Publication List
Table of Contents
- Results (Akatsuki's data are used for analysis)
- Results (Akatsuki's data are not used for analysis, but related to Akatsuki mission by Akatsuki team members)
- Data Pipeline
- Science Instruments
- Related to trajectory and orbits
- Operations for each system
- Technologies used in PLANET-C
- Project Overview
- Others
Results (Akatsuki's data are used for analysis)
- Yamada, T., T. Imamura, T. Fukuhara, M. Taguchi, Influence of the cloud-level neutral layer on the vertical propagation of topographically generated gravity waves on Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 71, 123, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1106-7, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Imai, M., T. Kouyama, Y. Takahashi, A. Yamazaki, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, T. Horinouchi, Planetary‐scale variations in winds and UV brightness at the Venusian cloud top: Periodicity and temporal evolution, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006065, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Lee, Y.-J., K.-L. Jessup, S. Perez-Hoyos, D. V. Titov, S. Lebonnois, J. Peralta, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, S. Limaye, E. Marcq, M. Takagi, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, W. M. McClintock, G. Holsclaw, A. Roman, Long-term Variations of Venus's 365 nm Albedo Observed by Venus Express, Akatsuki, MESSENGER, and the Hubble Space Telescope, AJ, 158, 126, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3120, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Gonçalves, R., P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, S. Watanabe, A. Yamazaki, T. Satoh, M Takagi, K. Ogohara, Y.-J. Lee, A Harutyunyan, J. Silva, Venus' cloud top wind study: coordinated Akatsuki/UVI with cloud tracking and TNG/HARPS-N with Doppler velocimetry observations, Icarus, 335, 113418, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113418, 2019. URL
- Kouyama, T., M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, T. M. Sato, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, Y.-J. Lee, M. Futaguchi, T. Yamada, M. Akiba, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Global structure of thermal tides in the upper cloud layer of Venus revealed by LIR onboard Akatsuki, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 9457-9465, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083820, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Lorenz, R. D., M. Imai, Y. Takahashi, M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Constraints on Venus Lightning from Akatsuki's first Three Years in Orbit, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 7955-7961, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083311, 2019. URL
- Kopparla, P., Y.-J. Lee, T. Imamura, A. Yamazaki, Principal components of short-term variability in the ultraviolet albedo of Venus, A&A, 626, A30, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935388, 2019. URL
- Peralta, J., A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Horinouchi, K. McGouldrick, I. Garate-Lopez, E. F. Young, M. A. Bullock, Y.-J. Lee, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, S. S. Limaye, New cloud morphologies discovered on the Venus's night during Akatsuki, Icarus, 333, 177-182, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.05.026, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Kitahara, T., T. Imamura, T. M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, Y.-J. Lee, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Kouyama, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Ogohara, H. Kashimura, T. Horinouchi, M. Takagi, Stationary features at the cloud top of Venus observed by Ultraviolet Imager onboard Akatsuki, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, 1266-1281, doi:10.1029/2018JE005842, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Peralta, J., N. Iwagami, A. Sánchez‐Lavega, Y.-J. Lee, R. Hueso, M. Narita, T. Imamura, P. Miles, A. Wesley, E. Kardasis, S. Takagi, Morphology and Dynamics of Venus's Middle Clouds With Akatsuki/IR1, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 2399-2407, doi:10.1029/2018GL081670, 2019. URL (Open Access), Post in AGU Blogosphere
- Singh, D., Venus nightside surface temperature, Scientific Reports, 9:1137, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38117-x, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Kashimura, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, W. Ohfuchi, T. Enomoto, K. Nakajima, M. Ishiwatari, T. M. Sato, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Satoh, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Planetary-scale streak structure reproduced in high-resolution simulations of the Venus atmosphere with a low-stability layer, Nature Communications, 10, Article number: 23, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07919-y, 2019. URL (Open Access), Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in Japanese), Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in English), Press Release (Kobe Univ., in Japanese), Press Release (Kobe Univ., in English)
- Peralta, J., K. Muto, R. Hueso, T. Horinouchi, A. Sánchez-Lavega, S. Murakami, P. Machado, E. F. Young, Y.-J. Lee, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, K. McGouldrick, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, S. S. Limaye, T. M. Sato, K. Ogohara, M. Nakamura, D. Luz, Nightside Winds at the Lower Clouds of Venus with Akatsuki/IR2: Longitudinal, Local Time, and Decadal Variations from Comparison with Previous Measurements, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 239, 29, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Ando, H., M. Takagi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, N. Sugimoto, H. Sagawa, K. Noguchi, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, A. Yamazaki, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, R. Choudhary, K. Kumar, G. Ramkumar, M. Antonita, Local Time Dependence of the Thermal Structure in the Venusian Equatorial Upper Atmosphere: Comparison of Akatsuki Radio Occultation Measurements and GCM Results, J. Geophys. Res: Planets, 123, 2270-2280, doi:10.1029/2018JE005640, 2018. URL
- Limaye, S. S., D. Grassi, A. Mahieux, A. Migliorini, S. Tellmann, D. Titov, Venus Atmospheric Thermal Structure and Radiative Balance, Space Sci. Rev., 214:102, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0525-2, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Imamura, T., M. Miyamoto, H. Ando, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, S. Tellmann, T. Tsuda, Y. Aoyama, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, A. Yamazaki, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, Fine Vertical Structures at the Cloud Heights of Venus Revealed by Radio Holographic Analysis of Venus Express and Akatsuki Radio Occultation Data, J. Geophys. Res: Planets, 123, 2151-2161, doi:10.1029/2018JE005627, 2018. URL
- Takahashi, Y., M. Sato, M. Imai, R. Lorenz, Y. Yair, K. Aplin, G. Fischer, M. Nakamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, N. Hirata, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, Initiation of a lightning search using the lightning and airglow camera onboard the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 88, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0836-2, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Limaye, S. S., S. Watanabe, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, T. Satoh, T. M. Sato, M. Nakamura, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, T. Kouyama, Y.-J. Lee, T. Horinouchi, J. Peralta, N. Iwagami, G. L. Hashimoto, S. Takagi, S. Ohtsuki, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, N. Ishii, T. Abe, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, N. Hirata, E. F. Young, A. C. Ocampo, Venus looks different from day to night across wavelengths: morphology from Akatsuki multispectral images, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 24, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0789-5, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Yamazaki, A., M. Yamada, Y.