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List of Papers
Fumio Kitajima Last modified date:2023.11.27

Assistant Professor / Material Science of Solar Planets / Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences / Faculty of Sciences


Papers
1. Ryuji Okazaki, Bernard Marty, Henner Busemann, Ko Hashizume, Jamie D. Gilmour, Alex Meshik, Toru Yada, Fumio Kitajima, Michael W. Broadley, David Byrne, Evelyn Füri, My E. I. Riebe, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Akizumi Ishida, Patricia Clay, Sarah A. Crowther, Lydia Fawcett, Thomas Lawton, Olga Pravdivtseva, Yayoi N. Miura, Jisun Park, Ken-ichi Bajo,Yoshinori Takano, Keita Yamada, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Yohei Matsui, Mizuki Yamamoto, Kevin Righter, Saburo Sakai, Naoyoshi Iwata, Naoki Shirai, Shun Sekimoto, Makoto Inagaki, Mitsuru Ebihara, Reika Yokochi, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Keisuke Nagao, Jong Ik Lee, Akihiro Kano, Marc W. Caffee, Ryu Uemura, Tomoki Nakamura, Hiroshi Naraoka,Takaaki Noguchi, Hikaru Yabuta, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Shogo Tachibana, Hirotaka Sawada, Kanako Sakamoto, Masanao Abe, Masahiko Arakawa, Atsushi Fujii, Masahiko Hayakawa, Naoyuki Hirata, Naru Hirata, Rie Honda, Chikatoshi Honda, Satoshi Hosoda, Yu-ichi Iijima, Hitoshi Ikeda, Masateru Ishiguro, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Takahiro Iwata, Kosuke Kawahara, Shota Kikuchi, Kohei Kitazato, Koji Matsumoto, Moe Matsuoka, Tatsuhiro Michikami, Yuya Mimasu, Akira Miura, Tomokatsu Morota, Satoru Nakazawa, Noriyuki Namiki, Hirotomo Noda, Rina Noguchi, Naoko Ogawa, Kazunori Ogawa, Tatsuaki Okada, Chisato Okamoto, Go Ono, Masanobu Ozaki, Takanao Saiki, Naoya Sakatani, Hiroki Senshu, Yuri Shimaki, Kei Shirai, Seiji Sugita, Yuto Takei, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Satoshi Tanaka, Eri Tatsumi, Fuyuto Terui, Ryudo Tsukizaki, Koji Wada, Manabu Yamada, Tetsuya Yamada, Yukio Yamamoto, Hajime Yano, Yasuhiro Yokota, Keisuke Yoshihara, Makoto Yoshikawa, Kent Yoshikawa, Shizuho Furuya, Kentaro Hatakeda, Tasuku Hayashi, Yuya Hitomi, Kazuya Kumagai, Akiko Miyazaki, Aiko Nakato, Masahiro Nishimura, Hiromichi Soejima, Ayako Iwamae, Daiki Yamamoto, Kasumi Yogata, Miwa Yoshitake, Ryota Fukai, Tomohiro Usui, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Dante Lauretta, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Yuichi Tsuda, Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolution, Science, 379, eabo0431, 2023.02.
2. Ryuji Okazaki, Shinji Yamanouchi, Kazuhiko Shimada, Atsushi Baba, Fumio Kitajima, Toru Yada, Methods and tools for handling, transportation, weighing, and pelletization applied to the initial analysis of volatile components in the Hayabusa2 samples, Earth, Planets and Space, 74, 190, 2022.12.
