• A Search for Calcium in the Atmosphere of Europa with Ground-based Telescope
    S. Takagi, T. Tsurumi, J. Kimura, T. Matsuo, and K. Yoshioka
    Res. Notes AAS 9, 88, 10.3847/2515-5172/adccba, 2025.
  • The Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) on the Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE) Mission
    H. Hussmann, K. Lingenauber, A. Stark, K. Enya. N. Thomas, L. M. Lara, C. Althaus, H. Araki, T. Behnke, J. Binger, D. Breuer, S. Csotto, J. M. Castro, G. Choblet, U. Christensen, W. Coppoolse, H. Eisenmenger, S. Ferraz-Mello, M. Fujii, N. Fujishiro, G. Gallina, K. Gwinner, E. Hauber, U. Heer, R. Henkelmann, M. Herranz, C. Huttig, S. Iwamura, J. Jimenez, J. Kimura et al.
    Space Sci. Rev. 221, 33, 10.1007/s11214-025-01149-7, 2025.
  • Remote Detection of Red Edge Spectral Characteristics in Floating Aquatic Vegetation
    A. Murakami, Y. Komatsu and K. Takizawa
    Astrobiology 25.3, doi.org/10.1089/ast.2024.0127, 2025.
  • Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria’s light-harvesting system
    T. Matsuo, K. Ito-Miwa, Y. Hoshino, Y. I. Fujii, S. Kanno, K. J. Fujimoto, R. Tsuji, S. Takeda, C. Onami, C. Arai, Y. Yoshiyama, Y. Mino, Y. Kato, T. Yanai, Y. Fujita, S. Masuda, T. Kakegawa and H. Miyashita
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, 10.1038/s41559-025-02637-3, 2025.
  • Internal Structure of Ganymede
    H. Hussmann, G. Schubert. G. Steinbrugge, F. Sohl and J. Kimura
    in Ganymede, Eds. M. McGrath, X. Jia, T. Spohn and M. Volwerk, pp. 77-86, 10.1017/9781108966474.007, 2025.

  • A search for water vapor plumes on Europa by spatially-resolved spectroscopic observation using SUBARU/IRCS
    J. Kimura, T. Matsuo, H. Kobayashi, Y. Ikeda, K. Yoshioka, S. Takagi and S. Ida
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 10.1093/pasj/psae089, 2024.
  • 宇宙生物学的視点から捉える光合成生物と地球の共進化
    松尾 太郎, 藤井 悠里, 武田 真之介, 三輪 久美子, 新井 千紘, 菅野 里美, 宮下 英明
    光合成研究 34 (1), 2024. [pdf]
  • Theoretical Performance Evaluation of Wide-band Diffraction-limited Coronagraph for the Next-generation Segmented Large Telescopes
    R. Kojima, S. Itoh, S. Ota, Y. Ikeda, T. Bessho and T. Matsuo
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 136, 114503, 10.1088/1538-3873/ad77f2, 2024.
  • Geophysical characterization of the interiors of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa by ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer
    T. V. Hoolst, G. Tobie, C. Vallat, N. Altobelli, L. Bruzzone, H. Cao, D. Dirkx, A. Genova, H. Hussmann, L. Iess, J. Kimura et al.
    Space Sci. Rev. 220, 54, 10.1007/s11214-024-01085-y, 2024.
  • How much heat does non-photochemical quenching produce?
    A. Murakami, Eunchul Kim, J. Minagawa and K. Takizawa
    Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 10.3389/fpls.2024.1367795, 2024.
  • Europa's structural conditions for the existence of subsurface ocean and the absence of metallic core-driven magnetic field
    J. Kimura
    Planetary and Space Science 243, 105868, 10.1016/j.pss.2024.105868, 2024.
  • Wide-Spectral Band Fiber Nulling Insensitive to Finite Stellar Angular Diameter with a One-Dimensional Diffraction-Limited Coronagraph
    S. Itoh, T. Matsuo, and M. Tamura
    Astron. J. 167, 235, 10.3847/1538-3881/ad3733, 2024.
  • Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) XI. Phase-space synthesis decomposition for planet detection and characterization
    T. Matsuo, F. Dannert, R. Laugier, S. P. Quanz, A. B. Kovačević and LIFE Collaboration
    Astron. Astrophys. 678, A97, 10.1051/0004-6361/202345927 , 2023.
  • Introduction to Dione's Wispy Terrain as a Putative Model Region for "Micro" Wilson Cycles on Icy Satellites
    B. Bradak, J. Kimura, D. Asahina, M. El Yazidi and C. Orgel
    Remote Sens. 15 (21), 5177, 10.3390/rs15215177, 2023.
  • Experimental Verification of a One-dimensional Diffraction-limit Coronagraph
    S. Itoh, T. Matsuo, et al.
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 135, 064502, 10.1088/1538-3873/acdbea, 2023.
  • A plasma irradiation system optimized for space weathering of solar system bodies
    T. Kimura, M. Otsuki. T. Kitano, R. Hoshino, Y. Nakauchi, S. Haganuma, R. Haganuma, T. Haganuma, F. Tsuchiya, T. Tamagawa, A. Hayato, J. Kimura et al.
    Earth, Planets and Space 75, 150, 10.1186/s40623-023-01900-w, 2023.
  • Separation of quasi-continuous and periodic components of lineament formation at the Belus - Phoenix - Rhadamanthys Linea "triangle" on Europa
    B. Bradak, J. Kimura, C. Gomez, and Á. Kereszturi
    Icarus 391, 115367, 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115367, 2023.
  • The Japan-United States Infrared Interferometry Experiment (JUStIInE): balloon-borne pathfinder for a space-based far-IR interferometer
    D. T. Leisawitz, T. Matsuo, G. Mosby, et al.
    Proceedings of the SPIE, 12190-98, 10.1117/12.2629426, 2022.
  • Development of a high-precision spectrograph for diffraction-limited coronagraph
    S. Ota, T. Matsuo, et al.
    Proceedings of the SPIE, 12188-183, 10.1117/12.2629324, 2022.

  • Development progress of diffraction-limited coronagraphs with moderate spectral bandwidths
    S. Itoh, T. Matsuo, Y. Ikeda, et al.
    Proceedings of the SPIE, 12188-158, 10.1117/12.2629087, 2022.
  • A Coronagraph with a Sub-lambda/D Inner Working Angle and a Moderate Spectral Bandwidth
    S. Itoh and T. Matsuo
    Astron. J. 163, 279, 10.3847/1538-3881/ac658a, 2022.
  • Densified Pupil Spectrograph as High-precision Radial Velocimetry: From Direct Measurement of the Universe's Expansion History to Characterization of Nearby Habitable Planet Candidates
    T. Matsuo, T. P. Greene, M. Qezlou, S. Bird, K. Ichiki, Y. Fujii, and T. Yamamuro
    Astron. J., 10.3847/1538-3881/ac397b, 2022.
  • High spatial resolution spectral imaging method for space interferometers and its application to formation flying small satellites
    T. Matsuo, S. Ikari, H. Kondo, S. Ishiwata, S. Nakasuka, and T. Yamamuro
    J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst., 10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.015001, 2022.
  • The Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE): Mission, science, and instrumentation of its receiver modules
    K. Enya, M. Kobayashi, J. Kimura et al.
    Advances in Space Research, 10.1016/j.asr.2021.11.036, 2021.
  • Polarimetric Signature of Ocean as Detected by Near-Infrared Earthshine Observations
    J. Takahashi, Y. Itoh, T. Matsuo, et al.
    Astron. Astrophys. 653, A99, 10.1051/0004-6361, 2021.
