Refereed Jounals

• "Early Phase Observations of Extremely Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2009dc"
  Yamanaka, M., Kawabata, K. S., Kinugasa, K., Tanaka, M., Imada, A., Maeda, K., Nomoto, K., Arai, A., Chiyonobu, S., Fukazawa, Y., Hashimoto, O., Honda, S., Ikejiri, Y., Itoh, R., Kamata, Y., Kawai, N., Komatsu, T., Konishi, K., Kuroda, D., Miyamoto, H., Miyazaki, S., Nagae, O., Nakaya, H., Ohsugi, T., Omodaka, T., Sakai, N., Sasada, M., Suzuki, M., Taguchi, H., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, H., Uemura, M., Yamashita, T., Yanagisawa, K., Yoshida, M (2009)
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 707, pp. L118-L122
• "Early Spectroscopy of the 2010 Outburst of U Scorpii"
  Yamanaka, M., Uemura, M., Kawabata, K. S., Fujii, M., Tanabe, K., Imamura, K., Komatsu, T., Arai, A., Sasada, M., Itoh, R., Harao, T., Kunitomi, N., Nagae, O., Nose, M., Ohsugi, T., Okushima, T., Sakimoto, K., Yoshida, M. (2010)
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 62, pp. L37-L41
• "Multi-Wavelength Photometric and Polarimetric Observations of the Outburst of 3C 454.3 in 2009 December"
  Sasada, Mahito; Uemura, Makoto; Fukazawa, Yasushi; Kawabata, Koji S.; Itoh, Ryosuke; Sakon, Itsuki; Fujisawa, Kenta; Kadota, Akiko; Ohsugi, Takashi; Yoshida, Michitoshi; Yasuda, Hajimu; Yamanaka, Masayuki; Sato, Shuji; Kino, Masaru (2012)
  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 64, Article No. 58 (8 pages)
• "GRB 091208B: First Detection of the Optical Polarization in Early Forward Shock Emission of a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow"
  Uehara, T.; Toma, K.; Kawabata, K. S.; Chiyonobu, S.; Fukazawa, Y.; Ikejiri, Y.; Inoue, T.; Itoh, R.; Komatsu, T.; Miyamoto, H.; Mizuno, T.; Nagae, O.; Nakaya, H.; Ohsugi, T.; Sakimoto, K.; Sasada, M.; Tanaka, H.; Uemura, M.; Yamanaka, M.; Yamashita, T.; Yamazaki, R.; Yoshida, M. (2012)
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 752, artile ID. L6 (5 pages)
• "Five-year optical and near-infrared observations of the extremely slow nova V1280 Scorpii"
  Naito, H.; Mizoguchi, S.; Arai, A.; Tajitsu, A.; Narusawa, S.; Yamanaka, M.; Fujii, M.; Iijima, T.; Kinugasa, K.; Kurita, M.; Nagayama, T.; Yamaoka, H.; Sadakane, K. (2012)
  Astronomy & Astrophysics, 543, id. A86 (16 pages)

Other Publications

• "Wide-field One-shot Optical Polarimeter: HOWPol"
  Koji S. Kawabata, Osamu Nagae, Shingo Chiyonobu, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hidehiko Nakaya, Mariko Suzuki, Yukiko Kamata, Satoshi Miyazaki, Kazuyoshi Hiragi, Hisashi Miyamoto, Masayuki Yamanaka, Akira Arai, Takuya Yamashita, Makoto Uemura, Takashi Ohsugi, Mizuki Isogai, Yoshiaki Ishitobi and Shuji Sato (2008)
  Proc. SPIE, 7014, 70144L [Draft PDF]
• "Wide-field One-shot Optical Polarimeter: HOWPol"
  K. S. Kawabata, O. Nagae, S. Chiyonobu, H. Tanaka, H. Miyamoto, H. Nakaya, M. Suzuki, Y. Kamata, S. Miyazaki, K. Hiragi, M. Yamanaka, A. Arai, T. Yamashita, M. Uemura, T. Ohsugi, M. Isogai, Y. Ishitobi, S. Sato (2011)
  Proc of `Astronomical Polarimetry 2008: Science from Small to Large Telescopes' held in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada (6-11 July 2008), ASP Conference Series, Vol. 449. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012., p.83
• "Rapidly-Responding Optical Polarimetry of GRB afterglows with Hiroshima 1.5-m Telescope and One-shot Wide-field Polarimeter"
  K. S. Kawabata, T. Uehara, M. Yamanaka, M. Sasada, Y. Ikejiri, R. Itoh, T. Komatsu, M. Uemura, O. Nagae, S. Chiyonobu, H. Tanaka, T. Ohsugi, Y. Fukazawa, T. Mizuno, H. Katagiri, H. Takahashi, H. Miyamoto, K. Sakimoto, K. Hiragi, M. Yoshida, R. Yamazaki, K. Toma, A. Arai, M. Isogai, H. Nakaya, Y. Kamata, S. Miyazaki, T. Yamashita, M. Suzuki, S. Sato (2010)
  in Deciphering the Ancient Universe with Gamma-ray Bursts, Ed. N. Kawai & S. Nagataki, AIP Conf. Proc. 1279, pp. 355-356
• "Kanata optical photometric and polarimetric observations of MAXI J1659-152"
  T. Komatsu, Uemura, M., Kawabata, K. S., Yamanaka, M., Sasada, M, Itoh, R., Okushima, T., Sato, H., Yamazaki, S., Yoshida, M. (2010)
  in The 1st year of MAXI: Monitoring variable X-ray sources, 4th International MAXI Workshop in Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan 30 Nov-2 Dec 2010
• "Prompt optical polarimetry of GRB afterglow"
  Kawabata, K. S., & Kanata/HOWPol GRB Observaton Team (2012)
  in "STELLAR POLARIMETRY: FROM BIRTH TO DEATH", AIP Conference Proceedings, 1429, pp.194-199

Domestic Proceedings and Papers

• "Development of body and mechatronics of one-shot imaging polarimeter HOWPol"
  S. Chiyonobu (2007), Master thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Development of auto-guider of KANATA telescope at its Nasmyth focus"
  K. Hiragi (2008), Bachelor thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Development of auto-guider of KANATA telescope at its Nasmyth focus"
  K. Hiragi (2008), Bachelor thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Development of HOWPol and its performance test"
  H. Tanaka (2009), Master thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Development of auto-guider of Kanata telescope"
  H. Sato (2011), Bachelor thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Evaluation of instrumental polarization of HOWPol"
  K. Takaki (2012), Bachelor thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]
• "Observational Study of Type IIb Supernova 2010gi"
  T. Okushima (2012), Master thesis (Hiroshima Univ.) [Japanese PDF]