Venus Climate ORBITER AKATSUKI あかつき

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Publication List

Project Overview

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 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)

Science Instruments

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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., 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)

Technologies used in PLANET-C

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

Related to trajectory and orbits

  • 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
  • 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, 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
  • 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 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.
  • Campagnola, S., Y. Kawakatsu, Design of the Recovery Trajectory for JAXA Venus Orbiter Akatsuki, J. Astronaut. Sci., 62, 298-???, doi:10.1007/s40295-015-0074-9, 2015. 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.

Data Pipeline

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)

Results

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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., 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

Results (not directly related to Akatsuki)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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

Others

  • 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)
  • 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)
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