Member
AMANO, Takanobu
Associate Professor |
|
Research FieldSpace Physics, Plasma Astrophysics Current ResearchHot and tenuous gasses in space are in an ionized state often termed as a collisionless plasma, in which binary collisions between particles are negligible in the sense that the collisional mean free path is larger than the typical size of the system. Instead, the energy and momentum exchanges between particles are mediated by the electromagnetic field fluctuations in a collective manner. A lot of interesting phenomena unique to such a collisionless system occur as a result. Research has been conducted on those intriguing plasma phenomena in space and astrophysical plasmas, with particular emphasis on the understanding of universal and elementary physical processes. Representative Publications
1. Amano, T., Katou, T., Kitamura, N., Oka, M., Matsumoto, Y., Hoshino, M., et al. (2020). Observational evidence for stochastic shock drift acceleration of electrons at the Earth’s bow shock. Physical Review Letters, 124(6), 065101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.065101 |