A Booklet for External Review Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo and Institute of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo January 14, 2020 Contents Chapter 1 Introduction 7 Chapter 2 Organization 9 Chapter 3 Education 11 3.1 Admission of Students . 11 3.2 Financial Support . 12 3.3 Paths after Graduation . 12 3.4 Lectures for undergraduate students . 12 3.5 Lectures for graduate students . 15 3.6 Recent master and doctor theses . 20 Chapter 4 Research Activities 29 4.1 Statistics . 29 4.2 Competitive research funds . 29 Chapter 5 Research Highlights 37 5.1 Tomonori Totani . 37 5.1.1 The Subaru FMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey (FastSound) to Probe the Cosmic Acceleration . 37 5.1.2 On the Origin of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts . 38 5.2 Motohide Tamura . 39 5.2.1 Exoplanet Instrumentations . 39 5.2.2 K2/TESS and Other Transiting Planet Detection and Characterization . 41 5.2.3 Circular and Linear Polarization Survey of Star Forming Regions . 41 5.3 Yuri Aikawa . 43 5.3.1 Isotope fractionation in the star-forming regions and protoplanetary disks . 43 5.3.2 Complex organic molecules in protoplanetary disks . 44 5.4 Nobunari Kashikawa . 45 5.4.1 High-z protocluster survey by Subaru/HSC . 45 5.4.2 Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs) . 45 5.5 Kazuhiro Shimasaku . 47 5.5.1 Galaxy evolution . 47 5.5.2 Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey . 47 5.6 Hideyuki Umeda . 49 5.6.1 The Final Fates of Accreting Supermassive Stars . 49 5.6.2 A progenitor model of SN 1987A based on the slow-merger scenario . 49 5.7 Michiko Fujii . 50 5.7.1 Dynamical evolution of star clusters and galaxies . 50 5.8 Masao Takata . 53 5.8.1 Rosette Modes of Oscillation in Rotating Stars . 53 5.8.2 Asymptotic Analysis of Oscillations in Red-Giant Stars . 53 5.8.3 Asteroseismic Study of Internal Rotation of Stars . 54 5.9 Itsuki Sakon . 55 5.9.1 The study of Mid-infrared Spectrometer and Camera (MISC) for Origins Space Telescope for US 2020 Decadal Survey . 55 5.9.2 Laboratory Astrophysics and Space Exposure Experiment using International Space Station(ISS)/ExHAM 56 5.9.3 Infrared Observation of Dusty Novae . 57 3 4 CONTENTS 5.10 Noriyuki Matsunaga . 58 5.10.1 The structure of the Milky Way and stellar populations therein . 58 5.10.2 Near-infrared high-resolution spectroscopy . 59 5.11 Mamoru Doi . 61 5.11.1 Properties of Type-Ia Supernovae . 61 5.11.2 Local environment of the Core-Collapse Supernova . 61 5.11.3 Isophote Shapes of Early-type Galaxies . 62 5.12 Kotaro Kohno (and IoA radio astronomy group) . 63 5.12.1 Deep galaxy surveys using ALMA . 63 5.12.2 Interstellar medium in galaxies and quasars in the EoR . 63 5.12.3 Physical and chemical properties of giant molecular clouds in the Milky Way and galaxies . 64 5.12.4 Development of new observing instruments and techniques . 65 5.13 Takashi Miyata, Takafumi Kamizuka, Kentaro Asano . 67 5.13.1 Development of Field Stacker for precise monitoring in MIR . 67 5.13.2 Structure of protoplanetary disks . 67 5.13.3 Studies on solar system objects . 67 5.13.4 Dust formation and alteration processes around young and evolved stars . 67 5.14 Masuo Tanaka . 69 5.14.1 Near-infrared Narrow-band Imaging Observations in the 1.87 and 2.07 µm of Massive Star Clusters with miniTAO at Atacama: Classification of Stellar Components . 69 5.15 Naoto Kobayashi . 70 5.15.1 NIR High-resolution Spectroscopy of Optical Quality with WINERED . 70 5.15.2 Near-infrared DIBs . 70 5.15.3 Developement of Immersion Grating . 71 5.16 Kentaro Motohara . 73 5.16.1 Star Formation Activities in Nearby LIRGs Probed by Paschenα Imaging . 73 5.16.2 Development of Integral Field Unit for SWIMS . 73 5.17 Takeo Minezaki . 75 5.17.1 Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei . 75 5.17.2 Development of Optical Adaptive Optics for Small Telescopes . 76 5.18 Toshihiko Tanab´e. 77 5.18.1 Search for the MOLsphere . 77 5.19 Shigeyuki Sako . 78 5.19.1 Development of Tomo-e Gozen: Kiso Wide-field Video Observation System . 78 5.19.2 Observations of the solar system small bodies with Tomo-e Gozen . 78 5.19.3 Observations of faint meteors with Tomo-e Gozen . 79 5.19.4 Development of data-driven approaches toward astronomical big data . 80 5.20 Tomoki Morokuma . 82 5.20.1 Electromagnetic Counterpart Identification of Gravitational Wave Sources . 82 5.20.2 Electromagnetic Counterpart Identification of High-Energy Neutrino Sources . 82 5.20.3 Effective Selection of Low-Mass Black Holes via Optical Rapid Variability . 83 5.21 Bunyo Hatsukade . 84 5.21.1 A Census of the Population of Faint Submillimeter Sources . 84 5.21.2 Host Galaxies of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) . 85 5.21.3 Commissioning of a New 2-mm Receiver and Spectrometer System on LMT . 85 5.22 Fumi Egusa . 86 5.22.1 Lifetime of Spiral Arms in Nearby Galaxies . 86 5.22.2 Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Nearby Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 . 87 5.22.3 Molecular Gas Properties in the Nearby Barred Spiral Galaxy M 83 from PDF Analysis . 87 5.23 Masahiro Konishi . 89 5.23.1 The evaluation of atmospheric transmittance in the NIR at the TAO site . 89 5.23.2 TAO enclosure design and wind analysis . 89 5.24.