ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORYOF JAPAN (Volume 6) Fiscal 2003

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Preface & Table of Contents

Table of Contents

I: Scientific Highlights (2003 Apr. - 2004 Mar.)

  1. Interferometer Gravitational Wave Detector TAMA300
    Automatic Operation and International Collaboration Run ----- FUJIMOTO et al.     p.3
  2. Solar-B/Optical Telescope Flight Model is Coming Up ----- SUEMATSU et al. p.4
  3. Discovery of a Planetary Companion to the G-type Giant Star HD 104985 ----- SATO et al. p.5
  4. Discovery of a Large-Scale Structure at Redshift - 5 ----- SHIMASAKU et al. p.6
  5. Buried AGNs in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies ----- IMANISHI et al. p.7
  6. Compact Nuclear Starbursts in the CfA and 12 m n Seyfert 2 Galaxies ----- IMANISHI p.8
  7. X-ray Underluminous AGNs in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies ----- IMANISHI, TERASHIMA p.9
  8. Ha Impact Polarization Observed in a Gradual Flare ----- HANAOKA p.10
  9. Correlation Tracking Image Stabilizer for Ground-Base Solar Observations ----- HANAOKA p.11
  10. Detection of a Warm Molecular Wind in DG Tauri:
    a Milestone for Understanding the Mechanism of Mass Accretion and Ejection ----- TAKAMI et al.     p.12
  11. Universality in the Distribution of Caustics ----- YANO et al. p.13
  12. r-Process Abundance Universality and Actinide Cosmochronology ----- OTSUKI et al. p.14
  13. Subaru/FOCAS Spectropolarimetry of Type Ic Hypernova SN 2003dh/GRB 030329 ----- KAWABATA et al. p.15
  14. Late-time Spectroscopy of the Interacting Type Ia SN 2002ic:Evidence of a H-rich, Asymmetric CSM DENG et al. p.16
  15. SUBARU Deep Spectroscopy of the Very Extended Emission-Line Region of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4388 ----- YOSHIDA et al. p.17
  16. VERA Observations of the W49N H O 2 Maser Outburst ----- HONMA et al. p.18
  17. Meteoroid Clusters in Leonids: Evidence of Fragmentation in Space ----- WATANABE et al. p.19
  18. The Distribution of Star-Forming Regions in Luminous Infrared Galaxies ----- HATTORI et al. p.20
  19. Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imaging of Herbig Ae Star HD 150193A ----- FUKAGAWA et al. p.21
  20. The Collapse and Fragmentation of Magnetized Molecular Cloud - MHD Nested Grid Simulation ----- MACHIDA et al. p.22
  21. An Optical and NIR Search for Brown Dwarfs in the Pleiades Cluster ----- NAGASHIMA et al. p.23
  22. Evolution of DLA Systems From Hierarchical Galaxy Formation Models ----- OKOSHI et al. p.24
  23. Toward General Relativistic Gauge Invariant Nonlinear Perturbation ----- NAKAMURA p.25
  24. Discovery of Star Formation in Extended HI Gas around NGC 6822 ----- KOMIYAMA et al. p.26
  25. Magnetic Properties at the Footpoints of Hot and Cool Loops ----- KATSUKAWA, TSUNETA p.27
  26. High Resolution Lunar Gravity Anomaly Maps ----- SUGANO, HEKI p.28
  27. Observational Impact of Scattered Light from the Laser Beam of a Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics ----- HAYANO et al. p.29
  28. The Discovery of Two Lyman a Emitters beyond Redshift 6 in the Subaru Deep Field ----- KODAIRA et al. p.30
  29. New Methods to Monitor a Satellite-to-Satellite 4-way Link ----- ASARI et al. p.31
  30. Development of Ultra Light Weight Mirror for Space and Ground Based Telescopes ----- KOHARA et al. p.32
  31. Observation of Solar Flare Hard x-ray Spectra Using CdTe Detectors ----- KOBAYASHI et al. p.33
  32. Hard X-ray Surveys of AGNs :
    Revealing Formation History of Massive Black Holes in Galaxies ----- AKIYAMA et al.     p.34
  33. Nucleosynthesis of Light Elements and Heavy r-Process Elements through
    the o-Process in Supernova Explosions ----- YOSHIDA et al.     p.35
  34. Oscillations in the Coronal Green-Line Intensity
    Observed at Lomnicky Stit and Norikura Nearly Simultaneously ----- MINAROVJECH et al.     p.36
  35. New Clean Room for Space Instrumentation ----- NOGUCHI et al. p.37
  36. Oscillatory Orbits in the Standard Mapping ----- YAMAGUCHI, TANIKAWA p.39
  37. Subaru/HDS Studies of Eu Isotope Abundances in Metal-Deficient Stars ----- AOKI et al. p.40
  38. A New Precession Formula ----- FUKUSHIMA p.41
  39. Formation of the First Stars by Accretion ----- OMUKAI, PALLA p.42
  40. The Mass Spectrum of Metal-free Stars Resulting from Photodissociation Feedback:
    A Scenario for the Formation of Low-mass Population III Stars ----- OMUKAI, YOSHII     p.43
  41. An S0-like Galaxy Found at Redshift 1.5 ----- IYE et al. p.44
  42. Disappearing Dark Matter in Brane World Cosmology:
    New Limits on Noncompact Extra Dimensions ----- ICHIKI et al.     p.45

II Publications, Presentations ----- p.46

  1. Refereed publications ----- p.46
  2. Publications of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ----- p.59
  3. Report of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ----- p.59
  4. Other Publications ----- p.59
  5. Presentations ----- p.68