Nishida Prize

Makiko Nagasawa

・Commendation

Studies on the roles of energy dissipation processes and orbital resonances on the formation of diverse planetary systems

・A list of five major papers

Nagasawa, M., H. Tanaka, & S. Ida, Orbital Evolution of Asteroids during Depletion of the Solar Nebula, The Astronomical Journal, 119, 1480-1497,2000.

Nagasawa, M., D. N. C. Lin, & S. Ida, Eccentricity Evolution of Extrasolar multiple planetary Systems due to the depletion of Nascent Protostellar Disks, The Astrophysical Journal, 586, 1374-1393, 2003.

Nagasawa, M., D. N. C. Lin, & E. Thommes, Dynamical Shakeup of Planetary Systems. I. -Embryo’s Trapping and Induced Collisions by the Sweeping Secular Resonance and Embryo-Disk Tidal Interaction, The Astrophysical Journal, 635, p.578-598, 2005.

Nagasawa, M., S. Ida, & T. Bessho, Formation of hot planets by a combination of planet scattering, tidal circularization and Kozai mechanism, The Astrophysical Journal, 678, 498-508, 2008.

Nagasawa M., & S. Ida, Orbital distributions of close-in planets and distant planets formed by scattering and dynamical tides, The Astrophysical Journal, 742, 72, 16pp, 2011.

・Nominator

self-recommendation