KAGRA Publications

• See LVK publications for LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration papers after 2020.

List of Journal papers, PhD theses, Master theses, and Graduation theses related to KAGRA research.

• Links to the list of theses for groups in the KAGRA collaboration are also listed at the bottom of this page.

• Publication policy and CPC submission Page

• Default KAGRA author-list 2018

• Conference information and approved Acknowledgements

• Playground data

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• Overview of KAGRA : (4) Data transfer and management

  • PWT leader: Nobuyuki Kanda Overleaf

• Overview of KAGRA : (5) Data analysis methods

  • PWT leader: Hideyuki Tagoshi Overleaf

• IOO paper in preparation

Submitted Papers

• Overview of KAGRA : (2) Noise Budget

  • PWT leaders: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Keiko Kokeyama, Tatsuki Washimi JGW-P2113405

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07011

• The current status and future prospects of KAGRA, the large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope built in the Kamioka underground
  • T.Ushiba, M.Nakano, T.Washimi

  • JGW-P2113549

Accepted Papers

Journal Papers

• Local Hurst exponent computation of data from triaxial seismometers monitoring KAGRA
  • A. Longo, S. Bianchi, W. Plastinao, K. Miyo, T. Yokozawa, T. Washimi, A. Araya

  • Pure and Applied Geophysics volume 178, pages3461–3470 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-021-02810-2

• The KAGRA underground environment and lessons for the Einstein Telescope
  • F. Badaracco, C. D. Rossi, I. Fiori, J. Harms, K. Miyo, F. Paoletti, T. Tanaka, T. Washimi, T. Yokozawa

  • Phys. Rev. D 104, 042006 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.042006

• Effects of lightning strokes on underground gravitational waves observatories
  • T. Washimi, T. Yokozawa, M. Nakano, T. Tanaka, K. Kaihotsu, Y. Mori, T. Narita

  • JINST 16 P07033 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/07/P07033

• Method for environmental noise estimation via injection tests for ground-based gravitational wave detectors
  • Tatsuki Washimi, Takaaki Yokozawa, Taiki Tanaka2, Yosuke Itoh, Jun'ya Kume, and Jun'ichi Yokoyama

  • Class. Quantum Grav. 38 125005 (2021); https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5792-4907

• High performance thermal link with small spring constant for cryogenic applications
  • Tomohiro Yamada, Takayuki Tomaru, Toshikazu Suzuki, Takafumi Ushiba, Nobuhiro Kimura, Suguru Takada, Yuki Inoue, Takaaki Kajita

  • Cryogenics 116 (2021) 103280; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011227521000382

• Cryogenic suspension design for a kilometer-scale gravitational-wave detector
  • Takafumi Ushiba, Tomotada Akutsu, Sakae Araki, Rishabh Bajpai, Dan Chen, Kieran Craig, Yutaro Enomoto, Ayako Hagiwara, Sadakazu Haino, Yuki Inoue, Kiwamu Izumi, Nobuhiro Kimura, Rahul Kumar, Yuta Michimura, Shinji Miyoki, Iwao Murakami, Yoshikazu Namai, Masayuki Nakano, Masatake Ohashi, Koki Okutomi, Takaharu Shishido, Ayaka Shoda, Kentaro Somiya, Toshikazu Suzuki, Suguru Takada, Masahiro Takahashi, Ryutaro Takahashi, Shinichi Terashima, Takayuki Tomaru, Flavio Travasso, Ayako Ueda, Helios Vocca, Tomohiro Yamada, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, and Simon Zeidler

  • Class. Quantum Grav. 38 (2021) 085013; https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/abe9f3

• Vibration isolation systems for the beam splitter and signal recycling mirrors of the KAGRA gravitational wave detector
  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2019 )
  • PWT leader: Mark Barton, Naoatsu Hirata, Fabian E Pena Arellano, Enzo Tapia, Tak Lun Terrence Tsang,

  • JGW-P2011860

  • Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2020) 065011

  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abd922

• Overview of KAGRA: Calibration, detector characterization, physical environmental monitors, and the geophysics interferometer
  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2018 + 2019)
  • PWT leaders: Takahiro Yamamoto, Yuki Inoue, Takaaki Yokozawa

  • Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. (2021) Volume 2021, Issue 5, May 2021, 05A101 https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptab018