-J. Lee, S. Watanabe, T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, T. Imamura, T. M. Sato, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, S. Takagi, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, N. Hirata, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Suzuki, C. Hirose, M. Ueno, T. Satoh, T. Abe, N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, Ultraviolet imager on Venus orbiter Akatsuki and its initial results, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 23, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0772-6, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., T. Kouyama, Y. J. Lee, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, K. Nakajima, J. Peralta, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, Mean winds at the cloud top of Venus obtained from two-wavelength UV imaging by Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 10, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0775-3, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Iwagami, N., T. Sakanoi, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Sawai, S. Ohtsuki, S. Takagi, K. Uemizu, M. Ueno, S. Kameda, S. Murakami, M. Nakamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, N. Hirata, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, M. Yamada, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, T. Kouyama, Initial products of Akatsuki 1-μm camera, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 6, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0773-5, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, M. Futaguchi, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Ueno, N. Iwagami, S. Takagi, M. Takagi, K. Ogohara, H. Kashimura, T. Horinouchi, N. Sato, M. Yamada, Y. Yamamoto, S. Ohtsuki, K. Sugiyama, H. Ando, M. Takamura, T. Yamada. T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Topographical and Local Time Dependence of Large Stationary Gravity Waves Observed at the Cloud Top of Venus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 12,98-12,105, doi:10.1002/2017GL075792, 2017. URL
- Imamura, T., H. Ando, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, K. Noguchi, Y. Futaana, J. Oschlisniok, S. Limaye, R. K. Choudhary, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, C. Hirose, T. Ichikawa, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, T. Abe, Z. Yamamoto, H. Noda, T. Iwata, S. Murakami, T. Satoh, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, S. Takagi, Y. Yamamoto, N. Hirata, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Yamada, M. Suzuki, N. Ishii, T. Hayashiyama, Y. J. Lee, M. Nakamura, Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 137, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0722-3, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Satoh, J. Peralta, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, T. Imamura, H. Kashimura, S. S. Limaye, K. McGouldrick, M. Nakamura, T. M. Sato, K. Sugiyama, M. Takagi, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, E. F. Young, Corrigendum: Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki, Nature Geoscience, 10, 798, doi:10.1038/ngeo3034, 2017. URL
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Satoh, J. Peralta, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, T. Imamura, H. Kashimura, S. S. Limaye, K. McGouldrick, M. Nakamura, T. M. Sato, K. Sugiyama, M. Takagi, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, E. F. Young, Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki, Nature Geoscience, 10, 646-651, doi:10.1038/ngeo3016, 2017. URL, Press Release (JAXA, in Japanese), Press Release (Hokkaido Univ., in Japanese)
- Lee, Y. J., A. Yamazaki, T. Imamura, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, T. M. Sato, K. Ogohara, G. L. Hashimoto, S. Murakami, Scattering Properties of the Venusian Clouds Observed by the UV Imager on board Akatsuki, The Astronomical Journal, 154, 44 (16pp), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa78a5, 2017. URL
- Fukuhara, T., M. Futaguchi, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, N. Iwagami, T. Kouyama, S. Murakami, M. Nakamura, K. Ogohara, M. Sato, T. M. Sato, M. Suzuki, M. Taguchi, S. Takagi, M. Ueno, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus, Nature Geoscience, 10, 85-88, doi:10.1038/ngeo2873, 2017. URL, Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in Japanese) Press Release (Rikkyo Univ., in Japanese)
- Ando, H., D. Shiota, T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, A. Asai, H. Isobe, M. Päzold, B. Häusler, M. Nakamura, Internal structure of a coronal mass ejection revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 5318-5328, doi:10.1002/2015JA021076, 2015. URL
- Satoh, T., S. Ohtsuki, N. Iwagami, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Sakanoi, Y. Kasaba, R. Nakamura, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Fukuhara, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, Venus' clouds as inferred from the phase curves acquired by IR1 and IR2 on board Akatsuki, Icarus, 248, 213-220, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.030, 2015. URL
- Miyamoto, M., T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, H. Ando, H. Isobe, A. Asai, D. Shiota, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, M. Nakamura, Radial distribution of compressive waves in the solar corona revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, Astrophys. J., 797, 51, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/51, 2014. URL
- Imamura, T., M. Tokumaru, H. Isobe, D. Shiota, H. Ando, M. Miyamoto, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, A. Asai, K. Yaji, M. Yamada, M. Nakamura, Outflow structure of the quiet Sun corona probed by spacecraft radio scintillations in strong scattering, Astrophys. J., 788, 117, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/788/2/117, 2014. URL
- Taguchi, M. T. Fukuhara, M. Futaguchi, M. Sato, T. Imamura, K. Mitsuyama, M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, N. Iwagami, G. L. Hashimoto, Characteristic features in Venus' nightside cloud-top temperature obtained by Akatsuki/LIR, Icarus, 219, 502-509, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.024, 2012. URL
Results (Akatsuki's data are not used for analysis, but related to Akatsuki mission by Akatsuki team members)
- Sugimoto, N., T. Kouyama, M. Takagi, Impact of Data Assimilation on Thermal Tides in the Case of Venus Express Wind Observation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 4573-4580, doi:10.1029/2019GL082700, 2019. URL
- Nara, Y., T. Imamura, S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, M. Yamada, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, N. Sato, Formation of the Y feature at the Venusian cloud top by planetary-scale waves and the mean circulation: analysis of Venus Express VMC images, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, 1143-1156, doi:10.1029/2018JE005779, 2019. URL
- Lorenz, R. D., Lightning detection on Venus: a critical review, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 5:34, doi:10.1186/s40645-018-0181-x, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Taylor, F. W., H. Svedhem, J. W. Head III, Venus: The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment of an Earth-Like Planet, Space Sci. Rev., 214:35, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0467-8, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Takagi, M., N. Sugimoto, H. Ando, Y. Matsuda, Three‐Dimensional Structures of Thermal Tides Simulated by a Venus GCM, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 123, 335-352, doi:10.1002/2017JE005449, 2018. URL
- Lorenz, R. D., D. Crisp, L. Huber, Venus atmospheric structure and dynamics from the VEGA lander and balloons: New results and PDS archive, Icarus, 305, 277-283, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.12.044, 2018, URL
- McGouldrick, K., Effects of variation in coagulation and photochemistry parameters on the particle size distributions in the Venus clouds, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 161, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0744-x, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Sánchez-Lavega, A., S. Lebonnois, T. Imamura, P. Read, D. Luz, The Atmospheric Dynamics of Venus, Space Sci. Rev., 212, 1541-1616, doi:10.1007/s11214-017-0389-x, 2017. URL
- Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, K. McGouldrick, H. Sagawa, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Imamura, T. Widemann, M. Nakamura, Overview of useful spectral regions for Venus: An update to encourage observations complementary to the Akatsuki mission, Icarus, 288, 235-239, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.01.027, 2017. URL
- Sánchez-Lavega, A., J. Peralta, J. M. Gomez-Forrellad, R. Hueso, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Mendikoa, J. F. Rojas, T. Horinouchi, Y. J. Lee, S. Watanabe, Venus cloud morphology and motions from ground-based images at the time of the Akatsuki orbit insertion, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 833, L7, doi:10.3847/2041-8205/833/1/L7, 2016. URL
- Navarro, T., G. Schubert, S. Lebonnois, Author Correction: Atmospheric mountain wave generation on Venus and its influence on the solid planet’s rotation rate, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0257-7, 2018. URL
