Comparative Study of Bacterial Populations in the Feces of Pasture-kept and Stabled Horses and Ponies

Poster Session

Development of a Multifunctional Lightweight Membrane with a High Specific Power Generation Capacity

As a lighter power generation system, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Sakase Adtech Corp. are developing a demonstrator component named “Harvesting Energy with Lightweight Integrated Origami Structure” (HELIOS), which is a deployable lightweight membrane structure. HELIOS has solar arrays on its surface and demonstrates the technology which enables higher specific power generation capacity compared to the conventional solar array panels. The membrane also has communication antennas, showing the potency of lightweight membrane’s multifunctionality such as large data transmitting by 5G antennas and high-resolution observation by interferometer antennas. This paper presents the component’s concept and design, and the expected achievements

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna; DECIGO

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to open a new window of observation for gravitational wave astronomy especially between 0.1 Hz and 10 Hz, revealing various mysteries of the universe such as dark energy, formation mechanism of supermassive black holes, and inflation of the universe. The pre-conceptual design of DECIGO consists of three drag-free spacecraft, whose relative displacements are measured by a differential Fabry– Perot Michelson interferometer. We plan to launch two missions, DECIGO pathfinder and pre- DECIGO first and finally DECIGO in 2024

DECIGO pathfinder

DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to provide us fruitful insights into the universe, in particular about dark energy, a formation mechanism of supermassive black holes, and the inflation of the universe. Since DECIGO will be an extremely large mission which will formed by three drag-free spacecraft with 1000m separation, it is significant to gain the technical feasibility of DECIGO before its planned launch in 2024. Thus, we are planning to launch two milestone missions: DPF and pre-DECIGO. The conceptual design and current status of the first milestone mission, DPF, are reviewed in this article

The status of DECIGO

DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) is the planned Japanese space gravitational wave antenna, aiming to detect gravitational waves from astrophysically and cosmologically significant sources mainly between 0.1 Hz and 10 Hz and thus to open a new window for gravitational wave astronomy and for the universe. DECIGO will consists of three drag-free spacecraft arranged in an equilateral triangle with 1000 km arm lengths whose relative displacements are measured by a differential Fabry-Perot interferometer, and four units of triangular Fabry-Perot interferometers are arranged on heliocentric orbit around the sun. DECIGO is vary ambitious mission, we plan to launch DECIGO in era of 2030s after precursor satellite mission, B-DECIGO. B-DECIGO is essentially smaller version of DECIGO: B-DECIGO consists of three spacecraft arranged in an triangle with 100 km arm lengths orbiting 2000 km above the surface of the earth. It is hoped that the launch date will be late 2020s for the present

Quantum Life Sciences in QST

Integration of state-of-the-art quantum techniques and advanced biology provide us not only a technical breakthrough for ultramicroscopic observation of living systems but also a change of our recognition of their operating principle. Particularly it is challenging to verify whether quantum effects play certain rolesin the dynamical expression of cellular function as well as expression of consciousness in our brain. To address these newly set research agendas, QST has launched a virtual lab composed ofresearchers having a diverse scientific background such as radiobiology and medicine, material sciences, optics, computer Simulation, and brain science.In the present poster, we briefly introduce our projects: 1) sub-cellular Sensing using nano-crystals as single photon sources; 2) structural analysis or imaging of biomaterials by Polarized or coherent light (X-rays) from accelerators, or quantum entanglement photons; 3) two-photon imaging using infrared laser for cancer tissue; 4) experimental and theoretical approaches for energy migration in biomolecules; and 5) future brain study. Most of the researchers are involved in two or more Projects in the lab, and play a role like a "node" in the "project network." By doing so,"coherentOscillations" can be propagated in the network and will Produce novelideas on quantum life science.第1回QST国際シンポジウム「量子生命科学　-Quantum Life Science-