  • arXiv2009/09305

• Demographic Landscape of the KAGRA collaboration
  • Keiko Kokeyama, Chunglee Kim, Joseph M. Fedrow, and Ayaka Shoda

  • AIP Conference Proceedings 2319, 150001 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036998

• Overview of KAGRA : Detector design and construction history
  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2018 )
  • PWT leaders: Kentaro Somiya, Yuta Michimura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto (advisors: Osamu Miyakawa, Masayuki Nakano)

  • Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. (2021) Volume 2021, Issue 5, May 2021, 05A101 https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptaa125

  • Overleaf, JGW-P2011614

• Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science
  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2018 + 2019 + 3 )
  • PWT leader: Atsushi Nishizawa

  • Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. (2021) Volume 2021, Issue 5, May 2021, 05A103 https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptaa120

  • The arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02921 submission was made August 7, 2020.

  • JGWdoc-P2011478

• Prospects for improving the sensitivity of the cryogenic gravitational wave detector KAGRA
  • Yuta Michimura, Kentaro Komori, Yutaro Enomoto, Koji Nagano, Atsushi Nishizawa, Eiichi Hirose, Matteo Leonardi, Eleonora Capocasa, Naoki Aritomi, Yuhang Zhao, Raffaele Flaminio, Takafumi Ushiba, Tomohiro Yamada, Li-Wei Wei, Hiroki Takeda, Satoshi Tanioka, Masaki Ando, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Hayama, Sadakazu Haino, Kentaro Somiya

  • Phys. Rev. D 102, 022008 (2020)

• Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
  • LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration [aka scenario paper]

  • Living Reviews in Relativity volume 23, Article number: 3 (2020) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41114-020-00026-9

  • arXiv:1304.0670

• Application of the independent component analysis to the iKAGRA data

  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2015+2018)
  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2020, 053F01 (2020)

  • JGWdoc P2010218, arXiv:1908.03013

• Quantum noise reduction techniques in KAGRA

  • Kentaro Somiya
  • European Physical Journal D 74, 10 (2020)

  • JGWdoc P1910812

• An arm length stabilization system for KAGRA and future gravitational-wave detectors

  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2018)

  • Class. Quant. Grav. 37 (2020) 035004 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab5c95

  • arXiv:1910.00955

  • JGWdoc P1910539

• The status of KAGRA underground cryogenic gravitational wave telescope

  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2016)
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1342, 012014 (2020)

  • arXiv:1710.04823

  • JGW-P1707191

• Influence of non-uniformity in sapphire substrates for a gravitational wave telescope

  • Kentaro Somiya, Eiichi Hirose, Yuta Michimura
  • Physical Review D 100, 082005 (2019)

  • draft at JGW-P1910460

• Design and experimental demonstration of a laser modulation system for future gravitational-wave detectors

  • Kohei Yamamoto, Keiko Kokeyama, Yuta Michimura, Yutaro Enomoto, Masayuki Nakano, Gui-Guo Ge, Tomoyuki Uehara, Kentaro Somiya, Kiwamu Izumi, Osamu Miyakawa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Takaaki Yokozawa, Yuta Fujikawa, Nobuyuki Fujii, Takaaki Kajita
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 36, 205009 (2019)

• First cryogenic test operation of underground km-scale gravitational-wave observatory KAGRA

  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2016+2017+ additional NAOJ and KEK members)

  • Class. Quant. Grav. 36 (2019) 165008 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab28a9

  • arXiv:1901.03569

  • draft at JGW-P1809289

• KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector

  • KAGRA collaboration (author-list 2016+2017)

  • Nature Astronomy, 3 (2019) 35–40. (article in Perspective section) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0658-y

  • published copy at JGW-P1809572

• Vibration isolation system with a compact damping system for power recycling mirrors of KAGRA

  • KAGRA collaboration

  • Class. Quant. Grav. 36 (2019) 095015 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab0fcb/pdf

  • draft at JGW-P1808526

  • arXiv:1901.03053

• Molecular adsorbed layer formation on cooled mirrors and its impacts on cryogenic gravitational wave telescopes

  • Kunihiko Hasegawa, Tomotada Akutsu, Nobuhiro Kimura, Yoshio Saito, Toshikazu Suzuki, Takayuki Tomaru, Ayako Ueda, and Shinji Miyoki
  • Phys. Rev. D 99, 022003 (2019)

