Last updated on Nov. 25, 2008
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Our group's recent papers
"Reaction routes in the CO-H2CO-dn-CH3OH-dm system clarified from H(D) exposure of solid formaldehyde at low temperatures"
H. Hidaka, M. Watanabe, A. Kouchi, N. Watanabe
Astrophys. J. 702, 291, 2009.
"Formation of compact amorphous H2O ice by codeposition of hydrogen atoms with oxygen molecules on grain surfaces"
Y. Oba, N. Miyauchi, T. Chigai, N. Watanabe, A. Kouchi
Astrophys. J. 701, 464, 2009

"Translational and Rotational Energy Measurements of Photodesorbed Water Molecules in Their Vibrational Ground State from Amorphous Solid Water"
Akihiro Yabushita, Tetsuya Hama, Masaaki Yokoyama, Masahiro Kawasaki, Stefan Andersson, Richard N. Dixon, Michael N. R. Ashfold, and Naoki Watanabe
Astrophys. J. Lett. 699, L80-L83, (2009)

"Ice surface reactions: A key to chemical evolution in space"
Naoki Watanabe & Akira Kouchi
Prog. Surf. Sci., 83, 439-489 (2008)

"Release of hydrogen molecules from the photodissociation of amorphous solid water and polycrystalline ice at 157 and 193 nm"
A. Yabushita, T. Hama, D. Iida, N. Kawanaka, M. Kawasaki, N. Watanabe, M. N. R. Ashfold, & H-P. Loock,
J. Chem. Phys., 129, 044501 (2008)
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"Numerical Simulation of Density Evolution of Dust Aggregates in Protoplanetary Disks. I. Head-on Collisions"
Toru Suyama, Koji Wada, and Hidekazu Tanaka
Astrophys. J., 684, 1310 (2008)
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"Measurements of energy partitioning in H_2 formation by photolysis of amorphous water ice"
Akihiro Yabushita, Tetsuya Hama, Daisuke Iida, Noboru Kawanaka, Masahiro Kawasaki, Naoki Watanabe, Michael N. R. Ashfold, and Hans-Peter Loock
Astrophys. J., 682, L69 (2008)
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"Mid-infrared spectra of cometary dust: the evasion of its silicate mineralogy"
H. Kimura, T. Chigai and T. Yamamoto
A&A 482 (2008) 305-307
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"Numerical Simulation of Dust Aggregate Collisions. II. Compression and Disruption of Three-Dimensional Aggregates in Head-on Collisions"
Koji Wada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Toru Suyama, Hiroshi Kimura, and Tetsuo Yamamoto
Astrophysical J., 677, 1296(2008).

"Structural effects of ice grain surfaces on the hydrogenation of CO at low temperatures"
H. Hidaka, N. Miyauchi, A. Kouchi, & N. Watanabe
Chem. Phys. Lett. 456, 36 (2008)

"Formation of hydrogen peroxide and water from the reaction of cold hydrogen atoms with solid oxygen at 10 K"
N. Miyauchi, H. Hidaka, T.Chigai, A. Nagaoka, N. Watanabe, & A. Kouchi
Chem. Phys. Lett. 456, 27 (2008)