- Navarro, T., G. Schubert, S. Lebonnois, Atmospheric mountain wave generation on Venus and its influence on the solid planet’s rotation rate, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0157-x, 2018. URL
- Peralta, J., R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, Y. J. Lee, A. García Muñoz, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, T. M. Sato, G. Piccioni, S. Tellmann, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, Stationary waves and slowly moving features in the night upper clouds of Venus, Nature Astronomy 1, 0187, doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0187, 2017. URL, Press Release (JAXA), Press Release (ESA)
- Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, R. Hueso, R. T. Clancy, B. J. Sandor, A. Sánchez-Lavega, E. Lellouch, M. Rengel, P. Machado, M. Omino, A. Piccialli, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, D. Luz, D. Peach, Venus's winds and temperatures during the MESSENGER's flyby: An approximation to a three-dimensional instantaneous state of the atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 3907-3915, doi:10.1002/2017GL072900, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Sugimoto, N., A. Yamazaki, T. Kouyama, H. Kashimura, T. Enomoto, M. Takagi, Development of an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system for the Venusian atmosphere, Scientific Reports, 7, 9321, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09461-1, 2017. URL
- Ando, H., T. Imamura, N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, Y. Matsuda, Vertical structure of the axi‐asymmetric temperature disturbance in the Venusian polar atmosphere: Comparison between radio occultation measurements and GCM results, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 1687-1703, doi:10.1002/2016JE005213, 2017. URL
- Peralta, J., M. A. López-Valverde, G. Gilli, A. Piccialli, Dayside temperatures in the Venus upper atmosphere from Venus Express/VIRTIS nadir measurements at 4.3 μm, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 585, A53, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527191, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Ando, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, T. Imamura, Y. Matsuda, The puzzling Venusian polar atmospheric structure reproduced by a general circulation model, Nature Communications, 7, 10398. doi:10.1038/ncomms10398, 2016. URL
- Kouyama, T., A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, T. Imamura, A method to estimate optical distortion using planetary images, Planet. Space Sci., 86, 86-90, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2013.06.027, 2013. URL
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, Y. Futaana, Long-term variation in the cloud-tracked zonal velocities at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Venus Express VMC images, J. Geophys. Res. Planets 118, 37-46, doi:10.1029/2011JE004013, 2013. URL
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, Y. Futaana, Horizontal structure of planetary-scale waves at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Galileo SSI images with an improved cloud-tracking technique, Planet. Space Sci., 60, 207-216, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2011.08.008, 2012. URL
Data Pipeline
- Ogohara, K., M. Takagi, S. Murakami, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamada, T. Kouyama, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Imamura, Y. Yamamoto, H. Kashimura, N. Hirata, N. Sato, A. Yamazaki, T. Satoh, N. Iwagami, M. Taguchi, S. Watanabe, T. M. Sato, S. Ohtsuki, T. Fukuhara, M. Futaguchi, T. Sakanoi, S. Kameda, K. Sugiyama, H. Ando, Y. J. Lee, M. Nakamura, M. Suzuki, C. Hirose, N. Ishii, T. Abe, Overview of Akatsuki data products: definition of data levels, method and accuracy of geometric correction, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 167, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0749-5, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, Image velocimetry for clouds with relaxation labeling based on deformation consistency, Meas. Sci. Technol., 28, 085301, doi:10.1088/1361-6501/aa695c, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Ikegawa, S., T. Horinouchi, Improved automatic estimation of winds at the cloud top of Venus using superposition of cross-correlation surfaces, Icarus, 271, 98-119, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.018, 2016. URL
- Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, Automated cloud tracking system for the Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter data, Icarus, 217, 661-668, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.017, 2012. URL
- Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, A newly developed cloud tracking system for the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki and preliminary results using Venus Express data, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Japan, 60, 193-202, doi:10.11345/nctam.60.193, 2012. URL
Science Instruments
- Satoh, T., T. M. Sato, M. Nakamura, Y. Kasaba, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, A. Yamazaki, T. Enomoto, Y. Sakurai, K. Takami, K. Sawai, T. Nakakushi, T. Abe, N. Ishii, C. Hirose, N. Hirata, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, Performance of Akatsuki/IR2 in Venus orbit: the first year, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 154, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0736-x, 2017 URL (Open Access)
- Fukuhara, T, M. Taguchi, T. Imamura, A. Hayashitani, T. Yamada, M. Futaguchi, T. Kouyama, T. M. Sato, M. Takamura, N. Iwagami, M. Nakamura, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Sato, S. Takagi, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, C. Hirose, N. Hirata, Absolute calibration of brightness temperature of the Venus disk observed by the Longwave Infrared Camera onboard Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 69:141, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0727-y, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Satoh, T. M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, T. Imamura, Y. Kasaba, S. Yoshida, M. Kimata, Development and in-flight calibration of IR2: 2-μm camera onboard Japan's Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:74, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0451-z, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Fukuhara, T., M. Taguchi, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, N. Iwagami, M. Sato, K. Mitsuyama, G. L. Hashimoto, R. Ohshima, T. Kouyama, H. Ando, M. Futaguchi, LIR: Longwave Infrared Camera onboard the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.019, 1009-1018, 2011. URL
- Iwagami, N., S. Takagi, S. Ohtsuki, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, T. Satoh, T. Sakanoi, G. L. Hashimoto, Science requirements and description of the 1 μm camera onboard the Akatsuki Venus Orbiter, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 487-492, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.03.007, 2011. URL
- Takagi, S., N. Iwagami, Contrast sources for the infrared images taken by the Venus mission AKATSUKI, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 435-442, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.01.007, 2011. URL
- Imamura, T., T. Toda, A. Tomiki, D. Hirahara, T. Hayashiyama, N. Mochizuki, Z. Yamamoto, T. Abe, T. Iwata, H. Noda, Y. Futaana, H. Ando, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, Radio occultation experiment of the Venus atmosphere and ionosphere with the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 493-501, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.03.009, 2011. URL (Open Access)
- Takahashi, Y., J. Yoshida, Y. Yair, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, Lightning detection by LAC onboard the Japanese Venus climate orbiter, Planet-C, Space Sci. Rev., 137, 317-334, doi:10.1007/s11214-008-9400-x., 2008. URL
- Taguchi, M., T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, N. Iwagami, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Mitsuyama, Longwave infrared camera onboard the Venus Climate Orbiter, Adv. Space Res., 40, 861-868, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.085, 2007. URL
Related to trajectory and orbits
- Campagnola, S., Y. Kawakatsu, Design of the Recovery Trajectory for JAXA Venus Orbiter Akatsuki, J. Astronaut. Sci., 62, 298-314, doi:10.1007/s40295-015-0074-9, 2015. URL
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada The Trajectory Control Strategies of Akatsuki for Venus Orbit Reinsertion, AAS13-388, Volume 148 of the Advances in the Astronautical Sciences Series, AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting Feb. 10-14, 2013, Kauai, HI.
