Masafumi Matsumura's Some Papers in English


Correlation between Interstellar Polarization and Dust Temperature: Is the Alignment of Grains by Radiative Torques Ubiquitous?

MATSUMURA, M., KAMEURA, Y., KAWABATA, K.S. AKITAYA, H. ISOGAI, M. and SEKI, M.
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Vol.63, No.5, pp.L43-L47 (2011)

Grain Alignment in OMC1 as Deduced from Observed Large Circular Polariztaion

Matsumura, M.; Bastien, P.
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 697, Issue 1, pp. 807-823 (2009)

Are there Aligned Grains Around Young Stellar Objects?

Bastien, P.; Matsumura, M.

Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions ASP Conference Series, Vol. 343, Proceedings of the Conference held 15-19 March, 2004 in Waikoloa, Hawai'i, USA. Edited by A. Adamson, C. Aspin, C. J. Davis, and T. Fujiyoshi, p.149

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Polarized Light by Imperfectly Aligned Grains

Matsumura, M.; Bastien, P.

Grain Formation Workshop 2003 (Vol.XXIII), Proceedings of the Conference held in 21-22 Novermber, 2003 at Gunma Astronomical Observatory, Gunma, Japan. Edited by C. Kaito and O. Hashimoto, pp.7-12


Spectropolarimetry of the Young Stellar Object R Mon

In 'Star Formation 1999', ed. by T. Nakamoto, published by Nobeyama Radio Observatory 1999, pp.320-321

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Simultaneous Polarimetry and Photometry of the Young Stellar Object R Mon

Astronomial Journal 117, 429, 1999

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To be a standard, or not to be? - Variable polarization in 9 Gem

In 'Pulsating Stars, Recent Developments in Theory and Observation', ed. by M. Takeuti and D.D. Sasselov, Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, 1998

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Very old papers in the 20th century: link to ADS ...Back to the Past!

Matsumura, M. and Seki, M. 1996, Extinction and Polarization by Ellipsoidal Particles in the Infrared

Seki, M. and Matsumura, M. 1996, Polarization by Dust in High Latitude Clouds, ASPC 97 168

Matsumura, M. and Seki, M. 1995, Polarimetric Properties of the Reflection Nebula R Mon/NGC 2261, ApSS 224 513

Matsumura, M. and Seki, M. 1991, Light scattering calculations by the Fredholm integral equation method, ApSS 176 283

Matsumura, M. and Seki, M. 1989, Dust grains in M 104, AAp 209 8


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