K. Okumura

Publication List Details

Period

1981 - 2008

Number

195

Co-Authors

Simulations of Galactic Cosmic Ray Impacts on the Herschel/PACS bolometer Arrays with Geant4 Code (2008)

Bongardo, C., Andreani, P. M., Okumura, K., Horeau, B., Claret, A., De Zotti, G., ...

The effects of the in-flight behaviour of the bolometer arrays of the Herschel/PACS instrument under impacts of Galactic cosmic rays are explored. This instrument is part of the ESA-Herschel payload,...

Observation of the anisotropy of 10 TeV primary cosmic ray nuclei flux with the Super-Kamiokande-I detector (2007)

Guillian, G., Hosaka, J., Ishihara, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Minamino, A., ...

The relative sidereal variation in the arrival direction of primary cosmic ray nuclei of median energy 10 TeV was measured using downward, through-going muons detected with the Super-Kamiokande-I...

Neutralino Dark Matter in Mirage Mediation (2006)

Choi, K., Kim, Y. G., Lee, K. Y., Okumura, K., Shimizu, Y.

We study the phenomenology of neutralino dark matter (DM) in mirage mediation scenario of supersymmetry breaking which results from the moduli stabilization in some string/brane models. Depending...

Deuteron and Anti-deuteron Production in $e^+ e^-$ Collisions at the Z Resonance (2006)

Schael, S, Aubert, B, Zalipska, J, Yoshida, M, Yoo, J, Yokoyama, M, ...

Deuteron and anti-deuteron production in Z decays has been observed in the ALEPH experiment at LEP. The production rate of anti-deuterons is measured to be 5.9+-1.8+-0.5 10^-6 per hadronic Z decay in...

The ISOCAM field-of-view distortion correction (2004)

Ali, B., Ott, S., Vo, T. D., Gastaud, R., Okumura, K.

We describe results from new re-analysis of the ISOCAM field-of-view distortion. In this contribution we describe the procedure for determining the distortion, the implentation and resulting effects...

An ISOCAM survey through gravitationally lensing galaxy clusters. II. The properties of infrared galaxies in the A2218 field (2004)

Biviano, A., Metcalfe, L., McBreen, B., Altieri, B., Coia, D., Kessler, M. F., ...

We observed the cluster Abell 2218 (z=0.175), with ISOCAM on board the Infrared Space Observatory, using two filters with reference wavelengths of 6.7 and 14.3 microns. We detected 67 extragalactic...

Status of CANGAROO-III (2004)

Asahara, A., Bicknell, G. V., Clay, Roger William, Doi, Y., Edwards, P. G., Enomoto, R., ...

The CANGAROO-III project started stereoscopic observations of sub-TeV gamma-rays from Dec., 2002, nearWoomera, South Australia. Here, we report on the present status of the project. Details of...

An ISOCAM survey through gravitationally lensing galaxy clusters (2003)

Metcalfe, L., McBreen, B., Altieri, B., Biviano, A., Delaney, M., ...

ISOCAM was used to perform a deep survey through three gravitationally lensing clusters of galaxies. Nearly seventy sq. arcmin were covered over the clusters A370, A2218 and A2390. We present maps...

Evidence of TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 (2003)

Itoh, C., Enomoto, R., Yanagita, S., Yoshida, T., Tanimori, T., Okumura, K., ...

TeV gamma-rays were recently detected from the nearby normal spiral galaxy NGC 253 (Itoh et al., 2002). Observations to detect the Cherenkov light images initiated by gamma-rays from the direction of...

Water spring: a model for bouncing drops (2003)

Okumura, K., Chevy, F., Richard, Denis, Quéré, David, Clanet, Christophe

It has been shown that a water drop can bounce persistently, when thrown on a super-hydrophobic substrate. We present here scaling arguments which allow us to predict the maximal deformation and the...

Evidence of TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 (2003)

Itoh, C., Enomoto, R., Yanagita, S., Yoshida, T., Tanimori, T., Okumura, K., ...

Copyright © 2003. The European Southern Observatory. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2003 by Ryoji Enomoto. Post-print...

Evidence of TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 (2003)

Itoh, C., Enomoto, R., Yanagita, S., Yoshida, T., Tanimori, T., Okumura, K., ...

Copyright © 2003. The European Southern Observatory. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2003 by Ryoji Enomoto. Post-print...

Water spring: a model for bouncing drops (2002)

Okumura, K., Chevy, F., Clanet, C., Richard, D., Quere, D.

It has been shown that a water drop can bounce persistently, when thrown on a super-hydrophobic substrate. We present here scaling arguments which allow us to predict the maximal deformation and the...