• Demonstration for a two-axis interferometric tilt sensor in KAGRA

  • Keiko Kokeyama, June Gyu Park, Kyuman Cho, Shin Kirii, Tomotada Akutsu, Masayuki Nakanoa, Shogo Kambara, Kunihiko Hasegawa, Naoko Ohishi, Kohei Doi, Seiji Kawamura
  • Physics Letters A 382, 1950 (2018)

• Polarization test of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

  • Hiroki Takeda, Atsushi Nishizawa, Yuta Michimura, Koji Nagano, Kentaro Komori, Masaki Ando, Kazuhiro Hayama
  • Phys. Rev. D 98, 022008 (2018)

• Particle swarm optimization of the sensitivity of a cryogenic gravitational wave detector

  • Yuta Michimura, Kentaro Komori, Atsushi Nishizawa, Hiroki Takeda, Koji Nagano, Yutaro Enomoto, Kazuhiro Hayama, Kentaro Somiya, and Masaki Ando
  • Phys. Rev. D 97, 122003 (2018)

• Optical design and suspension system of the KAGRA output mode-cleaner

  • Junko Kasuya, John Winterflood, Ju Li and Kentaro Somiya
  • J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 957, 012009 (2018)

• Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

  • KAGRA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (author-list 2015)

  • Living Reviews in Relativity 21, 3 (2018) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41114-018-0012-9

  • https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0670 [latest update: 27 Sep 2019 (version 9)]

• Construction of KAGRA: an underground gravitational-wave observatory

  • KAGRA Collaboration et al. (author-list 2016++)
  • Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 2018, 013F01 (2018)

• Status of KAGRA: Construction, commissioning and data distribution toward the first operation in 2015

  • Nobuyuki Kanda, on behalf of the KAGRA collaboration
  • The Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, pp. 3159-3163 (2017)

• Mirror actuation design for the interferometer control of the KAGRA gravitational wave telescope

  • Yuta Michimura, Tomofumi Shimoda, Takahiro Miyamoto, Ayaka Shoda, Koki Okutomi, Yoshinori Fujii, Hiroki Tanaka, Mark A. Barton, Ryutaro Takahashi, Yoichi Aso, Tomotada Akutsu, Masaki Ando, Yutaro Enomoto, Raffaele Flaminio, Kazuhiro Hayama, Eiichi Hirose, Yuki Inoue, Takaaki Kajita, Masahiro Kamiizumi, Seiji Kawamura, Keiko Kokeyama, Kentaro Komori, Rahul Kumar, Osamu Miyakawa, Koji Nagano, Masayuki Nakano, Naoko Ohishi, Ching Pin Ooi, Fabián Erasmo Peña Arellano, Yoshio Saito, Katsuhiko Shimode, Kentaro Somiya, Hiroki Takeda, Takayuki Tomaru, Takashi Uchiyama, Takafumi Ushiba, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Takaaki Yokozawa, Hirotaka Yuzurihara
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 34, 225001(2017)

• Design and operation of a 1500-m laser strainmeter installed at underground site in Kamioka

  • Akito Araya, Akiteru Takamori, Wataru Morii, Kouseki Miyo, Masatake Ohashi, Kazuhiro Hayama, Takashi Uchiyama, Shinji Miyoki and Yoshio Saito
  • Earth, Planets and Space 69, 77 (2017)

• Calculation method for light scattering caused by multilayer coated mirrors in gravitational wave detectors

  • Simon Zeidler, Tomotada Akutsu, Yasuo Torii, Eiichi Hirose, Yoichi Aso, and Raffaele Flaminio
  • Optics Express 25, 4741-4760 (2017)

• Analysis of the real gravitational wave data GW150914 with the Hilbert-Huang transform

  • Kazuki Sakai, Ken-ichi Oohara, Masato Kaneyama, Hirotaka Takahashi
  • ICIC Express Letters, Vol.11 No.1, pp. 45-52 (2017).

