Teacher Profiles
MURAKAMI, Hiroshi Professor
| Specialty | x-ray astronomy |
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| Subjects Taught | Natural science, numerical analysis (3rd year), information science workshop (3rd year), comprehensive research (4th year) |
| Website | Hiroshi Murakami |
■Research Themes
- Activity of the black hole at the center of the galaxy
- Development of X-ray CCD detectors
■Information science seminar (3rd year)
In the Information Science Exercises, you will learn simple data processing techniques using space science as a theme.
Using the folding process to determine the rotation period of pulsars, which are rapidly rotating stars, as a case study, we will actually perform the process using our own software with the help of a library. Furthermore, we will build the completed data processing software into a web application and make it easy to use with a user-friendly interface.
■ Comprehensive Research (4th year students)
In our comprehensive research program, we will focus on themes related to space.
- Satellite data analysis
- Development of educational and public relations tools
- Digital circuit programming
We find themes from fields such as these and proceed with our research. So far, we have been working on projects such as a "planetarium using a projector" that makes even faint stars visible by magnification, a "limiting magnitude evaluation system" that determines the constellations in photographs of stars and finds out what magnitude of stars are visible, and a "directional search type constellation information display system" that determines the constellation in the direction pointed to by a pointer and displays related information.