I came back to NAOJ in April 2011,
and will move out of NAOJ in April 2012.

Profiles

• Date of Birth: October 4, 1980 in Takatsuki, Osaka. Now I live in Chofu, Tokyo.
  
• 1999-2003, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University.
  2003-2008, Kwasan Observatory, Kyoto University.
  2006-2008, Hinode Science Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
  2008, Ph.D. (Science), "Observational Studies on Formation and Evolution of Solar Active Region Prominences"
2008-2009, Postdoctral fellow at Hinode Science Center, NAOJ.
2010-2011, Visiting scholar at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Stanford University
2009-, JSPS research fellow at Hinode Science Center, NAOJ.

• Details about me (in Japanese) --> Joten's page
• Science Operation Member of Solar Physics Satellite "Hinode"
• Part-time lecturer at Meisei University ("Plasma physics" and "Fluid dynamics")

Researches

• Citation count


• Invited talk
  
  • "Emergence of twisted flux in prominence observations", 4th Hinode Science Meeting (2010.10.12)


• "Propagating Waves along Spicules"
  
  • Okamoto and De Pontieu 2011, ApJ, 736, L24
  • ASJ Meeting (2011.9.21)
  • 5th Hinode Science Meeting (2011.10.12)


• "A Rising Cool Column as Signature for Helical Flux Emergence and Formation of Prominence and Coronal Cavity"
  
  • Okamoto et al. 2010, ApJ, 719, 583, movie
  • ASJ Meeting (2009.9.15)
  • 3rd Hinode Science Meeting (2009.12.01)
  • AGU Fall Meeting 2010 (2010.12.17)


• Active phenomenon of an active region prominence
  
  • ASJ Meeting (2008.9.12)


• "Emergence of a Helical Flux Rope under an Active Region Prominence"
  "Prominence Formation Associated with an Emerging Helical Flux Rope"
  
  • Okamoto et al. 2008, ApJ, 673, L215
  • Okamoto et al. 2009, ApJ, 697, 913
  • ASJ Meeting (2007.9.28)
  • Prominence Research: Observations and Models (PROM) Workshop 2007 (2007.10.29)
  • American Astronomical Society, Solar Physics Division (2008.5.30)
  • 5th Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (2008.6.16)
  • 2nd Hinode Science Meeting (2008.9.29-10.3)
  • Flux Emergence Workshop 2008 (2008.10.6-9)
  • ASJ Meeting (2009.03.26)


• "Coronal Transverse Magnetohydrodynamic Waves in a Solar Prominence"
  • Okamoto et al. 2007, Science, 318, 1577, movie
  • Press Release in NAOJ (2007.12.3)
  • 7th Space Science Symposium in ISAS (2006.12.21)
  • Alaska meeting on space weather (2007.3.18)
  • ASJ Meeting (2007.3.29)
  • Initial Results from Hinode -- Workshop in Memory of Takeo Kosugi (2007.4.26)
  • Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (2007.5.22)
  • American Astronomical Society 210th meeting / Solar Physics Division (2007.5.30)
  • Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2007.7.30)
  • International Astronomical Union Symposium 247 (2007.9.19)
  • International CAWSES Symposium (2007.10.23)
  • JPS Meeting (2009.03.30)


• "Examinations of the relative alignment of the instruments on SOT"
  • Okamoto et al. 2007, ASPC, 369, 47
  • 6th Solar-B Science Meeting (2005.11.08)
  • ASJ Meeting (2006.3.28)
  • Extended 17th SOT Meeting (2006.4.18)


• "Discovery of Super Long X-ray Filaments"
  • Okamoto et al., ApJ in revised
  • ASJ Meeting (2004.3.24)
  • Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2004.8.18)


• "Filament Oscillations and Moreton waves Associated with EIT waves"
  • Okamoto et al. 2004, ApJ, 608, 1124
  • Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (2003.5.28)
  • Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2003.7.30)
  • ASJ Meeting (2003.9.27)
  • 1st Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (2004.7.7)


• Joint refereed papers
  
  • Lites et al. 2010, ApJ, 718, 474
    "Emergence of Helical Flux and the Formation of an Active Region Filament Channel"
  • Berger et al. 2010, ApJ, 716, 1288
    "Quiescent Prominence Dynamics Observed with the Hinode Solar Optical Telescope. I. Turbulent Upflow Plumes"
  • Harra et al. 2010, Sol. Phys., 263, 105
    "Response of the Solar Atmosphere to the Emergence of 'Serpentine' Magnetic Field"
  • Lites et al. 2010, ApJ, 713, 450
    "Scattering Polarization in the Fe I 630 nm Emission Lines at the Extreme Limb of the Sun"
  • Ning et al. 2009, A&A, 499, 595
    "Small-scale oscillations in a quiescent prominence observed by HINODE/SOT. Prominence oscillations"
  • Nishizuka et al. 2008, ApJ, 683, L83
    "Giant Chromospheric Anemone Jet Observed with Hinode and Comparison with Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations:
    Evidence of Propagating Alfven Waves and Magnetic Reconnection"
  • Berger et al. 2008, ApJ, 676, L89
    "Hinode SOT Observations of Solar Quiescent Prominence Dynamics"
  • Shibata et al. 2007, Science, 318, 1591
    "Chromospheric Anemone Jets as Evidence of Ubiquitous Reconnection"
  • Nagashima et al. 2007, ApJ, 668, 533
    "Triggering Mechanism for the Filament Eruption on 2005 September 13 in NOAA Active Region 10808"

Miscellaneous

• Hinode movies made by Joten
• Ph.D. thesis
• drawclock.pro (version 7.1 - 2011 Dec. 29)

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Takenori Joten OKAMOTO
JSPS research fellow, Hinode Science Center, NAOJ