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Akiko Kawamura is affiliated with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan and has a research focus centered on physics and astronomy, contributing significantly to the field through numerous publications. Their work spans a range of subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, spectroscopy, atmospheric science, nuclear and high energy physics, as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's main topics of interest include astrophysics and star formation studies, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, galaxies regarding their formation, evolution, and phenomena, atmospheric ozone and climate, spectroscopy and laser applications, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, and phenomena related to gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.

Kawamura has contributed extensively to several publication venues, most prominently:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Among their recent papers are:

  • FRagmentation and Evolution of Dense Cores Judged by ALMA (FREJA). I. Overview: Inner ∼1000 au Structures of Prestellar/Protostellar Cores in Taurus (2020), The Astrophysical Journal
  • ALMA CO Observations of Gamma-Ray Supernova Remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Possible Evidence for Shocked Molecular Clouds Illuminated by Cosmic-Ray Protons (2020), The Astrophysical Journal
  • ALMA Observations of Giant Molecular Clouds in M33. I. Resolving Star Formation Activities in the Giant Molecular Filaments Possibly Formed by a Spiral Shock (2020), The Astrophysical Journal
  • An Unbiased CO Survey toward the Northern Region of the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Atacama Compact Array. I. Overview: CO Cloud Distributions (2021), The Astrophysical Journal
  • Low background measurement in CANDLES-III for studying the neutrinoless double beta decay of Ca-48 (2021), Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Kawamura has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Toshikazu Onishi
  • Kazuki Tokuda
  • Y. Fukui
  • Kengo Tachihara
  • Kisetsu Tsuge

Best Publications

  • FIRST RESULTS FROM HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION ALMA OBSERVATIO NS TOWARD THE HL TAU REGION

    Partnership Alma;C. L. Brogan;L. M. Perez;T. R. Hunter

  • The 2014 ALMA Long Baseline Campaign: First Results from High Angular Resolution Observations toward the HL Tau Region

    Alma Partnership;C. L. Brogan;L. M. Pérez;T. R. Hunter

  • The Infrared Astronomical Mission AKARI

    H. Murakami;H. Baba;P. Barthel;D.L. Clements

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results

    Margaret Meixner;Karl D. Gordon;Remy Indebetouw;Joseph L. Hora

  • The infrared astronomical mission AKARI

    Hiroshi Murakami;Hajime Baba;Peter D. Barthel;David L. Clements

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE). I. Overview and Initial Results

    Margaret Meixner;Karl D. Gordon;Remy Indebetouw;Joseph L. Hora

  • Planck Early Results: All sky temperature and dust optical depth from Planck and IRAS: Constraints on the "dark gas" in our galaxy

    P. A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud

  • The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor from Infrared Dust Emission across the Local Group

    Adam K. Leroy;Alberto Bolatto;Karl Gordon;Karin Sandstrom

  • Planck early results. XIX. All-sky temperature and dust optical depth from Planck and IRAS. Constraints on the "dark gas" in our Galaxy

    Peter A. R. Ade;N. Aghanim;M. Arnaud;M. Ashdown

  • The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) for AKARI

    Mitsunobu Kawada;Hajime Baba;Peter D. Barthel;David Clements

  • The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) for AKARI

    Mitsunobu Kawada;Hajime Baba;Peter D. Barthel;David Clements

  • Molecular clouds towards RCW 49 and Westerlund 2; Evidence for cluster formation triggered by cloud-cloud collision

    Naoko Furukawa;Joanne R. Dawson;Akio Ohama;Akiko Kawamura

  • THE SECOND SURVEY OF THE MOLECULAR CLOUDS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD BY NANTEN. II. STAR FORMATION

    Akiko Kawamura;Yoji Mizuno;Tetsuhiro Minamidani;Tetsuhiro Minamidani;Miroslav D. Fillipović

  • Molecular Clouds in Nearby Galaxies

    Yasuo Fukui;Akiko Kawamura

  • Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SAGE-SMC). I. Overview

    Karl D. Gordon;Margaret Meixner;Marilyn Meade;Barbara A. Whitney

  • Molecular Clouds Toward the Super Star Cluster NGC3603; Possible Evidence for a Cloud-Cloud Collision in Triggering the Cluster Formation

    Yasuo Fukui;Akio Ohama;Naoki Hanaoka;Naoko Furukawa

  • The Second Survey of the Molecular Clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud by NANTEN. I. Catalog of Molecular Clouds

    Y. Fukui;A. Kawamura;T. Minamidani;T. Minamidani;Y. Mizuno

  • First Results of a CO Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud with NANTEN; Giant Molecular Clouds as Formation Sites of Populous Clusters

    Yasuo Fukui;Norikazu Mizuno;Reiko Yamaguchi;Akira Mizuno

  • THE MAGELLANIC MOPRA ASSESSMENT (MAGMA). I. THE MOLECULAR CLOUD POPULATION OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

    Tony Wong;Annie Hughes;Annie Hughes;Annie Hughes;Joergen Ott;Erik Muller

  • Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE). IV. Dust Properties in the Interstellar Medium

    Jean Philippe Bernard;William T. Reach;Deborah Paradis;Margaret Meixner

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshikazu Onishi
Toshikazu Onishi Osaka Metropolitan University
Yasuo Fukui
Yasuo Fukui Nagoya University
Remy Indebetouw
Remy Indebetouw National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Margaret Meixner
Margaret Meixner Space Telescope Science Institute
Gavin Rowell
Gavin Rowell University of Adelaide
William T. Reach
William T. Reach Universities Space Research Association
Michael G. Burton
Michael G. Burton Armagh Observatory
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka Nagoya University
Felix Aharonian
Felix Aharonian Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Joseph L. Hora
Joseph L. Hora Smithsonian Institution

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