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, H. Terada, The trajectory control strategies of Akatsuki for Venus orbit reinsertion, in: advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 148, 2909-2918, 2013.
- Hirose, C, N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada, The trajectory control strategies for Akatsuki re-insertion into the Venus orbit, In: Proceedings of the 23rd international symposium on space flight dynamics, 2012
- Kawakatsu, Y., S. Campagnola, C. Hirose, N. Ishii, An orbit plan toward Akatsuki Venus reencounter and orbit injection, Adv. Astronaut. Sci., 143(II), 1535-1547, 2012. Also paper AAS 12-205
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, T. Yamamoto, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada, M. Ebara, The Trajectory Design Strategies for Akatsuki Mission, Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech. Japan, Vol. 10, No. ists28, pp. To_3_1-To_3_5, doi:10.2322/tastj.10.To_3_1, 2012. URL
Operations for each system
- Toyota, H., N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, H. Ooto, K. Koide, T. Sakamoto, H. Abe, H. Yoshino, H. Takamura, T. Ose, Y. Nozaki, On-Orbit Operations Of A Power System For Japan's Venus Explorer Akatsuki, 11th European Space Power Conference, 3-7 October 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Technologies used in PLANET-C
- Toda T., T. Hayashiyama, Y. Kamata, N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, Flight model development of PLANET-C telecommunication subsystem. The 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Space Technology Japan 8, No.ists27:Tj_17-Tj_22, 2010.
- Oto, H., K. Ohira, M. Yamamoto, T. Eguro, H. Toyota, M. Uno, K. Hirose, M. Tajima, Development of Lithium-Ion Battery for the Venus Climate Orbiter "PLANET-C", Proceedings of the 8th European Space Power Conference, held on 14-19 September 2008 at Constance in Germany. Edited by H. Lacoste and L. Ouwehand. ESA-SP Vol. 661. ISBN: 978-92-9221-225-4, 2008, id.103
- Toyota, H., T. Shimada, K. Higuchi, M. Uno, K. Hirose, M. Tajima, N. Ishii, M. Imaizumi, Y. Nozaki, N, Kaneko, M. Konno, Venus Climate Orbiter PLANET-C Solar Array Development, Proceedings of the 8th European Space Power Conference, held on 14-19 September 2008 at Constance in Germany. Edited by H. Lacoste and L. Ouwehand. ESA-SP Vol. 661. ISBN: 978-92-9221-225-4, 2008, id.36
- Takada, J., S. Senda, H. Hihara, M. Hamai, T. Oshima, S. Hagino, M. Suzuki, S. Ichikawa, A fast progressive lossless image compression method for space and satellite images, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2007, IEEE International, 479-481, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422835, 2007. URL
Project Overview
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, M. Imai, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Kashimura, K. Sugiyama, T. Sakanoi, H. Ando, S. Murakami, T. M. Sato, S. Takagi, K. Nakajima, J. Peralta, Y. J. Lee, J. Nakatsuka, T. Ichikawa, K. Inoue, T. Toda, H. Toyota, S. Tachikawa, S. Narita, T. Hayashiyama, A. Hasegawa, Y. Kamata, AKATSUKI returns to Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:75, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0457-6, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Nakamura, M., Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, K. Ogohara, K. Uemizu, T. Fukuhara, S. Ohtsuki, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, J. Nakatsuka, N. Iwagami, M. Taguchi, S. Watanabe, Y. Takahashi, G. L. Hashimoto, H. Yamamoto, Return to Venus of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI, Acta Astronautica, 93, 384-389, doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.07.027, 2014. URL, preprint (arXiv:1709.09353)
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, N. Hoshino, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, N. Okada, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Overview of Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 443-457, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.02.009, 2011. URL (Open Access)
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, M. Ueno, N. Iwagami, T. Satoh, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, Y. Takahashi, M. Suzuki, T. Abe, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Sakanoi, S. Okano, Y. Kasaba, J. Yoshida, M. Yamada, N. Ishii, T. Yamada, K.-I. Oyama, Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan, Planet. Space Sci., 55, 1831-1842, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009, 2007. URL
- Ishii, N., H. Yamakawa, S. Sawai, M. Shida, T. Hashimoto, M. Nakamura, T. Imamura, T. Abe, K.-I. Oyama, I. Nakatani, Current status of the PLANET-C Venus orbiter design, Adv. Space Res., 34, 1668-1672, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2004.07.006, 2004. URL
- Oyama, K.-I., T. Imamura, T. Abe, Feasibility study for Venus atmosphere mission, Adv. Space Res., 29, 265-271, doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(01)00577-4, 2002. URL
Others
- Nakamura, M., D. Titov, K. McGouldrick, P. Drossart, J.-L. Bertaux, H. Liu, Special issue "Akatsuki at Venus: The First Year of Scientific Operation", Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 144, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0916-3, 2018. URL (Open Access, not peer-reviewed)
- Glaze, L. S., C. F. Wilson, L. V. Zasova, M. Nakamura, S. Limaye, Future of Venus Research and Exploration, Space Sci. Rev., 214:89, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0528-z, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Results (Akatsuki's data are used for analysis)
- Results (Akatsuki's data are not used for analysis, but related to Akatsuki mission by Akatsuki team members)
- Data Pipeline
- Science Instruments
- Related to trajectory and orbits
- Operations for each system
- Technologies used in PLANET-C
- Project Overview
- Others
Results (Akatsuki's data are used for analysis)
- Yamada, T., T. Imamura, T. Fukuhara, M. Taguchi, Influence of the cloud-level neutral layer on the vertical propagation of topographically generated gravity waves on Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 71, 123, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-019-1106-7, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Imai, M., T. Kouyama, Y. Takahashi, A. Yamazaki, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, T. Horinouchi, Planetary‐scale variations in winds and UV brightness at the Venusian cloud top: Periodicity and temporal evolution, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006065, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Lee, Y.-J., K.-L. Jessup, S. Perez-Hoyos, D. V. Titov, S. Lebonnois, J. Peralta, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, S. Limaye, E. Marcq, M. Takagi, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, W. M. McClintock, G. Holsclaw, A. Roman, Long-term Variations of Venus's 365 nm Albedo Observed by Venus Express, Akatsuki, MESSENGER, and the Hubble Space Telescope, AJ, 158, 126, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3120, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Gonçalves, R., P. Machado, T. Widemann, J. Peralta, S. Watanabe, A. Yamazaki, T. Satoh, M Takagi, K. Ogohara, Y.-J. Lee, A Harutyunyan, J. Silva, Venus' cloud top wind study: coordinated Akatsuki/UVI with cloud tracking and TNG/HARPS-N with Doppler velocimetry observations, Icarus, 335, 113418, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113418, 2019. URL
- Kouyama, T., M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, T. M. Sato, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, Y.-J. Lee, M. Futaguchi, T. Yamada, M. Akiba, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Global structure of thermal tides in the upper cloud layer of Venus revealed by LIR onboard Akatsuki, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 9457-9465, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083820, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Lorenz, R. D., M. Imai, Y. Takahashi, M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Constraints on Venus Lightning from Akatsuki's first Three Years in Orbit, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 7955-7961, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083311, 2019. URL
