About
OIST/STG Space Physics Team consists of three funded projects:
1. Mars camera project (SX-CRANE-Mars)
2. Aurora data assimilation SMRAI project (KAKENHI-KIBAN-A)
3. ISS space weather project (KAKENHI-KIBAN-S Co-I)
Team Members
Ryuho Kataoka (PI)
Yuka Ozaki (RUA)
Nilam Bhosale, SMRAI Project PD (Google Scholar)
Tetsuya Nomura (Mars Camera Project Advisor)
Project 1: Mars Camera Project
June, 2026: Project officailly started
Project 2: SMRAI Project
NEWS
Project 3: ISS-SW Project
September, 2026: Visiting student Yanagisawa-san's paper was published:
Yanagihara, K., Kataoka, R., Seki, K. et al. (2026), Estimation of auroral emission altitude in the region of the ISS magnetic footprint during a relativistic electron precipitation event observed by ISS-CALET, Earth, Planets and Space, 78, 205, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-026-02507-7
July, 2026: Visiting student Kurihara-san's paper was published:
Kurihara, M. et al. (2026), Ultra-Low-L Sub-MeV Electron Microbursts During the May 2024 Super Storm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 53, e2026GL123119. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GL123119
Visiting Students
Kyutaro Yanagisawa (M2, Tokyo Univ) has been visiting OIST 3 times in 2025 to study aurora.
Yukino Sato (M1, SOKENDAI), field trip for a camera installation in Alaska, Sep. 17-23, 2025
Space Physics Lecture, 110 min talks x 7, Tokyo University, Sep. 29-Oct 1, 2025
Miki Kurihara (D3, Tokyo Univ), OIST visit for ISS-CALET data analysis, Jan.30-Feb.29, 2026
Yukino Sato (M2, SOKENDAI), airglow experiment at OIST, June 17-19, 2026
U-Tokyo students, airglow experiment at OIST, October 6-7, 2026