Dr. Kei Sano Profile

Dr. Kei Sano

at Kyushu Institute of Technology

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Pre-flight optical test and calibration for the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment 2 (CIBER-2)

Priyadarshini Bangale, James Bock, Asantha Cooray, Kenta Danbayashi, Richard Feder, Masaki Furutani, Kevin Gates, Ryo Hashimoto, Viktor Hristov, Arisa Kida, Phillip Korngut, Alicia Lanz, Dae-Hee Lee, Lunjun Liu, Peter Mason, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, Jodi-Ann Morgan, Chi Nguyen, Won-Kee Park, Dorin Patru, James Parkus, Shohta Sakai, Kei Sano, Hiroko Suzuki, Aoi Takahashi, Sohta Tatsu, Kohji Tsumura, Takehiko Wada, Shiang-Yu Wang, Yasuhiro Yamada, Michael Zemcov, Kohji Takimoto, Seung-Cheol Bang

Proceedings Volume 11443, 114435A (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561917

KEYWORDS: Electron beam lithography, Rockets, Stars, Calibration, Optical testing, Infrared radiation, Galactic astronomy, Optical calibration, Infrared backgrounds, Atmospheric optics

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Development of an optical and near-infrared telescope onboard the HiZ-GUNDAM mission

Kohji Tsumura, Daisuke Yonetoku, Koji Kawabata, Shuji Matsuura, Hirofumi Noda, Kei Sano, Akisato Ohashi, Yuji Urata, Yuu Niino, Akihiro Doi, Hiroshi Akitaya, Akihiro Miyasaka, Miku Kurimata, Yoshikatsu Kawata, Makoto Arimoto, Hirofumi Okita

Proceedings Volume 11443, 114430R (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560654

KEYWORDS: Infrared detectors, Telescopes, Mirrors, Astronomy, Satellites, X-rays, Gamma radiation, Infrared telescopes, Optical instrument design, X-ray telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Development of EXo-Zodiacal Infrared Telescope (EXZIT) for observation of visible and near-infrared extragalactic background light

Kei Sano, Kohji Tsumura, Aoi Takahashi, Ryo Hashimoto, Sota Ogura, Kazuma Yomo, Hikoma Yasutake, Yuta Ino, Reina Tanaka, Shuji Matsuura

Proceedings Volume 11443, 114436B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2559169

KEYWORDS: Thermography, Electron beam lithography, Mirrors, Stars, Aerospace engineering, Visualization, Sensors, Geometrical optics, Space operations, Infrared telescopes

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Extragalactic background light (EBL) consists of entire radiation emitted throughout the cosmic history and is one crucial observable quantity to study astrophysics in the early universe, such as first stellar objects or primordial black holes. In the visible and near-infrared, zodiacal light (ZL), sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust, is the brightest foreground for observer in the near-earth orbit and its uncertainty limits accuracy of the EBL measurement. To overcome this problem, observations from heliocentric distance beyond 5 au, where the ZL is negligible, is promising. To achieve the EBL observation in deep space, we have been developing EXo- Zodiacal Infrared Telescope (EXZIT) onboard a solar sail spacecraft to Jovian Trojans planned in Japan around 2030. According to our mission study, a three-mirror reflective telescope optics design with a 90mm × 50mm effective aperture and 16 deg × 8 deg field of view (FoV) followed by a focal plane array HAWAII-2RG with a linear variable filter makes available to detect the EBL at high significance in 0.4–1.6 μm with specific wavelength resolution of ∼ 20 . In the present study, we develop test optics to demonstrate optical performance in room temperature for the future observation. By adopting only mirrors of aspherical surface, we design the optics whose aberration is minimized to show point spread function (PSF) of approximately 3 pix × 3 pix on the focal plane. The mirrors are fabricated by machining aluminum alloy A6061 with a honeycomb processing on the back surface to reduce the mirror mass. After integrating and aligning the mirrors with support jigs, we measure the PSF on the focal plane by a visible camera by inserting collimated beam of different angle of incidence, covering the whole FoV. We evaluate the PSF size by analyzing encircled energy in comparison with that expected from the ray-trace simulation of the optics. Throughout the FoV of the optics, the measured PSF size is comparable to the simulation. The present study demonstrates the precision machining of the aspherical mirrors and the optical performance of the designed optics. As a next step, we plan to develop thermal structure of EXZIT to demonstrate the optical performance in low temperature.

Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

High-redshift gamma-ray burst for unraveling the Dark Ages Mission: HiZ-GUNDAM

Daisuke Yonetoku, Takeru Fujii, Tatehiro Mihara, Akihiro Doi, Takanori Sakamoto, Kohji Tsumura, Kunihito Ioka, Yusuke Amaya, Makoto Arimoto, Teruaki Enoto, Hatsune Goto, Shuichi Gunji, Junko Hiraga, Hirokazu Ikeda, Nobuyuki Kawai, Shunsuke Kurosawa, Jin Li, Yoshitomo Maeda, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Toshio Murakami, Yujin Nakagawa, Naoki Ogino, Masanori Ohno, Tatsuya Sawano, Kensyo Sei, Motoko Serino, Satoshi Sugita, Toru Tamagawa, Keisuke Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Toru Tanimori, Makoto Tashiro, Hiroshi Tomida, Hyeongsoon Wang, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Ayumi Yamamoto, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Makoto Yamauchi, Yoichi Yatsu, Atsumasa Yoshida, Daito Yuhi, Hiroshi Akitaya, Akihiko Fukui, Yoshifusa Ita, Hidehiro Kaneda, Koji Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Kawata, Miku Kurimata, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, Akihiro Miyasaka, Kentaro Motohara, Norio Narita, Hirofumi Noda, Akisato Ohashi, Hirofumi Okita, Kei Sano, Masaomi Tanaka, Yuji Urata, Takehiko Wada, Hikaru Yamaguchi, Kenshi Yanagisawa, Michitoshi Yoshida, Katsuaki Asano, Kohei Inayoshi, Susumu Inoue, Hirotaka Ito, Hideyuki Izumiura, Norita Kawanaka, Tomoya Kinugawa, Shota Kisaka, Kenta Kiuchi, Jin Matsumoto, Akira Mizuta, Kohta Murase, Hiroki Nagakura, Shigehiro Nagataki, Yoshikazu Nakada, Takashi Nakamura, Yuu Niino, Yudai Suwa, Keitaro Takahashi, Takahiro Tanaka, Kenji Toma, Tomonori Totani, Ryo Yamazaki, Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Proceedings Volume 11444, 114442Z (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2560603

KEYWORDS: Observatories, Astronomy, X-ray optics, Satellites, X-rays, Gamma radiation, Satellite communications, X-ray imaging, X-ray telescopes, X-ray detectors

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