- Kopparla, P., Y.-J. Lee, T. Imamura, A. Yamazaki, Principal components of short-term variability in the ultraviolet albedo of Venus, A&A, 626, A30, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935388, 2019. URL
- Peralta, J., A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Horinouchi, K. McGouldrick, I. Garate-Lopez, E. F. Young, M. A. Bullock, Y.-J. Lee, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, S. S. Limaye, New cloud morphologies discovered on the Venus's night during Akatsuki, Icarus, 333, 177-182, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.05.026, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Kitahara, T., T. Imamura, T. M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, Y.-J. Lee, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Kouyama, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Ogohara, H. Kashimura, T. Horinouchi, M. Takagi, Stationary features at the cloud top of Venus observed by Ultraviolet Imager onboard Akatsuki, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, 1266-1281, doi:10.1029/2018JE005842, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Peralta, J., N. Iwagami, A. Sánchez‐Lavega, Y.-J. Lee, R. Hueso, M. Narita, T. Imamura, P. Miles, A. Wesley, E. Kardasis, S. Takagi, Morphology and Dynamics of Venus's Middle Clouds With Akatsuki/IR1, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 2399-2407, doi:10.1029/2018GL081670, 2019. URL (Open Access), Post in AGU Blogosphere
- Singh, D., Venus nightside surface temperature, Scientific Reports, 9:1137, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38117-x, 2019. URL (Open Access)
- Kashimura, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, W. Ohfuchi, T. Enomoto, K. Nakajima, M. Ishiwatari, T. M. Sato, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Satoh, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Planetary-scale streak structure reproduced in high-resolution simulations of the Venus atmosphere with a low-stability layer, Nature Communications, 10, Article number: 23, doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07919-y, 2019. URL (Open Access), Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in Japanese), Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in English), Press Release (Kobe Univ., in Japanese), Press Release (Kobe Univ., in English)
- Peralta, J., K. Muto, R. Hueso, T. Horinouchi, A. Sánchez-Lavega, S. Murakami, P. Machado, E. F. Young, Y.-J. Lee, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, K. McGouldrick, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, S. S. Limaye, T. M. Sato, K. Ogohara, M. Nakamura, D. Luz, Nightside Winds at the Lower Clouds of Venus with Akatsuki/IR2: Longitudinal, Local Time, and Decadal Variations from Comparison with Previous Measurements, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 239, 29, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Ando, H., M. Takagi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, N. Sugimoto, H. Sagawa, K. Noguchi, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, A. Yamazaki, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, R. Choudhary, K. Kumar, G. Ramkumar, M. Antonita, Local Time Dependence of the Thermal Structure in the Venusian Equatorial Upper Atmosphere: Comparison of Akatsuki Radio Occultation Measurements and GCM Results, J. Geophys. Res: Planets, 123, 2270-2280, doi:10.1029/2018JE005640, 2018. URL
- Limaye, S. S., D. Grassi, A. Mahieux, A. Migliorini, S. Tellmann, D. Titov, Venus Atmospheric Thermal Structure and Radiative Balance, Space Sci. Rev., 214:102, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0525-2, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Imamura, T., M. Miyamoto, H. Ando, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, S. Tellmann, T. Tsuda, Y. Aoyama, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, A. Yamazaki, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, Fine Vertical Structures at the Cloud Heights of Venus Revealed by Radio Holographic Analysis of Venus Express and Akatsuki Radio Occultation Data, J. Geophys. Res: Planets, 123, 2151-2161, doi:10.1029/2018JE005627, 2018. URL
- Takahashi, Y., M. Sato, M. Imai, R. Lorenz, Y. Yair, K. Aplin, G. Fischer, M. Nakamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, N. Hirata, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, Initiation of a lightning search using the lightning and airglow camera onboard the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 88, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0836-2, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Limaye, S. S., S. Watanabe, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, T. Satoh, T. M. Sato, M. Nakamura, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, T. Kouyama, Y.-J. Lee, T. Horinouchi, J. Peralta, N. Iwagami, G. L. Hashimoto, S. Takagi, S. Ohtsuki, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, N. Ishii, T. Abe, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, N. Hirata, E. F. Young, A. C. Ocampo, Venus looks different from day to night across wavelengths: morphology from Akatsuki multispectral images, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 24, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0789-5, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Yamazaki, A., M. Yamada, Y.-J. Lee, S. Watanabe, T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, T. Imamura, T. M. Sato, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, S. Takagi, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, N. Hirata, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Suzuki, C. Hirose, M. Ueno, T. Satoh, T. Abe, N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, Ultraviolet imager on Venus orbiter Akatsuki and its initial results, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 23, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0772-6, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., T. Kouyama, Y. J. Lee, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, K. Nakajima, J. Peralta, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, Mean winds at the cloud top of Venus obtained from two-wavelength UV imaging by Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 10, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0775-3, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Iwagami, N., T. Sakanoi, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Sawai, S. Ohtsuki, S. Takagi, K. Uemizu, M. Ueno, S. Kameda, S. Murakami, M. Nakamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, T. Imamura, C. Hirose, M. Suzuki, N. Hirata, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, M. Yamada, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, T. Kouyama, Initial products of Akatsuki 1-μm camera, Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 6, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0773-5, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, M. Futaguchi, S. Murakami, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Ueno, N. Iwagami, S. Takagi, M. Takagi, K. Ogohara, H. Kashimura, T. Horinouchi, N. Sato, M. Yamada, Y. Yamamoto, S. Ohtsuki, K. Sugiyama, H. Ando, M. Takamura, T. Yamada. T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Topographical and Local Time Dependence of Large Stationary Gravity Waves Observed at the Cloud Top of Venus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 12,98-12,105, doi:10.1002/2017GL075792, 2017. URL
