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1 Spectropolarimetric Studies on Circumstellar Structure of Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Stars ELT Statistical Properties of Lyman a Emitters at Redshift 5.7 Neutrino Probes of Galactic and Cosmological Supernovae Interstellar Depletion and Chemical Composition of Interstellar Dust Probed by Infrared Spectroscopy ISAS/JAXA Nuclear Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Early-type Galaxies Spectroscopic study of dynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere Properties of galactic bars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Structures of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies in Strong Gravitational Lenses At X-ray Study on the Spatial Distribution of Heavy Elements in Hot Plasmas Associated with Cluster of Galaxies The study of Astrophysical Jets and Accretion Disks by Three-Dimansional MHD Simulations Observational Studies of Convective Structure in Emerging Flux Region Reconstructing the Primordial Spectrum with CMB Temperature and Polarization
2 Braneworld Cosmological Perturbations Systematic Survey of Extended Lyman a Sources over z35 X-ray Study of Ground-Based Plasmas with TES Microcalorimeters The Optical System of Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph and Its Application to the GOODS-N Field The properties of prompt emissions and afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts observed by HETE-2 and BeppoSAX Energetic Phenomena of the Solar FlaresPlasmoid Ejections and Particle Transport and Acceleration Primordial Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Microwave Background Light propagation and gravitational lensing on the Weyl-like spacetime in scalar-tensor theories of gravity The near-infrared multi-object spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope and its application to the observations of distant galaxies Study of positional stability and spatial structures of Active Galactic Nuclei as the preliminary work of the phase referencing observation with VERA Ae Observational Studies of Flare-Associated Waves and Reconnection Inflows X-ray Study of Mass Distribution in Cluster of Galaxies Curvaton scenario in a theory with two dilatons coupled to the scalar curvature Gravitational Radiation and Reaction in an Extreme Mass Ratio Binary System Gravitational waves from a particle orbiting a Kerr black hole
3 A Spectropolarimetric Study of Circumstellar Region around Primordial Molecular Emission in Population III Star-Forming Region KaluzaKlein Modes in Braneworld Cosmology X-ray Study of Planetary Nebulae An Observational Study of Molecular Clouds at High Galactic Latitude Ae Brane gravity and dynamical stability in warped flux compactification A High-resolution Imaging Study of Distant Galaxies using Adaptive Optics System 2005 X PoGO Massive gravity de Sitter ghost Detection of a bipolar-outflow from the AGB star: WX-Psc Evolution of Supermassive Blackhole Triples in Galactic Center SDSS Broad Absorption Line Quasar At SIS X
4 VERA 22 GHz Survey jitter radiation CG CMB MHD CG At 3 ALMA G CO At Detectability of cosmic dark baryons through highresolution spectroscopy in soft X-ray band UIR VERA IRAS In-Orbit Calibration of the HXD onboard Suzaku
5 2 Cute-1.7 APD Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies NaI WINERED 2 APD array VLSI X g X-mas NANTEN2 Ae B H13CO (J10) Ae TeV TeV VLBI observations of the SiO masers in WX-Psc HN
6 Multi-Fourier Interferometer Propagation of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays in Cosmic Magnetic Fields Loh & Spillar Ia Ge : Ga UIR ANew Model for the Mid-Infrared Spectral Energy Distribution of the Galaxy and Mid-Infrared High Spatial-Resolution Observations of the Dward Galaxy NGC1569 NANTEN2 Ae Gamma-Ray Luminosity Function of Blazars and the Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background MHD The Ha Luminosity function at z in the Subaru Deep Field
7 2 16 Z Ae UIR Type II Cepheid RVTauri 12CO and 13CO J10) survey of molecular clouds toward the third Galactic quadrant Ae TES X UV flux X X CCD LSI Detection of the Optical Extragalactic Background Light by means of Dark Cloud Shielding Application of strong gravitational lensing to cosmology
8 ULX III CO Ae SUZAKU XIS Near-Infrared Observations of SiO Maser Sources UIR X The star formation activity at z0.24 in the Subaru Deep Field roap Nano-JASMINE TES X g T-Lep w 1 Dark energy 190 GHz
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