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Overview

Masayuki Tanaka is affiliated with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences in Japan, working primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. With over 200 publications, Tanaka's research encompasses a range of topics within Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, and related physical sciences.

Their research contributions focus extensively on the study of galaxies, astronomical phenomena, and cosmology. Key topics include galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena; astronomy and astrophysical research; stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; cosmology and gravitation theories; as well as applications in remote sensing in agriculture and radio astronomy observations and technology.

Tanaka's frequent coauthors highlight collaborative work with notable scientists such as Yutaka Komiyama, Masahiro Takada, Michael A. Strauss, Rhythm Shimakawa, and Hitoshi Murayama.

They have published regularly in several prestigious venues, most often in arXiv (Cornell University), Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, The Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review D, and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Some recent representative papers include:

  • COSMOS2020: A Panchromatic View of the Universe to z ∼ 10 from Two Complementary Catalogs (2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
  • Third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (2021, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan)
  • Quiescent Galaxies 1.5 Billion Years after the Big Bang and Their Progenitors (2020, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • An Atlas of Color-selected Quiescent Galaxies at z > 3 in Public JWST Fields (2023, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra (2023, Physical Review D)

Best Publications

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

    Kyle S. Dawson;David J. Schlegel;Christopher P. Ahn;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An;Scott F. Anderson

  • COSMOS Photometric Redshifts with 30-bands for 2-deg2

    O. Ilbert;P. Capak;M. Salvato;H. Aussel

  • Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

    M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

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

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

  • The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity

    Zeljko Ivezic;Branimir Sesar;Mario Juric;Nicholas Bond

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • The zCOSMOS 10k-Bright Spectroscopic Sample

    Simon J. Lilly;Vincent Le Brun;Christian Maier;Vincenzo Mainieri

  • Algorithms for radiative intensity calculations in moderately thick atmospheres using a truncation approximation

    T. Nakajima;M. Tanaka

  • The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar Metallicity

    Željko Ivezić;Branimir Sesar;Mario Jurić;Nicholas Bond

  • Improved constraints on the expansion rate of the Universe up to z ∼ 1.1 from the spectroscopic evolution of cosmic chronometers

    M. Moresco;A. Cimatti;R. Jimenez;L. Pozzetti

  • 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

  • Photometric Response Functions of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imager

    Mamoru Doi;Mamoru Doi;Masayuki Tanaka;Masataka Fukugita;Masataka Fukugita;Masataka Fukugita;James E. Gunn

  • Matrix formulations for the transfer of solar radiation in a plane-parallel scattering atmosphere.

    T. Nakajima;M. Tanaka

  • The Hyper Suprime-Cam software pipeline

    James Bosch;Robert Armstrong;Steven Bickerton;Hisanori Furusawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexis Finoguenov
Alexis Finoguenov University of Helsinki
Thierry Contini
Thierry Contini Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology
Masamune Oguri
Masamune Oguri Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Karina Caputi
Karina Caputi University of Groningen
H. J. McCracken
H. J. McCracken Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
John D. Silverman
John D. Silverman University of Tokyo
A. Iovino
A. Iovino National Institute for Astrophysics
S. Bardelli
S. Bardelli National Institute for Astrophysics
Jean-Paul Kneib
Jean-Paul Kneib École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Anton M. Koekemoer
Anton M. Koekemoer Space Telescope Science Institute

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