• Characterization of the room temperature payload prototype for the cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave detector KAGRA

  • Fabián Erasmo Peña Arellano, Takanori Sekiguchi, Yoshinori Fujii, Ryutaro Takahashi, Mark Barton, Naoatsu Hirata, Ayaka Shoda, Joris van Heijningen, Raffaele Flaminio, Riccardo DeSalvo, Koki Okutumi, Tomotada Akutsu, Yoichi Aso, Hideharu Ishizaki, Naoko Ohishi, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Takashi Uchiyama, Osamu Miyakawa, Masahiro Kamiizumi, Akiteru Takamori, Ettore Majorana, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Eric Hennes, Jo van den Brand, and Alessandro Bertolini

  • Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 034501 (2016)

• The cryogenic challenge: status of the KAGRA project

  • Raffaele Flaminio on behalf of theKAGRA collaboration
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 716, 012034 (2016)

• Status of the cryogenic payload system for the KAGRA detector

  • R Kumar, D Chen, A Hagiwara, T Kajita, T Miyamoto, T Suzuki, Y Sakakibara, H Tanaka, K Yamamoto and T Tomaru
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 716, 012017 (2016)

• Design study and prototype experiment of the KAGRA output mode-cleaner

  • Kazushiro Yano, Ayaka Kumeta, Kentaro Somiya
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 716, 012020 (2016)

• Unveiling linearly and nonlinearly correlated signals between gravitational wave detectors and environmental monitors

  • Hirotaka Yuzurihara, Kazuhiro Hayama, Shuhei Mano, Didier Verkindt, and Nobuyuki Kanda, Phys. Rev. D 94, 042004 (2016)

• Measurement of Schumann Resonance at Kamioka

  • S. Atsuta, T. Ogawa, S. Yamaguchi, K. Hayama, A. Araya, N. Kanda, O. Miyakawa, S. Miyoki, A. Nishizawa, K. Ono, Y. Saito, K. Somiya, T. Uchiyama, M. Uyeshima and K. Yano
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 716 012032 (2016)

• Vacuum and cryogenic compatible black surface for large optical baffles in advanced gravitational-wave telescopes

  • Tomotada Akutsu, Yoshio Saito, Yusuke Sakakibara, Yoshihiro Sato, Yoshito Niwa, Nobuhiro Kimura, Toshikazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Chihiro Tokoku, Shigeaki Koike, Dan Chen, Simon Zeidler, Kouichi Ikeyama, and Yusuke Ariyama
  • Optical Materials Express 6, 1613-1626 (2016)

• Characterization of non-Gaussianity in gravitational wave detector noise

  • Takahiro Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Hayama, Shuhei Mano, Yousuke Itoh, and Nobuyuki Kanda
  • Phys. Rev. D 93, 082005 (2016)

• Estimation of losses in a 300 m filter cavity and quantum noise reduction in the KAGRA gravitational-wave detector

  • Eleonora Capocasa, Matteo Barsuglia, Jérôme Degallaix, Laurent Pinard, Nicolas Straniero, Roman Schnabel, Kentaro Somiya, Yoichi Aso, Daisuke Tatsumi, and Raffaele Flaminio
  • Phys. Rev. D 93, 082004 (2016)

• Environmental Monitoring System in KAGRA

  • Yukitsugu Sasaki on behalf of the KAGRA collaboration
  • ICIC Express Letters Part B : Applications, Vol.7 No.11, pp. 2331-2338 (2016).

• Large-scale cryogenic gravitational-wave telescope in Japan: KAGRA

  • Tomotada Akutsu (for the KAGRA collaboration)
  • Journal of Physics: Conference Series 610, 012016 (2015)

• Gravitational waves: Classification, methods of detection, sensitivities and sources

  • Kazuaki Kuroda, Wei-Tou Ni, Wei-Ping Pan
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D 24, 1530031 (2015)

• Design study of the KAGRA output mode-cleaner

  • Ayaka Kumeta, Charlotte Bond, Kentaro Somiya
  • Optical Review 22, 149-152 (2015)

• An experiment to distinguish between diffusive and specular surfaces for thermal radiation in cryogenic gravitational-wave detectors

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, Nobuhiro Kimura, Toshikazu Suzuki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Chihiro Tokoku, Takashi Uchiyama, Kazuaki Kuroda
  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, 2015, 073F01, 2015

• Performance test of pipe-shaped radiation shields for cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave detectors

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, Nobuhiro Kimura, Tomotada Akutsu, Toshikazu Suzuki and Kazuaki Kuroda
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 32, 155011 (2015)

• Concepts and research for future detectors

  • F.Acernese et al.,
  • General Relativity and Gravitation, 46:1700 (2014)