  • Spectroscopic Fourth-order Coronagraph for the Characterization of Terrestrial Planets at Small Angular Separations from Host Stars
    T. Matsuo, S. Itoh, and Y. Ikeda
    Astron. J., 10.3847/1538-3881/abd248, 2021.
  • Detecting Atmospheric Molecules of Nontransiting Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets using High-Resolution Spectroscopy in the Mid Infrared Regime
    Y. Fujii and T. Matsuo
    Astron. J., 161, 180, 10.3847/1538-3881/abe129, 2021.
  • Mid-infrared Spectrometer and Camera (MISC) for Origins
    I. Sakon, T. L. Roellig, K. Ennico-Smith, T. Matsuo
    J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 7, 011013, 2021.
  • Stability of the subsurface ocean of Pluto
    J. Kimura and S. Kamata
    Planetary and Space Science 181, 104848, 10.1016/j.pss.2019.104828, 2020.
  • Laboratory Experiment of Densified Pupil Spectrograph
    T. Matsuo, T. Greene, R. R. Johnson et al.
    Proceedings of the SPIE, 11443, 11436D, 10.1117/12.2560421, 2020.
  • Fourth-order Coronagraph for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Off-axis Segmented Telescopes
    S. Itoh, and T. Matsuo
    Astron. J. 159, 213, 10.3847/1538-3881/ab811c, 2020.
  • Mid-infrared detector development for the Origins Space Telescope
    T. L. Roellig, C. McMurty, T. P. Greene, T. Matsuo, I. Sakon, and J. Staguhn
    J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 6, 041503, 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.4.041503, 2020.
  • The Ganymede laser altimeter (GALA): key objectives, instrument design, and performance
    H. Hussmann, K. Lingenauber, R. Kallenbach. K. Enya. N. Thomas,. L. M. Lara, C. Althaus, H. Araki, T. Behnke, J. M. Castro-Marin, H. Eisenmenger, T. Gerber, M. H. de la Revilla, C. Huttig, K. Ishibashi, J. Jimenez-Ortega, J. Kimura et al.
    CEAS Space Journal 11-4, 381-390, 2019.
  • Multiple populations of extrasolar gas giants
    S. Goda, and T. Matsuo
    Astrophys. J. 876, 23, 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f9c, 2019.
  • Photometric Precision of a Si:As Impurity Band Conduction Mid-infrared Detector and Application to Transit Spectroscopy
    T. Matsuo, T. P. Greene, R. R. Johnson, R. E. Mcmurray, T. L. Roellig, and K. Ennico
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131-1006, 124502, 2019.
  • Pluto's ocean is capped and insulated by gas hydrates
    S. Kamata, F. Nimmo, Y. Sekine, K. Kuramoto, N. Noguchi, J. Kimura and A. Tani
    Nature Geoscience 12, 407-410, 10.1038/s41561-019-0369-8, 2019.
  • The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes
    S. Sugita, R. Honda, T. Morota, S. Kameda, H. Sawada, E. Tatsumi, M. Yamada, C. Honda, Y. Yokota, T. Kouyama, N. Sakatani, K. Ogawa, H. Suzuki, T. Okada, N. Namiki, S. Tanaka, Y. Iijima, K. Yoshioka, M. Hayakawa, Y. Cho, M. Matsuoka, N. Hirata, N. Hirata, H. Miyamoto, D. Domingue, M. Hirabayashi, T. Nakamura, T. Hiroi, T. Michikami, P. Michel, R. -L. Ballouz, O. S. Barnouin, C. M. Ernst, S. E. Schroder, H. Kikuchi, R. Hemmi, G. Komatsu, T. Fukuhara, M. Taguchi, T. Arai, H. Senshu, H. Demura, Y. Ogawa, Y. Shimaki, T. Sekiguchi, T. G. Muller, A. Hagermann, T. Mizuno, H. Noda, K. Matsumoto, R. Yamada, Y. Ishihara, H. Ikeda, H. Araki, K. Yamamoto, S. Abe, F. Yoshida, A. Higuchi, S. Sasaki, S. Oshigami, S. Tsuruta, K. Asari, S. Tazawa, M. Shizugami, J. Kimura et al.
