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most citedNew Panoramic View of CO and 1.1 mm Continuum Emission in the Orion A Molecular Cloud. I. Survey Overview and Possible External Triggers of Star Formation

54 citations · 410 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

MAGIS (Measuring Abundances of red super Giants with Infrared Spectroscopy) project I. Establishment of an abundance analysis procedure for red supergiants and its evaluation with nearby stars

Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Naoto Kobayashi +11

[Abbreviated] Context. Given their high luminosities (L>~10^4Lsun), red supergiants (RSGs) are good tracers of the chemical abundances of the young stellar population in the Milky…

astro-ph.EP2024

[N I] 10400/10410 Å Lines as Possible Disk Wind Tracers in a Young Intermediate-Mass Star

Haruki Katoh, Chikako Yasui, Yuji Ikeda +10

In this study, we performed high-resolution near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy (R = 28,000; -1.35 m) with a high signal-to-noise ratio on HD 200775, a very young (${\sim…

astro-ph.IM2024

WARP: The Data Reduction Pipeline for the WINERED spectrograph

Satoshi Hamano, Yuji Ikeda, Shogo Otsubo +8

We present a data reduction pipeline written in Python for data obtained with the near-infrared cross-dispersed echelle spectrograph, WINERED, which yields a 0.911.35 m spect…

astro-ph.GA2023

Shock Excitation in Narrow Line Regions Powered by AGN Outflows

Misaki Mizumoto, Hiroaki Sameshima, Naoto Kobayashi +10

Outflows in the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) are considered to play a key role in the host galaxy evolution through transfer of a large amount of energy. A Narrow Line Region (NLR…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Effective temperatures of classical Cepheids from line-depth ratios in the H-band

V. Kovtyukh, B. Lemasle, N. Nardetto +6

The technique of line depth ratios (LDR) is one of the methods to determine the effective temperature of a star. They are crucial in the spectroscopic studies of variable stars lik…

astro-ph.SR2023

Astrophysical calibration of the oscillator strengths of YJ-band absorption lines in classical Cepheids

S. S. Elgueta, N. Matsunaga, M. Jian +13

Newly-developed spectrographs with increased resolving powers, particularly those covering the near-IR range, allow the characterization of more and more absorption lines in stella…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Survey of near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands in and bands. I. Newly identified bands

Satoshi Hamano, Naoto Kobayashi, Hideyo Kawakita +12

We searched for diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the 0.911.33 m region by analyzing the near-infrared (NIR) high-resolution ( and 28,000) spectra of 31 redden…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 13 cited

Absorption Lines in the 0.91-1.33 m Spectra of Red Giants for Measuring Abundances of Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, and Ni

K. Fukue, N. Matsunaga, S. Kondo +13

Red giants show a large number of absorption lines in both optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Still, the characteristics of the lines in different wave passbands are not necess…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 24 cited

Effective temperatures of red supergiants estimated from line-depth ratios of iron lines in the YJ bands, 0.97--1.32 micron

Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Mingjie Jian +10

Determining the effective temperatures (Teff) of red supergiants (RSGs) observationally is important in many fields of stellar physics and galactic astronomy, yet some significant…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

Mg II and Fe II fluxes of luminous quasars at z ~ 2.7 and evaluation of the Baldwin effect in the flux-to-abundance conversion method for quasars

Hiroaki Sameshima, Yuzuru Yoshii, Noriyuki Matsunaga +12

To investigate the chemical abundance of broad-line region clouds in quasars at high redshifts, we performed near-infrared spectroscopy of six luminous quasars at z ~ 2.7 with the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 10 cited

The effect of surface gravity on line-depth ratios in the wavelength range 0.97-1.32 μm

Mingjie Jian, Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga +10

A line-depth ratio (LDR) of two spectral lines with different excitation potentials is expected to be correlated with the effective temperature (). It is possible t…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 16 cited

Identification of Absorption Lines of Heavy Metals in the Wavelength Range 0.97--1.32 Micron