- Imamura, T., H. Ando, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, A. Yamazaki, T. M. Sato, K. Noguchi, Y. Futaana, J. Oschlisniok, S. Limaye, R. K. Choudhary, Y. Murata, H. Takeuchi, C. Hirose, T. Ichikawa, T. Toda, A. Tomiki, T. Abe, Z. Yamamoto, H. Noda, T. Iwata, S. Murakami, T. Satoh, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, S. Takagi, Y. Yamamoto, N. Hirata, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Yamada, M. Suzuki, N. Ishii, T. Hayashiyama, Y. J. Lee, M. Nakamura, Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 137, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0722-3, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Satoh, J. Peralta, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, T. Imamura, H. Kashimura, S. S. Limaye, K. McGouldrick, M. Nakamura, T. M. Sato, K. Sugiyama, M. Takagi, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, E. F. Young, Corrigendum: Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki, Nature Geoscience, 10, 798, doi:10.1038/ngeo3034, 2017. URL
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Satoh, J. Peralta, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, T. Imamura, H. Kashimura, S. S. Limaye, K. McGouldrick, M. Nakamura, T. M. Sato, K. Sugiyama, M. Takagi, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, E. F. Young, Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki, Nature Geoscience, 10, 646-651, doi:10.1038/ngeo3016, 2017. URL, Press Release (JAXA, in Japanese), Press Release (Hokkaido Univ., in Japanese)
- Lee, Y. J., A. Yamazaki, T. Imamura, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, T. M. Sato, K. Ogohara, G. L. Hashimoto, S. Murakami, Scattering Properties of the Venusian Clouds Observed by the UV Imager on board Akatsuki, The Astronomical Journal, 154, 44 (16pp), doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa78a5, 2017. URL
- Fukuhara, T., M. Futaguchi, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, N. Iwagami, T. Kouyama, S. Murakami, M. Nakamura, K. Ogohara, M. Sato, T. M. Sato, M. Suzuki, M. Taguchi, S. Takagi, M. Ueno, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, Large stationary gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus, Nature Geoscience, 10, 85-88, doi:10.1038/ngeo2873, 2017. URL, Press Release (ISAS/JAXA, in Japanese) Press Release (Rikkyo Univ., in Japanese)
- Ando, H., D. Shiota, T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, A. Asai, H. Isobe, M. Päzold, B. Häusler, M. Nakamura, Internal structure of a coronal mass ejection revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 5318-5328, doi:10.1002/2015JA021076, 2015. URL
- Satoh, T., S. Ohtsuki, N. Iwagami, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Sakanoi, Y. Kasaba, R. Nakamura, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Fukuhara, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, Venus' clouds as inferred from the phase curves acquired by IR1 and IR2 on board Akatsuki, Icarus, 248, 213-220, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.030, 2015. URL
- Miyamoto, M., T. Imamura, M. Tokumaru, H. Ando, H. Isobe, A. Asai, D. Shiota, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, M. Nakamura, Radial distribution of compressive waves in the solar corona revealed by Akatsuki radio occultation observations, Astrophys. J., 797, 51, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/51, 2014. URL
- Imamura, T., M. Tokumaru, H. Isobe, D. Shiota, H. Ando, M. Miyamoto, T. Toda, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, A. Asai, K. Yaji, M. Yamada, M. Nakamura, Outflow structure of the quiet Sun corona probed by spacecraft radio scintillations in strong scattering, Astrophys. J., 788, 117, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/788/2/117, 2014. URL
- Taguchi, M. T. Fukuhara, M. Futaguchi, M. Sato, T. Imamura, K. Mitsuyama, M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, N. Iwagami, G. L. Hashimoto, Characteristic features in Venus' nightside cloud-top temperature obtained by Akatsuki/LIR, Icarus, 219, 502-509, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.024, 2012. URL
Results (Akatsuki's data are not used for analysis, but related to Akatsuki mission by Akatsuki team members)
- Sugimoto, N., T. Kouyama, M. Takagi, Impact of Data Assimilation on Thermal Tides in the Case of Venus Express Wind Observation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 4573-4580, doi:10.1029/2019GL082700, 2019. URL
- Nara, Y., T. Imamura, S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, M. Yamada, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, N. Sato, Formation of the Y feature at the Venusian cloud top by planetary-scale waves and the mean circulation: analysis of Venus Express VMC images, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 124, 1143-1156, doi:10.1029/2018JE005779, 2019. URL
- Lorenz, R. D., Lightning detection on Venus: a critical review, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 5:34, doi:10.1186/s40645-018-0181-x, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Taylor, F. W., H. Svedhem, J. W. Head III, Venus: The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment of an Earth-Like Planet, Space Sci. Rev., 214:35, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0467-8, 2018. URL (Open Access)
- Takagi, M., N. Sugimoto, H. Ando, Y. Matsuda, Three‐Dimensional Structures of Thermal Tides Simulated by a Venus GCM, J. Geophys. Res.:Planets, 123, 335-352, doi:10.1002/2017JE005449, 2018. URL
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- McGouldrick, K., Effects of variation in coagulation and photochemistry parameters on the particle size distributions in the Venus clouds, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 161, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0744-x, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Sánchez-Lavega, A., S. Lebonnois, T. Imamura, P. Read, D. Luz, The Atmospheric Dynamics of Venus, Space Sci. Rev., 212, 1541-1616, doi:10.1007/s11214-017-0389-x, 2017. URL
- Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, K. McGouldrick, H. Sagawa, A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Imamura, T. Widemann, M. Nakamura, Overview of useful spectral regions for Venus: An update to encourage observations complementary to the Akatsuki mission, Icarus, 288, 235-239, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.01.027, 2017. URL
- Sánchez-Lavega, A., J. Peralta, J. M. Gomez-Forrellad, R. Hueso, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Mendikoa, J. F. Rojas, T. Horinouchi, Y. J. Lee, S. Watanabe, Venus cloud morphology and motions from ground-based images at the time of the Akatsuki orbit insertion, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 833, L7, doi:10.3847/2041-8205/833/1/L7, 2016. URL
- Navarro, T., G. Schubert, S. Lebonnois, Author Correction: Atmospheric mountain wave generation on Venus and its influence on the solid planet’s rotation rate, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0257-7, 2018. URL
- Navarro, T., G. Schubert, S. Lebonnois, Atmospheric mountain wave generation on Venus and its influence on the solid planet’s rotation rate, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0157-x, 2018. URL
- Peralta, J., R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, Y. J. Lee, A. García Muñoz, T. Kouyama, H. Sagawa, T. M. Sato, G. Piccioni, S. Tellmann, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, Stationary waves and slowly moving features in the night upper clouds of Venus, Nature Astronomy 1, 0187, doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0187, 2017. URL, Press Release (JAXA), Press Release (ESA)