• Excavation of an underground site for a km-scale laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector

  • T Uchiyama, K Furuta, M Ohashi, S Miyoki, O Miyakawa and Y Saito
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 31, 224005 (2014)

• Update on the development of cryogenic sapphire mirrors and their seismic attenuation system for KAGRA

  • Eiichi Hirose, Takanori Sekiguchi, Rahul Kumar, Ryutaro Takahashi (for the KAGRA collaboration)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 31, 224004 (2014)

• Progress on the cryogenic system for the KAGRA cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave telescope

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, Tomotada Akutsu, Dan Chen, Aleksandr Khalaidovski, Nobuhiro Kimura, Shigeaki Koike, Tatsuya Kume, Kazuaki Kuroda, Toshikazu Suzuki, Chihiro Tokoku
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 31, 224003 (2014)

• Vibration measurement in the KAGRA cryostat

  • D Chen, L Naticchioni, A Khalaidovski, K Yamamoto, E Majorana, Y Sakakibara, C Tokoku, T Suzuki, N Kimura, S Koike, T Uchiyama and S Kawamura
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 31, 224001 (2014)

• Cryogenic system for the interferometric cryogenic gravitationalwave telescope, KAGRA - design, fabrication, and performance test -

  • C. Tokoku, N. Kimura, S. Koike, T. Kume, Y. Sakakibara, T. Suzuki, K. Yamamoto, D. Chen. S. Goto, M. Tanaka, S. Ioka, K. Nakamoto, H. Nezuka, T. Uchiyama, M. Ohashi, K. Kuroda
  • AIP Conference Proceedings 1573, 1254 (2014)

• A study of cooling time reduction of interferometric cryogenic gravitational wave detectors using a high-emissivity coating

  • Y. Sakakibara, N. Kimura, T. Suzuki, K. Yamamoto, D. Chen, S. Koike, C. Tokoku, T. Uchiyama, M. Ohashi, and K. Kuroda
  • AIP Conference Proceedings 1573, 1176 (2014)

• Method to reduce excess noise of a detuned cavity for application in KAGRA

  • Shinichiro Ueda, Nana Saito, Daniel Friedrich, Yoichi Aso, Kentaro Somiya (for the KAGRA collaboration)
  • Class. Quantum Grav. 31, 095003 (2014)

• Mechanical loss of a multilayer tantala/silica coating on a sapphire disk at cryogenic temperatures: Toward the KAGRA gravitational wave detector

  • Eiichi Hirose, Kieran Craig, Hideki Ishitsuka, Iain W. Martin, Norikatsu Mio, Shigenori Moriwaki, Peter G. Murray, Masatake Ohashi, Sheila Rowan, Yusuke Sakakibara, Toshikazu Suzuki, Kouichi Waseda, Kyohei Watanabe, and Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Phys. Rev. D 90, 102004 (2014)

• Sapphire mirror for the KAGRA gravitational wave detector

  • Eiichi Hirose, Dan Bajuk, GariLynn Billingsley, Takaaki Kajita, Bob Kestner, Norikatsu Mio, Masatake Ohashi, Bill Reichman, Hiroaki Yamamoto, and Liyuan Zhang

  • Phys. Rev. D 89, 062003 (2014)

• Evaluation of heat extraction through sapphire fibers for the GW observatory KAGRA

  • A Khalaidovski, G Hofmann, D Chen, J Komma, C Schwarz, C Tokoku, N Kimura, T Suzuki, A O Scheie, E Majorana, R Nawrodt and K Yamamoto
  • Class. Quantum Grav. 31, 105004 (2014)

• Interferometer design of the KAGRA gravitational wave detector

  • Yoichi Aso, Yuta Michimura, Kentaro Somiya, Masaki Ando, Osamu Miyakawa, Takanori Sekiguchi, Daisuke Tatsumi, Hiroaki Yamamoto
  • Phys. Rev. D 88, 043007 (2013)

• Underground gravitational wave observatories: KAGRA and ET

  • Michele Punturo and Kentaro Somiya, Int. J. Mod. Phys., 22, 1330010 (2013)

• Real Time Control for KAGRA 3km Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Detector in Japan

  • O. Miyakawa and KAGRA Collaboration, Proceedings of ICALEPCS2013, 23 (2013)

• Calculation of thermal radiation input via funneling through a duct shield with baffles for KAGRA

