prior to the birth of the solar system (presolar grains). The presolar grains may record formation and alteration processes in the circumstellar and interstellar environments. Circumstellar dust are freshly forming around evolved stars today and can be observed with ground-based and space infrared telescopes. She aims to reveal the formation and evolution history of the precursor materials of the solar system by combining the analytical and observational studies on presolar grains and circumstellar dust, respectively, with laboratory experiments of the dust formation processes under circumstellar conditions.
Latest News
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Oct. 28, 2019
Assistant Professor Aki Takigawa (Department of Earth and Planetary Science) received “Outstanding Young Scientist Award, The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences”.
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Jul. 16, 2019
Assistant Professor Aki TAKIGAWA (Department of Earth and Planetary Science) received "The Nier Prize".
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Jun. 6, 2019
Assistant Professor Aki TAKIGAWA (Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences,) published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Jul. 31, 2018
Aki Takigawa published a paper titled “High-temperature Dust Condensation around an AGB Star: Evidence from a Highly Pristine Presolar Corundum” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 862 (24 July 2018).
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Nov. 2, 2017
Aki Takigawa published "Dust formation and wind acceleration around the aluminum oxide–rich AGB star W Hydrae." as the corresponding author in Science Advances vol.3, no. 11: eaao2149 (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA) 【01 July, 2017】