Noriyuki Matsunaga, Daisuke Taniguchi, Mingjie Jian +13

Stellar absorption lines of heavy elements can give us various insights into the chemical evolution of the Galaxy and nearby galaxies. Recently developed spectrographs for the near…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 6 cited

Possible progression of mass flow processes around young intermediate-mass stars based on high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy. I. Taurus

Chikako Yasui, Satoshi Hamano, Kei Fukue +12

We used the WINERED spectrograph to perform near-infrared high-resolution spectroscopy (resolving power ,000) of 13 young intermediate-mass stars in the Taurus star-forming…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 10 cited

First detection of -- (0,0) bands of interstellar C and CN

Satoshi Hamano, Hideyo Kawakita, Naoto Kobayashi +12

We report the first detection of C -- (0,0) and CN -- (0,0) absorption bands in the interstellar medium. The detection was made using the near…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 23 cited

FeI lines in 0.91-1.33 m spectra of red giants for measuring the microturbulence and metallicities

Sohei Kondo, Kei Fukue, Noriyuki Matsunaga +16

For a detailed analysis of stellar chemical abundances, high-resolution spectra in the optical have mainly been used, while the development of near-infrared (NIR) spectrograph has…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 13 cited

The metallicity effect on line-depth ratios in APOGEE -band spectra

Mingjie Jian, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Kei Fukue

Ratios of carefully selected line depths are sensitive to stellar effective temperature (). Relations established between line-depth ratio (LDR) and $T_\mathrm{eff}…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 2 cited

WINERED high-resolution near-infrared line catalog: A-type star

H. Sameshima, Y. Ikeda, N. Matsunaga +13

We present a catalog of absorption lines in the z', Y, and J bands that we identified in 21 Lyn, a slowly rotating A0.5 V star. We detected 155 absorption features in the high-reso…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 5 cited

A newly-identified emission-line region around P Cygni

Misaki Mizumoto, Naoto Kobayashi, Satoshi Hamano +12

We present a high-resolution () near-infrared (9,100-13,500 ) long-slit spectrum of P Cygni obtained with the newly commissioned WINERED spectrograph in Japan.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 31 cited

Correction of near-infrared high-resolution spectra for telluric absorption at 0.90-1.35 microns

Hiroaki Sameshima, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Naoto Kobayashi +15

We report a method of correcting a near-infrared (0.90-1.35 m) high-resolution () spectrum for telluric absorption using the corresponding spectrum of a telluric…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 8 cited

On the chemical abundances of Miras in clusters: V1 in the metal-rich globular NGC 5927

V. D'Orazi, D. Magurno, G. Bono +50

We present the first spectroscopic abundance determination of iron, alpha-elements (Si, Ca and Ti) and sodium for the Mira variable V1 in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 5927.…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 24 cited

Method to Estimate the Effective Temperatures of Late-Type Giants using Line-Depth Ratios in the Wavelength Range 0.97-1.32m

Daisuke Taniguchi, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Naoto Kobayashi +7

The effective temperature, one of the most fundamental atmospheric parameters of a star, can be estimated using various methods, and here we focus on the method using line-depth ra…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 8 cited

New classical Cepheids in the inner part of the northern Galactic disk and their kinematics

Satoshi Tanioka, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Kei Fukue +3

The characteristics of the inner Galaxy remain obscured by significant dust extinction, and hence infrared surveys are useful to find young Cepheids whose distances and ages can be…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 33 cited

Near infrared diffuse interstellar bands toward the Cygnus OB2 association

Satoshi Hamano, Naoto Kobayashi, Sohei Kondo +16

We obtained the near-infrared (NIR) high-resolution () spectra of the seven brightest early-type stars in the Cygnus OB2 association for investigating the en…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 6 cited

A Warm Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrograph with Very High Throughput (WINERED)

Sohei Kondo, Yuji Ikeda, Naoto Kobayashi +15

WINERED is a newly built high-efficiency (throughput) and high-resolution spectrograph customized for short NIR bands at 0.9-1.35 m. WINERED is equipped with a…