Taro Kotani

Optically Thick Outflows of Supercritical Accretion Discs: Radiative Diffusion Approach (2008)

Abolmasov, P., Karpov, S., Kotani, Taro

Highly supercritical accretion discs are probable sources of dense optically thick axisymmetric winds. We introduce a new approach based on diffusion approximation radiative transfer in a funnel...

Optical Spectroscopy of the ULX-Associated Nebula MF16 (2008)

Abolmasov, Pavel, Fabrika, S., Sholukhova, O., Kotani, Taro

We present the results of optical panoramic and long-slit spectroscopy of the nebula MF16 associated with the Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC6946 ULX-1. More than 20 new emission lines are identified...

Low/Hard State Spectra of GRO J1655-40 Observed with Suzaku (2007)

Takahashi, Hiromitsu, Fukazawa, Yasushi, Mizuno, Tsunefumi, Hirasawa, Ayumi, Kitamoto, Shunji, Sudoh, Keisuke, ...

The Galactic black-hole binary GRO J1655$-$40 was observed with Suzaku on 2005 September 22--23, for a net exposure of 35 ks with the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) and 20 ks with the Hard X-ray...

Suzaku discovery of iron absorption lines in outburst spectra of the X-ray transient 4U 1630-472 (2006)

Kubota, Aya, Dotani, Tadayasu, Cottam, Jean, Kotani, Taro, Done, Chris, Ueda, Yoshihiro, ...

We present the results of six Suzaku observations of the recurrent black hole transient 4U1630-472 during its decline from outburst from February 8 to March 23 in 2006. All observations show the...

Evidence for Jet Collimation in SS 433 with the Chandra HETGS (2003)

Namiki, Masaaki, Kawai, Nobuyuki, Kotani, Taro, Makishima, Kazuo

High-resolution X-ray spectra of SS 433 obtained after a binary egress with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) were studied. Many Doppler-shifted X-ray emission lines...

SS 433: Radio/X-ray anti-correlation and fast-time variability (2002)

Safi-Harb, Samar, Kotani, Taro

We briefly review the Galactic microquasar SS 433/W50 and present a new RXTE spectral and timing study. We show that the X-ray flux decreases during radio flares, a behavior seen in other...

Erratum: ASCA Observations of the Absorption-Line Features from the Super-Luminal Jet Source GRS 1915+105 (2000)

Kotani, Taro, Ebisawa, Ken, Dotani, Tadayasu, Inoue, Hajime, Nagase, Fumiaki, Tanaka, Yasuo, ...

We have discovered errors in the calculation of some of the Einstein coefficients in Table 5 and some plots in Figure 3. Due to the errors, the square-root section of the curves of growth of Fe xxvi...

ASCA and Ginga Observations of GX 1+4 (1998)

Kotani, Taro, Dotani, Tadayasu, Nagase, Fumiaki, Greenhill, John G., Pravdo, Steven H., Angelini, Lorella

The X-ray binary pulsar GX 1+4 was observed with Ginga every year from 1987 to 1991, and with ASCA in 1994. During the Ginga observations, GX 1+4 was in the steady spindown phase, while the X-ray...