ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORYOF JAPAN (Volume 4) Fiscal 2001

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   I: Scientific Highlights (2001 Apr. | 2002 Mar.)

       1.Development of the Solar-B Spacecraft = TSUNETA et al. p.3
       2.Development of Solar-B Solar Optical Telescope = SUEMATSU et al. p.5
       3.Development of Image Stabilization System for Solar Optical Telescope onboard Solar-B satellite  = NAGATA et al. p.8
       4.Completion of VERA Ishigakijima Station = MIYAJI et al. p.10
       5.Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector TAMA300: 1,000 hours Observation and Recycling Experiment = FUJIMOTO et al. p.11
       6.Eleven-Year Solar Cycle Periodicity in Sky Brightness Observed at Mt. Norikura = SAKURAI p.12
       7.Near Infrared Adaptive Optics Spectroscopy of Binary Brown Dwarf = GOTO et al. p.13
       8.Galaxy Number Counts in the Hubble Deep Field as a Strong Constraint on a Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Model = NAGASHIMA et al. p.15
       9.Photoionization effect of the UV background on the colour-magnitude relation of elliptical galaxies = NAGASHIMA p.16
      10.A Solution to the Missing Link in the Press-Schechter Formalism = NAGASHIMA p.17
      11.Spectropolarimetric Evidence of Asymmetric Outburst in the Fast Nova V1494 Aquilae = KAWABATA p.18
      12.High-speed Hα camera for solar fl are observations = HANAOKA et al. p.19
      13.A Large-Scale CO Mapping of the Central Region of W51 = OKUMURA et al. p.20
      14.Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Compact HII Region W51 IRS 2 = OKUMURA et al. p.21
      15.Acceptance and adaptation of octants and sextants in Japan during the 18th and 19th centuries = NAKAMURA p.22
      16.Dense Plasma Torus around the Nucleus of NGC 1052 = KAMENO et al. p.23
      17.Near-IR study of M16 (SIRIUS fi rst light observations) = SUGITANI et al. p.24
      18.2 Millimeter dust around NGC 7538-IRS 1, 2, and 3. I. Unfilled structure of dust = AKABANE et al. p.25
      19.Buried AGNs in LINER type ultraluminous infrared galaxies = IMANISHI et al. p.26
      20.A list of all integrable two-dimensional homogeneous polynomial potentials with a polynomial integral of order at most four in the momenta = NAKAGAWA et al. p.27
      21.Submillimeter Imaging Polarimetry of the NGC 7538 Region = MOMOSE et al. p.28
      22.The Spin Temperature of NH3 in Comet C/1999S4 (LINEAR) = KAWAKITA et al. p.29
      23.Wide-Field TV Observation of the Leonid Meteor Storm in 2001: Main Peak over Japan = WATANABE et al. p.30
      24.Optical Follow-up of the GRB 010222 Afterglow by Subaru Telescope = WATANABE et al. p.31
      25.Development of a new GPS device for precise timing measurements = SOMA  et al. p.32
      26.High-beta Disruption in the Solar Atmosphere = SHIBASAKI  p.33
      27.Sunspot Magnetic Fields Observed with a Large-Format Infrared Array = SAKURAI et al. p.34
      28.Flexible Prism Used as an Image Stabilizer = SAKURAI et al. p.35
      29.Interpolation of One- and Two-Dimensional Images with Pixelwise Photon Number Conservation = SAKURAI et al. p.36
      30.Chromospheric Magnetic Field of Solar Active Regions = CHOUDHARYI et al. p.37
      31.Radial distribution of molecular gas in galaxies = NISHIYAMAI et al. p.38
      32.Discovery of a water megamaser in a starburst galaxy NGC 6240 = NAKAI et al. p.39
      33.Spectroscopic Studies of r-Process Elements in Extremely Metal-Poor Stars with Subaru HDS and Cosmochronometry = HONDA et al. p.40
      34.Small Fluctuation of Coronal X-Ray Intensity : Possibility of Nanofl are Heating = KATSUKAWA et al. p.41
      35.Lithium isotopic ratio in interstellar media = KAWANOMOTO et al. p.42
      36.Revision of Ephemeris Yearbook (Rekishoh-Nenpyoh) = FUKUSHIMA et al. p.43
      37.When did the Hubble Sequence Appear ? = YAMADA et al. p.45
      38.Bicolour Lightcurve of TNO 1996 TO66 with the ESO-VLT = SEKIGUCHI et al. p.46
      39.Probing Dark Matter Substructure in Lens Galaxies = CHIBA p.47
      40.Sensitivity of an imaging space infrared interferometer = NAKAJIMA et al. P.48
      41.CCD Photometry of the MUSES-C Mission Target: Asteroid (25143) 1998 SF36 = DERMAWAN et al. p.49

   II: Publications, Presentations ------ p.51

       1.Refereed Publications p.51
       2.Publications of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan p.60
       3.Report of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan p.60
       4.Other Publications p.60
       5.Presentations p.65