    Science 364, 6437, 10.1126/science.aaw0422, 2019.
  • Global classification of lunar reflectance spectra obtained by Kaguya (SELENE): Implication for hidden basaltic materials
    M. Hareyama, Y. Ishihara, H. Demura, N. Hirata, C. Honda, S. Kamata, Y. Karouji, J. Kimura, T. Morota, H. Nagaoka, R. Nakamura, S. Yamamoto, Y. Yokota and M. Ohtake
    Icarus 321, 407-425, 2019.
  • Science Objectives of the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for the JUICE mission
    J. Kimura, H. Hussman, S. Kamata, K. Matsumoto, J. Oberst, G. Steinbrugge, A. Stark, K. Gwinner, S. Oshigami, N. Namiki, K. Lingenauber, K. Enya, K. Kuramoto, and S. Sasaki
    Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences 17, 234-248, 2019.
  • Active Surface and Interior of Europa as a Potential Deep Habitat
    J. Kimura, in Astrobiology, Eds. A. Yamagishi, T. Kakegawa and T. Usui, 2019.
  • Orbital evolution of Saturn's mid-sized moons and the tidal heating of Enceladus
    A. Nakajima, S. Ida, J. Kimura, and R. Brasser
    Icarus 317, 570-582, 2019.
  • Point spread function of hexagonally segmented telescopes by new symmetrical formulation
    S. Itoh, T. Matsuo, H. Shibai, and T. Sumi
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483, 119-131, 10.1093/mnras/sty3052, 2018.
  • A new method for Calibration of Gain Variation in Detector System
    S. Goda, and T. Matsuo
    Astronomical Journal, 156, 288, 10.3847/1538-3881/aaeb29, 2018.
  • A stable spectrophotometric capability for the Origins Space Telescope (OST) Mid-infrared Imager, Spectrometer, Coronagraph (MISC)
    T. Matsuo, T. Greene, T. Roellig, et al.
    Proceedings of SPIE, 10698, 200, 0.1117/12.2311896, 2018.
  • Feasibility of the exploration of the subsurface structures of Jupiter's icy moons by interference of Jovian hectometric and decametric radiation
    A. Kumamoto, Y. Kasaba, F. Tsuchiya, H. Misawa, H. Kita, W. Puccioy, J.-E. Wahlundy, J. Bergmany, B. Cecconi, Y. Gotox, J. Kimura, and T. Kobayashi
    Planetary Radio Emissions VIII, 127-136, 2018.
  • Pupil masks for Spectrophotometry of Transiting Planets
    S. Itoh, T. Matsuo, S. Goda, H. Shibai, and T. Sumi
    Astronomical Journal, 154, 197, 10.3847/1538-3881/aa8304, 2017.
  • Feasibility of spectro-polarimetric characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with direct observing instruments
    J. Takahashi, T. Matsuo, and Y. Itoh
    Astron. Astrophys. 599, 56, 10.1051/0004-6361/201628206, 2017.
  • 地球外生命探査 (Exploration for the Extra-Terrestrial Life in the Solar System),
    木村 淳,山岸 明彦,
    日本物理学会誌, 第72巻・第2号・111-120,2017.[pdf]
  • A New Concept for Spectrophotometry of Exoplanets with Space-borne Telescopes
    T. Matsuo, S. Itoh, H. Shibai, T. Sumi, and T. Yamamuro
    Astrophys. J. 823, 139, 10.3847/0004-637X/823/2/139, 2016.
  • A substellar companion to Pleiades HII 3441
    M. Konishi, T. Matsuo, K. Yamamoto, et al.
    Publication of Astronomical Society of Japan, 68, 92, 10.1093/pasj/psw083, 2016.