Masafumi Imai, Ph.D.

Projects:

• AV ČR, prémie Lumina quaeruntur , Radio emissions from Jupiter, 2025-2029, investigator (IAP): Imai Masafumi

Publications:

• Fischer, G., Taubenschuss, U., Píša, D., Imai, M., Kurth, W. S., 2025: Spectral Structures of Jovian Broadband Kilometric Radiation Revealed by Cassini and Juno, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 130, 1, e2024JA032826
• Imai, M., Imai, K., Tsuji, M., Tokumitsu, M., Wakabayashi, M., 2024: Hands-on Manufacturing Education: Radio Reception Experiment from KOSEN CubeSat Using Cardboard Yagi Antenna, Journal of JSEE, 72, 5, 117-122
• Kolmašová, I., Santolík, O., Imai, M., Kurth, W. S., Hospodarsky, G. B., Connerney, J. E. P., Bolton, S.J., Lán, R., 2023: Lightning at Jupiter pulsates with a similar rhythm as in-cloud lightning at Earth, Nature Communications, 14, 2707
• Menietti, J. D., Averkamp, T. F., Kurth, W. S., Imai, M., Faden, J. B., Hospodarsky, G. B., Santolík, Ondřej, Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Elliott, S.S., Sulaiman, A. H., Bolton, S.J., 2021: Analysis of Whistler-Mode and Z-Mode Emission in the Juno Primary Mission, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, 11, e2021JA029885
• Imai, M., Wong, M. H., Kolmašová, Ivana, Brown, S. T., Santolík, Ondřej, Kurth, W. S., Hospodarsky, G. B., Bolton, S.J., Levin, S. M., 2020: High-Spatiotemporal Resolution Observations of Jupiter Lightning-Induced Radio Pulses Associated With Sferics and Thunderstorms, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088397
• Imai, M., Kolmašová, Ivana, Kurth, W. S., Santolík, Ondřej, Hospodarsky, G. B., Gurnett, D. A., Brown, S. T., Bolton, S.J., Connerney, J. E. P., Levin, S. M., 2019: Evidence for low density holes in Jupiter’s ionosphere, Nature Communications, 10, 2751
• Brown, S., Janssen, M., Adumitroaie, V., Atreya, S., Bolton, S., Gulkis, S., Ingersoll, A., Levin, S., Li, Ch., Li, L., Lunine, J., Misra, S., Orton, G., Steffes, P., Tabataba-Vakili, F., Kolmašová, Ivana, Imai, M., Santolík, Ondřej, Kurth, W., Hospodarsky, G., Gurnett, D., Connerney, J., 2018: Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles, Nature, 558, 87, 87-90
• Kolmašová, Ivana, Imai, M., Santolík, Ondřej, Kurth, W. S., Hospodarsky, G. B., Gurnett, D. A., Connerney, J. E. P., Bolton, S.J., 2018: Discovery of rapid whistlers close to Jupiter implying lightning rates similar to those on Earth, Nature Astronomy, 2, 7, 544-548
• Imai, M., Santolík, Ondřej, Brown, S. T., Kolmašová, Ivana, Kurth, W. S., Janssen, M. A., Hospodarsky, G. B., Gurnett, D. A., Bolton, S.J., Levin, S. M., 2018: Jupiter lightning-induced whistler and sferic eventswith Waves and MWR during Juno perijoves, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 15, 7268-7276