Development of an atmospheric Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment (2002)

Kabuki, S., Tsuchiya, K., Okumura, K., Enomoto, R., Uchida, T., Tsunoo, H., ...

A Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment has been developed for observations of gamma-ray induced air-showers at energies from 10$^{11}$ to 10$^{14}$ eV. The camera consists of 427...

Observation of gamma-rays greater than 10 TeV from (2002)

K. Okumura, A. Asahara, G. V. Bicknell, P. G. Edwards, R. Enomoto, S. Gunji, ...

We have observed Markarian 421 in January and March 2001 with the CANGAROO-II imaging Cherenkov telescope during an extraordinarily high state at TeV energies. From 14 hours observations at very...

Observation of gamma-rays greater than 10 TeV from Markarian 421 (2002)

Okumura, K., Asahara, A., Bicknell, G. V., Edwards, P. G., Enomoto, R., Gunji, S., ...

We have observed Markarian 421 in January and March 2001 with the CANGAROO-II imaging Cherenkov telescope during an extraordinarily high state at TeV energies. From 14 hours observations at very...

ICRR-Report-493-2002-11 (2002)

K. Tsuchiya, K. Okumura, R. Enomoto, T. Uchida, H. Tsunoo, Sei Hayashi, ...

A Cherenkov imaging camera for the CANGAROO-III experiment has been developed for observations of gamma-ray induced air-showers at energies from 10 to 10 eV. The camera consists of 427 pixels,...

Proceedings of ICRC 2001: 1--4 c (2001)

Copernicus Gesellschaft, K. Okumura, R. Enomoto, A. Asahara, G. V. Bicknell, P. G. Edwards, ...

A preliminary result from Markarian 421 observations in the energy region above 10 TeV with the CANGAROOII 10 m telescope is presented. In January 2001, the HEGRA group reported that Markarian 421...

Design Study of CANGAROO-III, Stereoscopic Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for sub-TeV Gamma-ray Detection (2001)

R. Enomoto, S. Hara, A. Asahara, G. V. Bicknell, P. G. Edwards, S. Gunji, ...

CANGAROO-III is an Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array of four 10 m telescopes for very high energy (sub-TeV) gamma-ray astronomy. A design study of Preprint submitted to Elsevier...

Search for gamma-rays above 10 TeV from Markarian 421 in a high state with the CANGAROO-II telescope (2001)

Okumura, K., Enomoto, R., Asahara, A., Bicknell, G. V., Edwards, P. G., Gunji, S., ...

A preliminary result from Markarian 421 observations in the energy region above 10 TeV with the CANGAROO-II 10 m telescope is presented. In January 2001, the HEGRA group reported that Markarian 421...

The CANGAROO-III Project: Status report (2001)

Mori, M., Asahara, A., Bicknell, G. V., Clay, R. W., Edwards, P. G., Enomoto, R., ...

We report on the status of the construction of an array of four 10 m atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for gamma-ray astronomy, near Woomera, in South Australia -- the CANGAROO-III project. The first...

Unidentified Infrared Emission Bands in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium (2000)

Chan, Kin-Wing, Roellig, T. L., Onaka, T., Mizutani, M., Okumura, K., Yamamura, I., ...

Using the Mid-Infrared Spectrometer on board the Infrared Telescope in Space and the low-resolution grating spectrometer (PHT-S) on board the Infrared Space Observatory, we obtained 820 mid-infrared...

An ISOCAM Mid-IR Survey through Gravitationally Lensing Galaxy Clusters (1999)

Biviano, A., Metcalfe, L., Altieri, B., Leech, K., Schulz, B., Kessler, M. F., ...

We present imaging results and source counts from a deep ISOCAM cosmological survey at 15 microns, through gravitationally lensing galaxy clusters. We take advantage of the cluster gravitational...

The ISOCAM/LW Detector Dark Current Behaviour (1999)

Biviano, A., Sauvage, M., Gallais, P., Boulade, O., Roman, P., Guest, S., ...

We describe the calibration, measurements and data reduction, of the dark current of the ISOCAM/LW detector. We point-out the existence of two significant drifts of the LW dark-current, one...

Evolution And Mass Loss Of Agb Stars (1999)

N. R. Trams, M. R. Cioni, K. Okumura, C. Loup

We used ISOCAM and ISOPHT to observe the spectral energy distribution (SED) between 3.6 and 60 m of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) detected by IRAS. PHT-S and...

Astronomy And Astrophysics (1999)

B. Altieri, L. Metcalfe, J. P. Kneib, B. Mcbreen, H. Aussel, A. Biviano, ...

. We present results of ultra-deep ISOCAM observations through a cluster-lens at 7¯m and 15¯m with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) satellite. These observations reveal a large number of...