7 papers
Deep Optical Follow-up Observations to IceCube Cosmic Neutrinos: a case for IC230724A with Subaru/HSC and prospects with Rubin/LSST
Shigeo S. Kimura, Masaomi Tanaka, Seiji Toshikage +8
IceCube has been detecting cosmic high-energy neutrinos for more than 10 years, but their major sources are still under debate. To identify them, IceCube is issuing neutrino alerts…
An optical transient candidate of 2-second duration captured by wide-field video observations
Noriaki Arima, Mamoru Doi, Shigeyuki Sako +14
Recent time-domain surveys have revealed rapid transients that evolve on timescales of days, expanding the transient population into the short-duration regime. The tr…
J-GEM near-infrared follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event S240422ed
Ichiro Takahashi, Tomoki Morokuma, Masaomi Tanaka +9
We report our near-infrared (NIR) follow-up observations of the gravitational wave (GW) event S240422ed using the Subaru Telescope/MOIRCS. S240422ed was initially classified as a b…
Second-timescale Glints from Satellites and Space Debris Detected with Tomo-e Gozen
Masaomi Tanaka, Ichiro Takahashi, Naoki Yoshida +17
A search for second-timescale optical transients is one of the frontiers of time-domain astronomy. However, it has been pointed out that reflections of sunlight from Earth-orbiting…
A Joint Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Gravitational-Wave Binary Black-Hole Merger Candidate S250328ae with the Dark Energy Camera and the Prime Focus Spectrograph
Haibin Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Sean MacBride +20
The first detection of an optical counterpart to a gravitational wave signal revealed that collaborative efforts between instruments with different specializations provide a unique…
A systematic search for rapid transients in the Subaru HSC-SSP transient survey
Seiji Toshikage, Masaomi Tanaka, Naoki Yasuda +9
Recent high-cadence transient surveys have discovered rapid transients whose light curve timescales are shorter than those of typical supernovae. In this paper, we present a system…