| Budget Amount *help |
¥8,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,950,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The Milky Way contains our Solar system, but its spatial and kinematic structure remain to be investigated. We focus on pulsating variable stars, as a tracer of the galaxy, whose distances and ages can be accurately determined. We conducted survey observations for variable stars using IRSF telescope in South African Astronomical Observatory and Kiso Schmidt telescope in Kiso Observatory of the University of Tokyo. With the former we discovered Cepheid variables stars in the Galactic Center region for the first time, and the survey with the latter has been revealing hundreds of new variable stars in the northern Galactic disk. In addition, we also conducted spectroscopic observations of the variable stars we discovered, which give insights into the evolution of the Galaxy.
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