Kenji KUROSAKI
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Assistant Professor
@Graduate School of Science
@Faculty of Science
- e-mail: kenji.kurosaki(at)people.kobe-u.ac.jp
- Office: Science and Technology Bldg 3, Room 203
- Mailing address:
Department of Planetology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 657-8501, JAPAN
- Experimental Planetary Science Laboratory URL
Research Interests:
Space telescope observations have revealed the existence of many planets outside our solar system. Nowadays, we can constrain the atmospheric compositions of these exoplanets, characterize them based on their statistical properties, and estimate their evolutionary history, origin of formation, and current surface environment. The diversity of exoplanets differs greatly from the characteristics of the planets in our solar system, and these differences are due to differences in the planet formation process. Through studies of planetary interiors and atmospheric structures and numerical simulations of past astronomical impact events, I aim to gain a unified understanding of the formation processes of solar system and exoplanets and to clarify whether our solar system is universal or special in our galaxy.
Recent Publications:@
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Matsumoto, Y., Kokubo, E., Gu, P.-G., Kurosaki, K. (2021). "Size Evolution of Close-in Super-Earths through Giant Impacts and Photoevaporation.", The Astrophysical Journal 923.
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Ogihara, M., Hori, Y., Kunitomo, M., Kurosaki, K. (2021). "Formation of giant planets with large metal masses and metal fractions via giant impacts in a rapidly dissipating disk.", Astronomy and Astrophysics 648.
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Kurosaki, K., Inutsuka, S. (2019). "The Exchange of Mass and Angular Momentum in the Impact Event of Ice Giant Planets: Implications for the Origin of Uranus.", The Astronomical Journal 157.
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Kurosaki, K., Ikoma, M. (2017)., "Acceleration of Cooling of Ice Giants by Condensation in Early Atmospheres.", The Astronomical Journal 153.
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Fukui, A., Kawashima, Y., Ikoma, M., Narita, N., Onitsuka, M., Ita, Y., Onozato, H., Nishiyama, S., Baba, H., Ryu, T., Hirano, T., Hori, Y., Kurosaki, K., Kawauchi, K., Takahashi, Y. H., Nagayama, T., Tamura, M., Kawai, N., Kuroda, D., Nagayama, S., Ohta, K., Shimizu, Y., Yanagisawa, K., Yoshida, M., Izumiura, H., (2014). "Multi-band, Multi-epoch Observations of the Transiting Warm Jupiter WASP-80b.", The Astrophysical Journal 790.
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Kurosaki, K., Ikoma, M., Hori, Y. (2014)., "Impact of photo-evaporative mass loss on masses and radii of water-rich sub/super-Earths.", Astronomy and Astrophysics 562.
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Kawahara, H., Hirano, T., Kurosaki, K., Ito, Y., Ikoma, M. (2013). "Starspots-Transit Depth Relation of the Evaporating Planet Candidate KIC 12557548b.", The Astrophysical Journal 776.
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Narita, N., Fukui, A., Ikoma, M., Hori, Y., Kurosaki, K., Kawashima, Y., Nagayama, T., Onitsuka, M., Sukom, A., Nakajima, Y., Tamura, M., Kuroda, D., Yanagisawa, K., Hirano, T., Kawauchi, K., Kuzuhara, M., Ohnuki, H., Suenaga, T., Takahashi, Y. H., Izumiura, H., Kawai, N., Yoshida, M., (2013)., "Multi-color Transit Photometry of GJ 1214b through BJHKs Bands and a Long-term Monitoring of the Stellar Variability of GJ 1214", The Astrophysical Journal 773.
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Fukui, A., Narita, N., Kurosaki, K., Ikoma, M., Yanagisawa, K., Kuroda, D., Shimizu, Y., Takahashi, Y. H., Ohnuki, H., Onitsuka, M., Hirano, T., Suenaga, T., Kawauchi, K., Nagayama, S., Ohta, K., Yoshida, M., Kawai, N., Izumiura, H., (2013)., "Optical-to-near-infrared Simultaneous Observations for the Hot Uranus GJ3470b: A Hint of a Cloud-free Atmosphere.", The Astrophysical Journal 770.
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