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, Nobuhiro Kimura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Toshikazu Suzuki, Takayuki Tomaru, Shinji Miyoki, Takashi Uchiyama, Kazuaki Kuroda, Class. Quantum Grav. 29, 205019 (2012)

• Detector configuration of KAGRA - the Japanese cryogenic gravitational-wave detector

  • Kentaro Somiya for the KAGRA Collaboration, Class.Quantum Grav. 29, 124007 (2012)

• Length sensing and control strategies for the LCGT interferometer

  • Yoichi Aso, Kentaro Somiya, Osamu Miyakawa for the LCGT Collaboration, Class.Quantum Grav. 29, 124008 (2012)
• Reflectance of metals, which are used for a heat radiation shield of LCGT, at cryogenic temperature for 10um wave length
  • Y.Sakakibara, K.Kuroda, M.Ohashi, R.Takahashi, S.Miyoki, T.Uchiyama, Y.Saito, T.Suzuki, A.Yamamoto, T.Haruyama, N.Kimura, N.Mio, S,Moriwaki, N.Ohmae, M.Musha, Journal of Cryogenic and Superconductivity Society of Japan, 46, pp434-440 (2011)
• Quest for Direct Detection of Gravitational waves and Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational wave Telescope (LCGT) project
  • S. Miyoki and LCGT Collaboration, Vacuum Society of Japan, 54, pp.587-595 (2011)
• Laser source for KAGRA gravitational wave Telescope
  • Nobuaki Ohmae and Norikatsu Mio, Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, Vol.54, No.12,pp.604-609, (2011)
• Vibration Isolation System for KAGRA gravitational wave Telescope
  • Ryutaro Takahashi, Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, Vol.54, No.12, pp.610-613 (2011)
• Manufacturing of vacuum ducts that have 3-km length and 80 cm diameter for KAGRA gravitational wave Telescope
  • Yoshi Saito, Ryutaro Takahashi, Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, Vol.54, No.12, pp.621-626 (2011)
• Optical Design and Control for the KAGRA Gravitational Wave Telescope
  • Yoich Aso, and The LCGT Collaboration, Journal of the Vacuum Society of Japan, Vol.54, No.12, pp.597-603 (2011)

• Status of LCGT

  • K. Kuroda (on behalf of the LCGT Collaboration), Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 084004 (2010)

• Present status of large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave telescope

  • T. Uchiyama et al., Classical and Quantum Gravity 21, S1161 (2004)

• LARGE-SCALE CRYOGENIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE TELESCOPE

  • K. Kuroda et al., Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 08, 557 (1999)

PhD Thesis

• Low-Vibration Conductive Cooling of KAGRA Cryogenic Mirror Suspension

  • Tomohiro Yamada, University of Tokyo (2021)

• Optical and thermal study of molecular thin layers on cryogenic mirrors in next-generation gravitational wave telescopes

  • Kunihiko Hasegawa, University of Tokyo (2020)

• Interferometer Locking Scheme for Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors and Beyond

  • Yutaro Enomoto, University of Tokyo (2020)

• A Study of Baseline Compensation System for Stable Operation of Gravitational-wave Telescopes

  • Kouseki Miyo, University of Tokyo (2020)

• 重力波データ解析への Hilbert-Huang 変換の応用: ノイズに対する統計的性能評価および連星ブラックホール合体重力波の解析

  • 酒井一樹, 長岡技術科学大学 (2018)

• Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Correlation Analysis of Laser Interferometer

  • Hirotaka Yuzurihara, Osaka City Unversity (2017)

• Non-Gaussian noise and data analysis of laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors

  • Takahiro Yamamoto, Osaka City Unversity (2016)

• A Study of Low Frequency Vibration Isolation System for Large Scale Gravitational Wave Detectors

  • Takanori Sekiguchi, University of Tokyo (2015)

• Study of a cryogenic suspension system for the gravitational wave telescope KAGRA

  • Dan Chen, University of Tokyo (2015)

• A Study of Cryogenic Techniques for Gravitational Wave Detection

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, University of Tokyo (2015)

• Laser System for Second-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detector

  • Noriaki Ohmae, University of Tokyo (2011)

• Study of pendulum thermal noise in gravitational wave detectors

  • Kazuhiro Agatsuma, University of Tokyo (2010)