- Peralta, J., Y. J. Lee, R. Hueso, R. T. Clancy, B. J. Sandor, A. Sánchez-Lavega, E. Lellouch, M. Rengel, P. Machado, M. Omino, A. Piccialli, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, D. Luz, D. Peach, Venus's winds and temperatures during the MESSENGER's flyby: An approximation to a three-dimensional instantaneous state of the atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 3907-3915, doi:10.1002/2017GL072900, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Sugimoto, N., A. Yamazaki, T. Kouyama, H. Kashimura, T. Enomoto, M. Takagi, Development of an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation system for the Venusian atmosphere, Scientific Reports, 7, 9321, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09461-1, 2017. URL
- Ando, H., T. Imamura, N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, S. Tellmann, M. Pätzold, B. Häusler, Y. Matsuda, Vertical structure of the axi‐asymmetric temperature disturbance in the Venusian polar atmosphere: Comparison between radio occultation measurements and GCM results, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 1687-1703, doi:10.1002/2016JE005213, 2017. URL
- Peralta, J., M. A. López-Valverde, G. Gilli, A. Piccialli, Dayside temperatures in the Venus upper atmosphere from Venus Express/VIRTIS nadir measurements at 4.3 μm, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 585, A53, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527191, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Ando, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, H. Kashimura, T. Imamura, Y. Matsuda, The puzzling Venusian polar atmospheric structure reproduced by a general circulation model, Nature Communications, 7, 10398. doi:10.1038/ncomms10398, 2016. URL
- Kouyama, T., A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, T. Imamura, A method to estimate optical distortion using planetary images, Planet. Space Sci., 86, 86-90, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2013.06.027, 2013. URL
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, Y. Futaana, Long-term variation in the cloud-tracked zonal velocities at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Venus Express VMC images, J. Geophys. Res. Planets 118, 37-46, doi:10.1029/2011JE004013, 2013. URL
- Kouyama, T., T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, T. Satoh, Y. Futaana, Horizontal structure of planetary-scale waves at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Galileo SSI images with an improved cloud-tracking technique, Planet. Space Sci., 60, 207-216, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2011.08.008, 2012. URL
Data Pipeline
- Ogohara, K., M. Takagi, S. Murakami, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamada, T. Kouyama, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Imamura, Y. Yamamoto, H. Kashimura, N. Hirata, N. Sato, A. Yamazaki, T. Satoh, N. Iwagami, M. Taguchi, S. Watanabe, T. M. Sato, S. Ohtsuki, T. Fukuhara, M. Futaguchi, T. Sakanoi, S. Kameda, K. Sugiyama, H. Ando, Y. J. Lee, M. Nakamura, M. Suzuki, C. Hirose, N. Ishii, T. Abe, Overview of Akatsuki data products: definition of data levels, method and accuracy of geometric correction, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 167, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0749-5, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Kouyama, K. Ogohara, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, Image velocimetry for clouds with relaxation labeling based on deformation consistency, Meas. Sci. Technol., 28, 085301, doi:10.1088/1361-6501/aa695c, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Ikegawa, S., T. Horinouchi, Improved automatic estimation of winds at the cloud top of Venus using superposition of cross-correlation surfaces, Icarus, 271, 98-119, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.018, 2016. URL
- Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, Automated cloud tracking system for the Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter data, Icarus, 217, 661-668, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.017, 2012. URL
- Ogohara, K., T. Kouyama, H. Yamamoto, N. Sato, M. Takagi, T. Imamura, A newly developed cloud tracking system for the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki and preliminary results using Venus Express data, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Japan, 60, 193-202, doi:10.11345/nctam.60.193, 2012. URL
Science Instruments
- Satoh, T., T. M. Sato, M. Nakamura, Y. Kasaba, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Horinouchi, T. Imamura, A. Yamazaki, T. Enomoto, Y. Sakurai, K. Takami, K. Sawai, T. Nakakushi, T. Abe, N. Ishii, C. Hirose, N. Hirata, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, T. Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, Performance of Akatsuki/IR2 in Venus orbit: the first year, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 154, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0736-x, 2017 URL (Open Access)
- Fukuhara, T, M. Taguchi, T. Imamura, A. Hayashitani, T. Yamada, M. Futaguchi, T. Kouyama, T. M. Sato, M. Takamura, N. Iwagami, M. Nakamura, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Sato, S. Takagi, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, C. Hirose, N. Hirata, Absolute calibration of brightness temperature of the Venus disk observed by the Longwave Infrared Camera onboard Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 69:141, doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0727-y, 2017. URL (Open Access)
- Satoh, T. M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, M. Suzuki, T. Imamura, Y. Kasaba, S. Yoshida, M. Kimata, Development and in-flight calibration of IR2: 2-μm camera onboard Japan's Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:74, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0451-z, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Fukuhara, T., M. Taguchi, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, N. Iwagami, M. Sato, K. Mitsuyama, G. L. Hashimoto, R. Ohshima, T. Kouyama, H. Ando, M. Futaguchi, LIR: Longwave Infrared Camera onboard the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.06.019, 1009-1018, 2011. URL
- Iwagami, N., S. Takagi, S. Ohtsuki, M. Ueno, K. Uemizu, T. Satoh, T. Sakanoi, G. L. Hashimoto, Science requirements and description of the 1 μm camera onboard the Akatsuki Venus Orbiter, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 487-492, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.03.007, 2011. URL
- Takagi, S., N. Iwagami, Contrast sources for the infrared images taken by the Venus mission AKATSUKI, Earth, Planets and Space, 63, 435-442, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.01.007, 2011. URL
- Imamura, T., T. Toda, A. Tomiki, D. Hirahara, T. Hayashiyama, N. Mochizuki, Z. Yamamoto, T. Abe, T. Iwata, H. Noda, Y. Futaana, H. Ando, B. Häusler, M. Pätzold, A. Nabatov, Radio occultation experiment of the Venus atmosphere and ionosphere with the Venus orbiter Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 493-501, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.03.009, 2011. URL (Open Access)
- Takahashi, Y., J. Yoshida, Y. Yair, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, Lightning detection by LAC onboard the Japanese Venus climate orbiter, Planet-C, Space Sci. Rev., 137, 317-334, doi:10.1007/s11214-008-9400-x., 2008. URL
- Taguchi, M., T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, M. Nakamura, N. Iwagami, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, K. Mitsuyama, Longwave infrared camera onboard the Venus Climate Orbiter, Adv. Space Res., 40, 861-868, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.085, 2007. URL
Related to trajectory and orbits
- Campagnola, S., Y. Kawakatsu, Design of the Recovery Trajectory for JAXA Venus Orbiter Akatsuki, J. Astronaut. Sci., 62, 298-314, doi:10.1007/s40295-015-0074-9, 2015. URL
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada The Trajectory Control Strategies of Akatsuki for Venus Orbit Reinsertion, AAS13-388, Volume 148 of the Advances in the Astronautical Sciences Series, AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting Feb. 10-14, 2013, Kauai, HI.