"A new method of evaluation of melt/crystal interfacial energy and activation energy of diffusion"
K.K. Tanaka, T. Yamamoto, K. Nagashima and K. Tsukamoto
Journal of Crystal Growth, 310, 1281-1286 (2008)
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"Analytic model of upper tropospheric clouds in the tropical Hadley cell"
K.K.Tanaka, T.Yamamoto, S.Watanabe, and K.Nakajima
Earth Planets Space, 60, 219-228 (2008)
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"Comet 9P/Tempel 1: Interpretation with the Deep Impact results"
Yamamoto, S., Kimura, H., Zubko, E., Kobayashi, H., Wada, K., Ishiguro, M., and Matsui, T.
Astrophys. J. 673, L199-L202, (2008)
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"Laboratory Simulation of Competition between Hydrogenation and Photolysis in the Chemical Evolution of H2O-CO Ice Mixtures"
N. Watanabe, O. Mouri, A. Nagaoka, T. Chigai, A. Kouchi, and V. Pirronello
Astrophys. J. 668, 1001 (2007)
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"Radiation pressure force acting on cometary aggregates"
Kohler, M., Minato, T., Kimura, H., and Mann, I.
Adv. Space Res., 40, (2)266-(2)271, 2007.
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"Temperature, composition, and hydrogen isotope effect in the hydrogenation of CO at 10 - 20 K"
H. Hidaka, A. Kouchi & N. Watanabe
J. Chem. Phys.,126, 204707 (2007)
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"Effective rate constants for the surface reaction between solid methanol and deuterium atoms at 10 K"
A. Nagaoka, N. Watanabe, & Akira Kouchi
J.Phys. Chem. A, 111, 3016 (2007)
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"Numerical simulation of dust aggregate collsions. I. compression and disruption of two-dimensional aggregates"
Koji Wada, Hidekazu Tanaka, Toru Suyama, Hiroshi Kimura, and Tetsuo Yamamoto
Astrophysical J., 661, 320-222 (May 20, 2007).
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"Theory of energy dissipation in a viscoelastic body under time-dependent stress"
T. Yamamoto and T. Minato
JAdvances in Space Research 39, 472-476 (2007)
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"Scattering of light by roughened Gaussian random particles"
E. Zubko, K. Muinonen, Yu. Shkuratov, G. Videen, T. Nousiainen
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., V.106, 604-615 (2007)
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"Interrelating angular scattering characteristics to internal electric fields for wavelength-scale spherical particles"
J. Tyynela, E. Zubko, G. Videen, K. Muinonen
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., V.106, 520-534 (2007)
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  "Sh-matrices method as applied to scattering by particles with layered structure"
D. Petrov, Yu. Shkuratov, E. Zubko, G. Videen
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., V.106, 437-454 (2007)
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"Comparison between discrete dipole implementations and exact techniques"
A. Penttila, E. Zubko, K. Lumme, K. Muinonen, M. A. Yurkin, B. Draine, J. Rahola, A. G. Hoekstra, Yu. Shkuratov
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., V.106, 417-436 (2007)
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"Light scattering by Gaussian random particles with discrete-dipole approximation"
K. Muinonen, E. Zubko, J. Tyynela, Yu. G. Shkuratov, Gorden Videen
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., V.106, 360-377 (2007)
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"Multispectral polarimetry as a tool to investigate texture and chemistry of lunar regolith particles"
Yu. Shkuratov, N. Opanasenko, E. Zubko, Ye. Grynko, V. Korokhin, C. Pieters, G. Videen, U. Mall, A. Opanasenko
Icarus, V. 187, pp. 406?416 (2007)
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"Two different evolutionary types of comets proved by polarimetric and infrared properties of their dust"
L. Kolokolova, H. Kimura, N. Kiselev and V. Rosenbush
A&A 463 (2007) 1189-1196 (Section 'Planets and planetary systems')
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"Theory of energy dissipation in a viscoelastic body under time-dependent stress"
T. Yamaoto and T. Minato
Advances in Space Research, Available online 13 November 2006
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"Dust in the solar system and in extra-solar planetary systems"
Mann, I., Kohler, M., Kimura, H., Cechowski, A. and Minato, T.
Astron. Astrophys. Rev., 13, 159-228, 2006.
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"Dependence of the effective rate constants for the hydrogenation of CO on the temperature and composition of the surface"
N. Watanabe, A. Nagaoka, H. Hidaka, T. Shiraki, T. Chigai, A. Kouchi
Planet. Space. Sci. 54, 1107-1114 (2006)

"Thermal desorption of Na in meteoroids - Dependence on perihelion distance of meteor showers"
T. Kasuga, T. Yamamoto, H. Kimura and J. Watanabe
A&A 453 (2006) L17-L20 (Section 'Letters').
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"Momentum transfer to fluffy dust aggregates from stellar winds"
  Minato, T., Koehler, M., Kimura, H., Mann, I., Yamamoto, T.
A&A 452, 2006, 701-707
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"First Two-Micron Imaging Polarimetry of βPictoris"
Motohide Tamura, Misato Fukagawa, Hiroshi Kimura, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Hiroshi Suto, and Lyu Abe
Astrophysical J., 641, 1172-1177 (April 20, 2006).
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"Light scattering by cometary dust numerically simulated with aggregate particles consisting of identical spheres"
H. Kimura, L. Kolokolova and I. Mann
A&A 449 (2006) 1243-1254 (Section 'Planets and planetary systems')
 
"Light-scattering properties of random-oriented aggregates: Do they represent the properties of an ensemble of aggregates?"
Kolokolova, L., Kimura, H., Ziegler, K., and Mann, I.
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 100, 199-206, (2006).
 
"Metallic Abundances of 2002 Leonid Meteoroids in Two Dust Trails Formed in Different Epochs: No Evidence of Solar Heating Effect"
T. Kasuga, J. Watanabe, T. Yamamoto, N. Ebizuka, and H. Kawakita.
Astrophysical J., 638, 1176-1179 (February 20, 2006).
 
"Applicability of the discrete-dipole approximation with the lattice dispersion relation to light-scattering simulations of large cosmic dust aggregates"
M. Kohler, H. Kimura, and I. Mann.
Astron. Astrophys., 448, 395-399 (March 2006).
 







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Institute of Low Temperature Science,
Hokkaido University
Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0819, JAPAN