Tomonori Totani


Tomonori Totani is a Japanese astronomer, professor at University of Tokyo. He is a director of FastSound Project at Subaru Telescope, Hawaii. He specializes in cosmology, galaxy formation, and high-energy astrophysics.
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Early life and career

Born in Nagoya, Aichi on November 17, 1971. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, under the supervision of Katsuhiki Sato.
After working at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Princeton University, he became an assistant professor at Kyoto University in 2003 and an associate professor in 2007.
In 2013, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Tokyo.
His most recent work has been on the origin of life. His earlier esearch topics have included "Research topics include dark matter, dark energy, galaxy formation and evolution, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, active galactic nuclei, and cosmic rays"

Publications

His most cited publications are:
  • Totani T. Cosmological fast radio bursts from binary neutron star mergers. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 2013 Oct 25;65:L12.
  • Totani T, Kawai N, Kosugi G, Aoki K, Yamada T, Iye M, Ohta K, Hattori T. Implications for cosmic reionization from the optical afterglow spectrum of the gamma-ray burst 050904 at z= 6.3. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 2006 Jun 25;58:485-9
  • Ota K, Iye M, Kashikawa N, Shimasaku K, Kobayashi M, Totani T, Nagashima M, Morokuma T, Furusawa H, Hattori T, Matsuda Y. Reionization and galaxy evolution probed by z= 7 Lyα emitters. Astrophysical journal. 2008 Apr 10;677:1
  • Totani T. Cosmological gamma-ray bursts and evolution of galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 1997 Sep 10;486:L71
  • Totani T, Morokuma T, Oda T, Doi M, Yasuda N. Delay time distribution measurement of Type Ia supernovae by the Subaru/XMM-Newton deep survey and implications for the progenitor. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 2008 Dec 25;60:1327-46.