3. Ryuji Okazaki, Yayoi N. Miura, Yoshinori Takano, Hirotaka Sawada, Kanako Sakamoto, Toru Yada, Keita Yamada, Shinsuke Kawagucci, Yohei Matsui, Ko Hashizume, Akizumi Ishida, Michael W. Broadley, Bernard Marty, David Byrne, Evelyn Füri, Alex Meshik, Olga Pravdivtseva, Henner Busemann, My E.I. Riebe, Jamie Gilmour, Jisun Park, Ken-ichi Bajo, Kevin Righter, Saburo Sakai, Shun Sekimoto, Fumio Kitajima, Sarah A. Crowther, Naoyoshi Iwata, Naoki Shirai, Mitsuru Ebihara, Reika Yokochi, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Keisuke Nagao, Jong Ik Lee, Patricia Clay, Akihiro Kano, Marc W. Caffee, Ryu Uemura, Makoto Inagaki, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Mizuki Yamamoto, Lydia Fawcett, Thomas Lawton, Tomoki Nakamura, Hiroshi Naraoka, Takaaki Noguchi, Hikaru Yabuta, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Yuichi Tsuda, Sei-ichiro Watanabe, Masanao Abe, Masahiko Arakawa, Atsushi Fujii, Masahiko Hayakawa, Naoyuki Hirata, Naru Hirata, Rie Honda, Chikatoshi Honda, Satoshi Hosoda, Yu-ichi Iijima, Hitoshi Ikeda, Masateru Ishiguro, Yoshiaki Ishihara, Takahiro Iwata, Kosuke Kawahara, Shota Kikuchi, Kohei Kitazato, Koji Matsumoto, Moe Matsuoka, Tatsuhiro Michikami, Yuya Mimasu, Akira Miura, Tomokatsu Morota, Satoru Nakazawa, Noriyuki Namiki, Hirotomo Noda, Rina Noguchi, Naoko Ogawa, Kazunori Ogawa, Tatsuaki Okada, Chisato Okamoto, Go Ono, Masanobu Ozaki, Takanao Saiki, Naoya Sakatani, Hiroki Senshu, Yuri Shimaki, Kei Shirai, Seiji Sugita, Yuto Takei, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Satoshi Tanaka, Eri Tatsumi, Fuyuto Terui, Ryudo Tsukizaki4, Koji Wada, Manabu Yamada, Tetsuya Yamada, Yukio Yamamoto, Hajime Yano, Yasuhiro Yokota, Keisuke Yoshihara, Makoto Yoshikawa, Kent Yoshikawa, Shizuho Furuya, Kentaro Hatakeda, Tasuku Hayashi, Yuya Hitomi, Kazuya Kumagai, Akiko Miyazaki, Aiko Nakato4, Masahiro Nishimura, Hiromichi Soejima, Ayako Iwamae, Daiki Yamamoto, Kasumi Yogata, Miwa Yoshitake, Ryota Fukai, Tomohiro Usui, Trevor Ireland, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Dante S. Lauretta, Shogo Tachibana, First asteroid gas sample delivered by the Hayabusa2 mission: A treasure box from Ryugu, Science Advances, 8, eabo7239, 2022.11.
4. Uesugi M., Ito M., Yabuta H., Naraoka M., Kitajima F., Takano Y., Mita H., Kebukawa Y., Nakato A., Karouji Y., Further characterizations of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples to understand their origin, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 10.1111/maps.13236, 54, 638-666, 2019.03.
5. Nakamuta, Y., Kitajima, F., Shimada, K., In situ observation, X-ray diffraction and Raman analyses of carbon minerals in ureilites: Origin and formation mechanisms of diamond in ureilties, Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, 111, 252-269, 2016.09.
6. Saki Yasuda, Tasuku Akagi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Fumio Kitajima, Kozo Takahashi, Carbon isotope ratios of organic matter in Bering Sea settling particles
Extremely high remineralization of organic carbon derived from diatoms, GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, 10.2343/geochemj.2.0411, 50, 3, 241-248, 2016.01, The carbon isotope ratios of organic carbon in settling particles collected in the highly-diatom-productive Bering Sea were determined. Wet decomposition was employed to oxidize relatively fresh organic matter. The amount of unoxidised organic carbon in the residue following wet decomposition was negligible. The δ13C of organic carbon in the settling particles showed a clear relationship against SiO2/CaCO3 ratio of settling particles: Approximately -26= and -19= at lower and higher SiO2/CaCO3 ratios, respectively. The δ 13C values were largely interpreted in terms of mixing of two major plankton sources. Both δ 13C and compositional data can be explained consistently only by assuming that more than 98% of diatomaceous organic matter decays and that organic matter derived from carbonate-shelled plankton may remain much less remineralized. A greater amount of diatom-derived organic matter is discovered to be trapped with the increase of SiO2/CaCO3 ratio of the settling particles. The ratio of organic carbon to inorganic carbon, known as the rain ratio, therefore, tends to increase proportionally with the SiO2/CaCO3 ratio under an extremely diatom-productive condition..
7. Naraoka, H., Aoki, D., Fukushima, K., Uesugi, M., Ito, M., Kitajima, F., Mita, H., Yabuta, H., Takano, Y., Yada, T., Ishibashi Y., Karouji, Y., Okada T., Abe M., ToF-SIMS analysis of carbonaceous particles in the sample catcher of the Hayabusa mission, Earth, Planets and Space, 67, 67, 2015.03.
8. Fumio Kitajima, Masayuki Uesugi, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Toru Yada, Hiroshi Naraoka, Masanao Abe, Akio Fujimura, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Tatsuaki Okada, A micro-Raman and infrared study of several Hayabusa category 3 (organic) particles, Earth Planets and Space, 67, 20, 2015.02.
9. Hikaru Yabuta, Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, David Kilcoyne, Scott A. Sandford, Fumio Kitajima, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada, Masanao Abe, X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopic study of Hayabusa Category 3 carbonaceous particles, Earth Planets and Space, 66, 156, 2014.12.
