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Masahiro Takada is affiliated with the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to physics and astronomy, with a concentration on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, nuclear and high energy physics, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and aspects of electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including galaxies formation, evolution, and phenomena; astronomy and astrophysical research; cosmology and gravitation theories; stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; radio astronomy observations and technology; and adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Takada's research output is published in several journals and preprint platforms, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review D
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Frequent co-authors include Takahiro Nishimichi, Hironao Miyatake, Surhud More, Sunao Sugiyama, and Atsushi J. Nishizawa, reflecting collaborative work across multiple projects in cosmology and astrophysics.

Some of the notable publications authored or co-authored by Masahiro Takada are:

  • Third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program, 2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Blinded challenge for precision cosmology with large-scale structure: Results from effective field theory for the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra, 2023, Physical Review D
  • Exploring Primordial Black Holes from the Multiverse with Optical Telescopes, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear two-point correlation functions, 2023, Physical Review D

Best Publications

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and Survey Design

    H. Aihara;N. Arimoto;R. Armstrong;S. Arnouts

  • Extragalactic Science, Cosmology and Galactic Archaeology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)

    Masahiro Takada;Richard Ellis;Masashi Chiba;Jenny E. Greene

  • Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first-year data

    Chiaki Hikage;Masamune Oguri;Masamune Oguri;Takashi Hamana;Surhud More;Surhud More

  • The Hyper Suprime-Cam SSP Survey: Overview and survey design

    Hiroaki Aihara;Nobuo Arimoto;Nobuo Arimoto;Robert Armstrong;Stéphane Arnouts

  • Hyper Suprime-Cam: System design and verification of image quality

    Satoshi Miyazaki;Satoshi Miyazaki;Yutaka Komiyama;Yutaka Komiyama;Satoshi Kawanomoto;Yoshiyuki Doi

  • Cosmological parameters from lensing power spectrum and bispectrum tomography

    Masahiro Takada;Bhuvnesh Jain

  • Extragalactic science, cosmology, and Galactic archaeology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph

    Masahiro Takada;Richard S. Ellis;Masashi Chiba;Jenny E. Greene

  • Second Data Release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

    Hiroaki Aihara;Yusra AlSayyad;Makoto Ando;Robert Armstrong

  • Systematic errors in future weak-lensing surveys: requirements and prospects for self-calibration

    Dragan Huterer;Masahiro Takada;Gary Bernstein;Bhuvnesh Jain

  • First data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program

    Hiroaki Aihara;Robert Armstrong;Steven Bickerton;James Bosch

  • Power spectrum super-sample covariance

    Masahiro Takada;Wayne Hu

  • Constraints on Earth-mass primordial black holes from OGLE 5-year microlensing events

    Hiroko Niikura;Hiroko Niikura;Masahiro Takada;Shuichiro Yokoyama;Shuichiro Yokoyama;Takahiro Sumi

  • Microlensing constraints on primordial black holes with the Subaru/HSC Andromeda observation

    Hiroko Niikura;Masahiro Takada;Naoki Yasuda;Robert H. Lupton

  • The Surprisingly Steep Mass Profile of Abell 1689, from a Lensing Analysis of Subaru Images

    Tom Broadhurst;Masahiro Takada;Keiichi Umetsu;Xu Kong

  • LoCuSS: Subaru Weak Lensing Study of 30 Galaxy Clusters

    Nobuhiro Okabe;Nobuhiro Okabe;Masahiro Takada;Keiichi Umetsu;Keiichi Umetsu;Toshifumi Futamase

  • Microlensing constraints on primordial black holes with Subaru/HSC Andromeda observations

    Hiroko Niikura;Hiroko Niikura;Masahiro Takada;Naoki Yasuda;Robert H. Lupton

  • The Surprisingly Steep Mass Profile of A1689, from a Lensing Analysis of Subaru Images*

    T. Broadhurst;M. Takada;K. Umetsu;X. Kong

  • The three‐point correlation function in cosmology

    Masahiro Takada;Bhuvnesh Jain

  • Calibrating the nonlinear matter power spectrum: Requirements for future weak lensing surveys

    Dragan Huterer;Masahiro Takada

Frequent Co-Authors

Masamune Oguri
Masamune Oguri Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama University of California, Berkeley
David N. Spergel
David N. Spergel Princeton University
Satoshi Miyazaki
Satoshi Miyazaki The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Bhuvnesh Jain
Bhuvnesh Jain University of Pennsylvania
Rachel Mandelbaum
Rachel Mandelbaum Carnegie Mellon University
Masayuki Tanaka
Masayuki Tanaka National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Masami Ouchi
Masami Ouchi University of Tokyo
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Keiichi Umetsu
Keiichi Umetsu Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica

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