Evolutional processes of solid bodies from dust particles to planets.
Recent Publications:
Omura, T., Nakamura, A. M. (2018), Estimating the Porosity Structure of Granular Bodies Using the Lane-Emden Equation Applied to Laboratory Measurements of the Pressure-Density Relation of Fluffy Granular Samples,Ap. J.860, 123 (7pp).
Okamoto, T., Nakamura, A. M. Scaling of impact-generated cavity-size for highly porous targets and its application to cometary surfaces, Icarus,292, 234-244. (2017)
Nakamura, A. M., Yamane, F., Okamoto, T., Takasawa, S. (2015) Size dependence of the disruption threshod: Laboratory examination of millimeter-centimeter porous targets, Planet. Space Sci., 107, 45-52.
Nakamura, A. M., Setoh, M., Wada, K., Yamashita, Y., and Sangen, K. (2013), Impact and intrusion experiments on the deceleration of low-velocity impactors by small-body regolith, Icarus 223, 222-233.
Takasawa, S., Nakamura, A. M., Kadono, T., Arakawa, M., Dohi, K., Ohno, S., Seto, Y., Maeda, M., Shigemori, K., Hironaka, Y., Sakaiya, T., Fujioka, S., Sano, T., Otani, K., Watari, T., Sangen, K., Setoh, M., Machii, N., and Takeuchi, T. (2011), Silicate dust size distribution from hypervelocity collisions: Implications for dust production in debris discs, Ap. J. 733L39.
Nakamura, A. M., Michikami, T., Hirata, N., Fujiwara, A., Nakamura, R., Ishiguro, M., Miyamoto, H., Demura, H., Hiraoka, K., Honda, T., Honda, C., Saito, J., Hashimoto, T., Kubota, T. (2008), Impact process of boulders on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa -Fragments from collisional disruption, Earth Planets Space 60, 7-12.