Koji S. Kawabata

Employment

• Hiroshima University Director, Professor
  2017 - Present
• Hiroshima University Associate Professor
  2009 - 2017
• Hiroshima University Assistant Professor
  2004 - 2009
• Hiroshima University Assistant Professor
  2003 - 2004
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Postdoc Researcher
  1999 - 2003

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (176)

• SN 2023gfo: A Peculiar Type IIP Supernova with High Luminosity and Normal Plateau Duration
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae99e6
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• SN 2024dy: Dust Formation in a Long-lived Type IIn Supernova and Constraints on the Dust Mass
  Sota Goto, Masayuki Yamanaka, Koji S. Kawabata +10 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae80c9
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• Subluminous Type IIP SN 2024abfl as a Result of a Significantly Low-energy Fe-core Collapse
  Rishabh Singh Teja, Devendra Kumar Sahu, Gadiyara Chakrapani Anupama +7 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae75dd
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• Near-infrared [P ii] and [Fe ii] line mapping of Galactic supernova remnants
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2026 DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf135
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• Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0c95
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• Magnetic Field of a Ring-like Molecular Cloud
  The Astronomical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/adec9f
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• Interstellar Polarization Survey. V. Galactic Magnetic Field Tomography of the Spiral Arms Using Optical and Near-infrared Starlight Polarization
  The Astronomical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/addecc
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• Optical photon-counting observation of the Crab pulsar with the Kanata telescope using a prototype IMONY
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2025 DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf009
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• SN 2021foa: the bridge between SN IIn and Ibn
  Anjasha Gangopadhyay, Naveen Dukiya, Takashi J. Moriya +26 more
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf187
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• Unravelling the Asphericities in the Explosion and Multifaceted Circumstellar Matter of SN 2023ixf
  Avinash Singh, Rishabh Singh Teja, Takashi J. Moriya +33 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7955
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• Interstellar Polarization Survey. IV. Characterizing the Magnetic Field Strength and Turbulent Dispersion Using Optical Starlight Polarization in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
  The Astronomical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad4b14
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• Magnetic Fields in the Southern Coalsack and Beyond
  The Astronomical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad2e08
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• Intermediate-luminosity Type IIP SN 2021gmj: a low-energy explosion with signatures of circumstellar material
  Yuta Murai, Masaomi Tanaka, Miho Kawabata

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  • Kenta Taguchi
  • Rishabh Singh Teja
  • Tatsuya Nakaoka
  • Keiichi Maeda
  • Koji S. Kawabata
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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2024 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae170
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• Tomographic Imaging of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm's Magnetic Field Structure
  The Astrophysical Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0fe2
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• Gamma rays from a reverse shock with turbulent magnetic fields in GRB 180720B
  Nature Astronomy 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41550-023-02119-1
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• Bridging between Type IIb and Ib Supernovae: SN IIb 2022crv with a Very Thin Hydrogen Envelope
  Anjasha Gangopadhyay, Keiichi Maeda, Avinash Singh +26 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acfa94
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• SN 2018gj: A Short Plateau Type II Supernova with Persistent Blueshifted Ha Emission
  Rishabh Singh Teja, Avinash Singh, Devendra Kumar Sahu +7 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acdf5e
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• Interstellar Polarization Survey. III. Relation between Optical Polarization and Reddening in the General Interstellar Medium
  The Astronomical Journal 2023 DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/acdc1e
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• Spectral Type and Geometric Albedo of (98943) 2001 CC21, the Hayabusa2# Mission Target
  2023 DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slad073
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• Multicolor and multi-spot observations of Starlink’s Visorsat
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2023 DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psad021
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