Master Thesis

• [[https://gwdoc.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=12440|重力波望遠鏡KAGRAにおける

極低温鏡懸架システムの角度調整機構の開発]]

• Takumi Nishimoto, University of Tokyo (2020)

• Hilbert-Huang変換を用いた重力崩壊型超新星爆発由来の重力波データ解析

  • Mei Takeda, Niigata University (2020)

• 重力波望遠鏡KAGRAにおける環境雑音評価手法の開発

  • Taiki Tanaka, University of Tokyo (2020)

• 重力波望遠鏡KAGRAのためのDetuned RSE達成に向けた干渉計制御用変調システムの開発

  • Kohei Yamamoto, University of Tokyo (2019)

• Development of KAGRA Photon Calibrator for Hardware Injection Test

  • Yu-Kuang Chu, National Taiwan Normal University (2018)

• Development and characterization of KAGRA Photon Calibrator for the accurate calibration of gravitational wave signals

  • Bin-Hua Hsieh, University of Tokyo (2018)

• KAGRA 用Transmission Monitor System の開発

  • Tatsuhiko Morozumi, University of Tokyo (2018)

• 大型低温重力波望遠鏡KAGRAにおける極低温鏡懸架システムとその伝導冷却に関する研究

  • Tomohiro Yamada, University of Tokyo (2018)

• KAGRA 重力波検出器防振系における クラックリングノイズの研究

  • Shin Kirii, University of Tokyo (2018)

• 重力波検出器KAGRAの時刻同期系の評価

  • Tsuyoshi Kaji, Osaka City University (2018)

• 重力波検出器KAGRAのための量子雑音低減法の開発

  • Koji Nagano, University of Tokyo (2017)

• 干渉計型重力波検出器における光学機械相互作用と光の空間モードの揺らぎについて

  • Yutaro Enomoto, University of Tokyo (2017)

• ブラックホールリングダウンからの重力波における高調波を含めた解析

  • Sho Atsuta, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017)

• 非線形光学効果を用いた次世代重力波検出器の要素技術開発

  • Yuu Kataoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017)

• KAGRA 用アウトプットモードクリーナーのデザイン研究およびプロトタイプ制御実験

  • Kazushiro Yano, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016)

• 重力波望遠鏡における光ばねと非線形結晶を用いた信号増幅器のデザインとその検証

  • Junpei Kato, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015)

• 重力波検出器KAGRA の感度向上に向けたアウトプットモードクリーナーの開発

  • Ayaka Kumeta, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015)

• 干渉計型重力波検出器における感度向上のための要素技術開発

  • Shinichiro Ueda, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014)

• 非線形光学素子を用いた重力波信号の増幅

  • Nana Saito, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014)

• A Study of Thermal Radiation Shields for Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Detectors

  • Yusuke Sakakibara, University of Tokyo (2012)

• Modeling and Simulation of Vibration Isolation System for Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope (LCGT)

  • Takanori Sekiguchi, University of Tokyo (2012)

Graduation Thesis

• iKAGRAのロックロス診断

  • Yuki Miyazaki, University of Tokyo (2017)

• 重力波検出器KAGRAに用いるインプットモードクリーナーにおけるWave Front Sensing

  • Nariyasu Sugawara, Niigata University (2017)

• 重力波検出器KAGRAにおけるWave Front Sensingのシミュレーション

  • Nozomi Kagawa, Niigata University (2017)

• 重力波検出器KAGRAの出力モードクリーナの姿勢制御

  • Junko Kasuya, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016)

• 非線形光学結晶挿入型重力波検出器の応答と不安定性

  • Takuya Yaginuma, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016)

• 神岡におけるシューマン共振の測定

  • Sho Atsuta, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015)

• 重力波検出器で使う制御用回路の検査機構の開発とその応用

  • Yuu Kataoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015)

• 神岡における環境雑音の測定および非線形光学素子を用いた信号増幅

  • Kazushiro Yano, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2014)

Other links

• List of PhD theses from Ando/Tsubono Group at UTokyo

• List of Master theses from Ando/Tsubono Group at UTokyo

• List of Scientific journal, Master and Ph.D. theses from ICRR at UTokyo

• List of Scientific journal, Master and Ph.D. theses from ICRR at UTokyo (Japanese)

• UTokyo Repository for theses

• List of theses from Somiya Group at Titech

• List of theses from Kanda Group at OCU