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, H. Terada, The trajectory control strategies of Akatsuki for Venus orbit reinsertion, in: advances in the Astronautical Sciences, 148, 2909-2918, 2013.
- Hirose, C, N. Ishii, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada, The trajectory control strategies for Akatsuki re-insertion into the Venus orbit, In: Proceedings of the 23rd international symposium on space flight dynamics, 2012
- Kawakatsu, Y., S. Campagnola, C. Hirose, N. Ishii, An orbit plan toward Akatsuki Venus reencounter and orbit injection, Adv. Astronaut. Sci., 143(II), 1535-1547, 2012. Also paper AAS 12-205
- Hirose, C., N. Ishii, T. Yamamoto, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Ukai, H. Terada, M. Ebara, The Trajectory Design Strategies for Akatsuki Mission, Trans. JSASS Aerospace Tech. Japan, Vol. 10, No. ists28, pp. To_3_1-To_3_5, doi:10.2322/tastj.10.To_3_1, 2012. URL
Operations for each system
- Toyota, H., N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, H. Ooto, K. Koide, T. Sakamoto, H. Abe, H. Yoshino, H. Takamura, T. Ose, Y. Nozaki, On-Orbit Operations Of A Power System For Japan's Venus Explorer Akatsuki, 11th European Space Power Conference, 3-7 October 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Technologies used in PLANET-C
- Toda T., T. Hayashiyama, Y. Kamata, N. Ishii, M. Nakamura, Flight model development of PLANET-C telecommunication subsystem. The 27th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, Transactions of Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, Space Technology Japan 8, No.ists27:Tj_17-Tj_22, 2010.
- Oto, H., K. Ohira, M. Yamamoto, T. Eguro, H. Toyota, M. Uno, K. Hirose, M. Tajima, Development of Lithium-Ion Battery for the Venus Climate Orbiter "PLANET-C", Proceedings of the 8th European Space Power Conference, held on 14-19 September 2008 at Constance in Germany. Edited by H. Lacoste and L. Ouwehand. ESA-SP Vol. 661. ISBN: 978-92-9221-225-4, 2008, id.103
- Toyota, H., T. Shimada, K. Higuchi, M. Uno, K. Hirose, M. Tajima, N. Ishii, M. Imaizumi, Y. Nozaki, N, Kaneko, M. Konno, Venus Climate Orbiter PLANET-C Solar Array Development, Proceedings of the 8th European Space Power Conference, held on 14-19 September 2008 at Constance in Germany. Edited by H. Lacoste and L. Ouwehand. ESA-SP Vol. 661. ISBN: 978-92-9221-225-4, 2008, id.36
- Takada, J., S. Senda, H. Hihara, M. Hamai, T. Oshima, S. Hagino, M. Suzuki, S. Ichikawa, A fast progressive lossless image compression method for space and satellite images, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2007, IEEE International, 479-481, doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4422835, 2007. URL
Project Overview
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, M. Imai, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, Y.-Y. Hayashi, H. Kashimura, K. Sugiyama, T. Sakanoi, H. Ando, S. Murakami, T. M. Sato, S. Takagi, K. Nakajima, J. Peralta, Y. J. Lee, J. Nakatsuka, T. Ichikawa, K. Inoue, T. Toda, H. Toyota, S. Tachikawa, S. Narita, T. Hayashiyama, A. Hasegawa, Y. Kamata, AKATSUKI returns to Venus, Earth, Planets and Space, 68:75, doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0457-6, 2016. URL (Open Access)
- Nakamura, M., Y. Kawakatsu, C. Hirose, T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, K. Ogohara, K. Uemizu, T. Fukuhara, S. Ohtsuki, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, J. Nakatsuka, N. Iwagami, M. Taguchi, S. Watanabe, Y. Takahashi, G. L. Hashimoto, H. Yamamoto, Return to Venus of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter AKATSUKI, Acta Astronautica, 93, 384-389, doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.07.027, 2014. URL, preprint (arXiv:1709.09353)
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, N. Ishii, T. Abe, T. Satoh, M. Suzuki, M. Ueno, A. Yamazaki, N. Iwagami, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, Y. Takahashi, M. Yamada, N. Hoshino, S. Ohtsuki, K. Uemizu, G. L. Hashimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, K. Ogohara, N. Sato, Y. Kasaba, T. Kouyama, N. Hirata, R. Nakamura, Y. Yamamoto, N. Okada, T. Horinouchi, M. Yamamoto, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Overview of Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, Earth Planets Space, 63, 443-457, doi:10.5047/eps.2011.02.009, 2011. URL (Open Access)
- Nakamura, M., T. Imamura, M. Ueno, N. Iwagami, T. Satoh, S. Watanabe, M. Taguchi, Y. Takahashi, M. Suzuki, T. Abe, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Sakanoi, S. Okano, Y. Kasaba, J. Yoshida, M. Yamada, N. Ishii, T. Yamada, K.-I. Oyama, Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan, Planet. Space Sci., 55, 1831-1842, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009, 2007. URL
- Ishii, N., H. Yamakawa, S. Sawai, M. Shida, T. Hashimoto, M. Nakamura, T. Imamura, T. Abe, K.-I. Oyama, I. Nakatani, Current status of the PLANET-C Venus orbiter design, Adv. Space Res., 34, 1668-1672, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2004.07.006, 2004. URL
- Oyama, K.-I., T. Imamura, T. Abe, Feasibility study for Venus atmosphere mission, Adv. Space Res., 29, 265-271, doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(01)00577-4, 2002. URL
Others
- Nakamura, M., D. Titov, K. McGouldrick, P. Drossart, J.-L. Bertaux, H. Liu, Special issue "Akatsuki at Venus: The First Year of Scientific Operation", Earth, Planets and Space, 70, 144, doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0916-3, 2018. URL (Open Access, not peer-reviewed)
- Glaze, L. S., C. F. Wilson, L. V. Zasova, M. Nakamura, S. Limaye, Future of Venus Research and Exploration, Space Sci. Rev., 214:89, doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0528-z, 2018. URL (Open Access)