Kaori Hirata - Personal Profiles
Kaori Hirata
International Visiting Expert![](/image/journal/article?img_id=14513319&t=1699610830738&fileName=Profile_202203 (1).jpg)
Main Research Fields
I'm a visiting researcher at ESAC and a PhD student from the University of Tokyo (Japan), interested in the origin and nature of planetary building blocks. My research focuses on the elemental compositions on the surface of Mercury.
- Surface elemental composition of terrestrial planets
- Remote sensing data analysis / Methodology development
Keywords
- Elemental composition
- X-ray spectroscopy
- Gamma-ray and neutron spectroscopy
- Mercury
- BepiColombo
- Martian moons/Phobos
Ongoing collaborations
- Sebastien Besse (ESAC/ESA, Spain)
- Tomohiro Usui (ISAS/JAXA, Japan: PhD Supervisor)
Publications
K. Hirata., T. Morota., S. Sugita., C. M. Ernst., & T. Usui. (2022) Magma eruption ages and fluxes in the Rembrandt and Caloris interior plains on Mercury: Implications for the north-south smooth plains asymmetry. Icarus, 382, 115034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115034.
Project/mission at ESA
Further information
Personal webpage | Google Scholar | Research Gate | SPACE Research Group (ISAS/JAXA)