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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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About: Tokyo Institute of Technology is a education organization based out in Tokyo, Tôkyô, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Thin film & Catalysis. The organization has 46775 authors who have published 101656 publications receiving 2357893 citations. The organization is also known as: Tokyo Tech & Tokodai.
Topics: Thin film, Catalysis, Polymerization, Laser, Phase (matter)
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TL;DR: In this article, the formation of close-in extrasolar giant planets through a coupling effect of mutual scattering, the Kozai mechanism, and tidal circularization, by orbital integrations was investigated.
Abstract: We have investigated the formation of close-in extrasolar giant planets through a coupling effect of mutual scattering, the Kozai mechanism, and tidal circularization, by orbital integrations. Close-in gas giants would have been originally formed at several AU beyond the ice lines in protoplanetary disks and migrated close to their host stars. Although type II migration due to planet-disk interactions may be a major channel for the migration, we show that this scattering process would also give a nonnegligible contribution. We carried out orbital integrations of three planets with Jupiter mass, directly including the effect of tidal circularization. We have found that in about 30% of the runs close-in planets are formed, which is much higher than suggested by previous studies. Three-planet orbit crossing usually results in the ejection of one or two planets. Tidal circularization often occurs during three-planet orbit crossing, but previous studies have monitored only the final stage after the ejection, significantly underestimating the formation probability. We have found that the Kozai mechanism in outer planets is responsible for the formation of close-in planets. During three-planet orbital crossing, Kozai excitation is repeated and the eccentricity is often increased secularly to values close enough to unity for tidal circularization to transform the inner planet to a close-in planet. Since a moderate eccentricity can retain for the close-in planet, this mechanism may account for the observed close-in planets with moderate eccentricities and without nearby secondary planets. Since these planets also remain a broad range of orbital inclinations (even retrograde ones), the contribution of this process would be clarified by more observations of Rossiter-McLaughlin effects for transiting planets.
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TL;DR: In this article, a tantalum oxynitride, TaON, was used as a photocatalyst for oxidation of water into O2 with a sacrificial electron acceptor (Ag+).
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TL;DR: In this paper, the infrared spectra of poly(acetylene), poly(d2), copoly(acety+acetylene-d2) and copoly (acetylene+acetane-d1+acetene-d 2) are reported over a wide temperature range (ca. −100 to 180°C) and a tentative assignment of the observed spectra is made on the basis of model structures in which infinite planar chains of all trans, all trans-cisoid, and all cis-transoid configurations are assumed.
Abstract: The infrared spectra of poly(acetylene), poly(acetylene-d2), copoly(acety+acetylene-d2), and copoly(acetylene+acetylene-d1+acetylene-d2) prepared by the Ti(OC4H9)4–Al(C2H5)3 system over a wide temperature range (ca. −100 to 180°C) are reported. A tentative assignment of the observed spectra is made on the basis of model structures in which infinite planar chains of all trans, all trans–cisoid, and all cis–transoid configurations are assumed. The spectral data are best interpreted on the basis of an all cis-transoid (or an all trans-cisoid) structure for the polymers prepared at temperatures lower than −78°C, and an all trans structure for the polymers prepared at temperatures higher than 150°C.Simplified calculations of the C-H and C-D out-of-plane deformation frequencies are made for various model chains. It has been concluded from a comparison of the observed and calculated frequencies that the cis-opening of the triple bond occurs in a polymerization reaction with the Ti(OC4H9)4–Al(C2H5)3 catalyst system at low temperatures.
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University of California, Los Angeles1, Scripps Institution of Oceanography2, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research3, National Center for Atmospheric Research4, Max Planck Society5, Centre national de la recherche scientifique6, Tokyo Institute of Technology7, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory8, Goddard Space Flight Center9, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts10
TL;DR: The seasonal cycle over the tropical Pacific simulated by 11 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models (GCMs) is examined in this paper, and the results show that current state-of-the-art coupled GCMs share important successes and troublesome systematic errors.
Abstract: The seasonal cycle over the tropical Pacific simulated by 11 coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models (GCMs) is examined. Each model consists of a high-resolution ocean GCM of either the tropical Pacific or near-global means coupled to a moderate- or high-resolution atmospheric GCM, without the use of flux correction. The seasonal behavior of sea surface temperature (SST) and eastern Pacific rainfall is presented for each model. The results show that current state-of-the-art coupled GCMs share important successes and troublesome systematic errors. All 11 models are able to simulate the mean zonal gradient in SST at the equator over the central Pacific. The simulated equatorial cold tongue generally tends to be too strong, too narrow, and extend too far west. SSTs are generally too warm in a broad region west of Peru and in a band near 10°S. This is accompanied in some models by a double intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) straddling the equator over the eastern Pacific, and in others...
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California Institute of Technology1, Pennsylvania State University2, National Radio Astronomy Observatory3, University of Hawaii4, Carnegie Institution for Science5, Hebrew University of Jerusalem6, Australian National University7, Pomona College8, University of Virginia9, University of Texas at Austin10, University of Copenhagen11, University of Toronto12, Tokyo Institute of Technology13, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan14, Kyoto University15, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory16, University of California, Berkeley17
TL;DR: In this article, the X-ray afterglow of a short-hard burst, GRB 050709, was found to be associated with a star-forming galaxy at redshift z = 0.160.
Abstract: The final chapter in the long-standing mystery of the γ-ray bursts (GRBs) centres on the origin of the short-hard class of bursts, which are suspected on theoretical grounds to result from the coalescence of neutron-star or black-hole binary systems. Numerous searches for the afterglows of short-hard bursts have been made, galvanized by the revolution in our understanding of long-duration GRBs that followed the discovery in 1997 of their broadband (X-ray, optical and radio) afterglow emission. Here we present the discovery of the X-ray afterglow of a short-hard burst, GRB 050709, whose accurate position allows us to associate it unambiguously with a star-forming galaxy at redshift z = 0.160, and whose optical lightcurve definitively excludes a supernova association. Together with results from three other recent short-hard bursts, this suggests that short-hard bursts release much less energy than the long-duration GRBs. Models requiring young stellar populations, such as magnetars and collapsars, are ruled out, while coalescing degenerate binaries remain the most promising progenitor candidates.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Matthew Meyerson | 194 | 553 | 243726 |
Yury Gogotsi | 171 | 956 | 144520 |
Masayuki Yamamoto | 171 | 1576 | 123028 |
H. Eugene Stanley | 154 | 1190 | 122321 |
Takashi Taniguchi | 152 | 2141 | 110658 |
Shu-Hong Yu | 144 | 799 | 70853 |
Kazunori Kataoka | 138 | 908 | 70412 |
Osamu Jinnouchi | 135 | 885 | 86104 |
Hector F. DeLuca | 133 | 1303 | 69395 |
Shlomo Havlin | 131 | 1013 | 83347 |
Hiroyuki Iwasaki | 131 | 1009 | 82739 |
Kazunari Domen | 130 | 908 | 77964 |
Hideo Hosono | 128 | 1549 | 100279 |
Hideyuki Okano | 128 | 1169 | 67148 |
Andreas Strasser | 128 | 509 | 66903 |