10. Motoo Ito, Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Yuzuru Karouji, Toru Yada, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Tastuaki Okada, Masanao Abe, H, C and N isotopic compositions of HAYABUSA Category 3 organic samples, Earth Planets and Space, 66, 102, 2014.08.
11. Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Mita, Ichiro Ohnishi, Yoko Kebukawa, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada, Masanao Abe, Sequential analysis of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples for the determination of their origin, Earth Planets and Space, 66, 102, 2014.08.
12. Naraoka H., Mita H., Hamase K., Mita M., Yabuta H., Saito K., Fukushima K., Kitajima F., Sandford S. A., Nakamura T., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Nagao K., Ebihara M., Yurimoto H., Tsuchiyama A., Abe M., Shirai K., Ueno M., Yada T., Ishibashi Y., Okada T., Fujimura A., Mukai T., Yoshikawa M., and Kawaguchi J., Preliminary organic compound analysis of microparticles returned from Asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission, Geochemical Journal, 46, 61-72, 2012.01.
13. Nagao K., Okazaki R., Nakamura T., Miura Y. N., Osawa T., Bajo K., Matsuda Sh., Ebihara M., Ireland T. R., Kitajima F., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Tsuchiyama A., Yurimoto H., Zolensky M. E., Uesugi M., Shirai N., Abe M., Yada T., Ishibashi Y., Fujimura A., Mukai T., Ueno M., Okada T., Yoshikawa M., and Kawaguchi J., Irradiation history of Itokawa regolith material deduced from noble gases in the Hayabusa samples, Science, 333, 1128-1131, 2011.08.
14. Tsuchiyama A., Uesugi M., Matsushima T., Michikami T., Kadono T., Nakamura T., Uesugi K., Nakano T., Sandford S. A., Noguchi R., Matsumoto T., Matsuno J., Nagano T., Imai Y., Takeuchi A., Suzuki Y., Ogami T., Katagiri J., Ebihara M. Ireland T. R., Kitajima F., Nagao K., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Yurimoto H., Zolensky M. E., Mukai T., Abe M., Yada T., Fujimura A., Yoshikawa M., and Kawaguchi J. , Three-dimensional structure of Hayabusa samples: Origin and evolution of Itokawa regolith, Science, 333, 1125-1128, 2011.08.
15. Yurimoto H., Abe K., Abe M., Ebihara M., Fujimura A., Hashiguchi M., Hashizume K., Ireland T. R., Itoh S., Katayama J., Kato Ch., Kawaguchi J., Kawasaki N., Fumio Kitajima, Kobayashi S., Meike T., Mukai T., Nagao K., Nakamura T., Hiroshi Naraoka, Oxygen isotopic compositions of asteroidal materials returned from Itokawa by the Hayabusa mission, Science, 333, 1116-1119, 2011.08.
16. Ebihara M., Sekimoto S., Shirai N., Hamajima Y., Yamamoto M., Kumagai K., Oura Y., Ireland T. R., Kitajima F., Nagao K., Nakamura T., Naraoka H., Noguchi T., Okazaki R., Tsuchiyama A., Uesugi M., Yurimoto H., Zolensky M. E., Abe M., Fujimura A., Mukai T., and Yada Y. , Neutron activation analysis of a particle returned from asteroid Itokawa, Science, 333, 1119-1121, 2011.08.
17. Seigo, Ooki, Kazuhiro Kato, Fumio Kitajima, Tasuku Akagi, Error analysis of the determination of carbon stable isotope ratios in lignin and cellulose from plant samples, Geochemical Journal, 255-261, Vol. 45, 255 - 261, 2011.05.
18. Kaneko M., Kitajima F., and Naraoka H., Stable hydrogen isotope measurement of archaeol ether-bound hydrocarbons, Organic Geochemistry, 42, 166-172, 2011.02.
19. Nakato A., Nakamura T., Kitajima F. and Noguchi T., Evaluation of dehydration mechanism during heating of hydrous asrteroids based on mineralogical and chemical analysis of naturally and experimentally heated CM chondrites, Earth Planets Space, Vol 60, 855-864, 2008.09.
20. S. Kiyokawa, T. Ito, M. Ikehara, and F. Kitajima, Middle Archean volcano-hydrothermal sequence: bacterial microfossil- bearing 3.2-Ga Dixon Island Formation, coastal Pilbara terrane, Australia, GSA Bulletin, Vol.118 3-22, 2006.01.
21. Geology of 3.2Ga Dixon Island Formation, Western Pilbara, Australia -Part 6-
-Characterization of carbonaceous matter in the black cherts-
F.Kitajima, S.Kiyokawa, T.Ito, and M.Ikehara.
22. Geology of 3.2Ga Dixon Island Formation, Western Pilbara, Australia -Part 5-
-Organic carbon content and carbon isotope of organic matter-
M.Ikehara, A.Katagami, T.Ito, S.Kiyokawa, and F.Kitajima.
23. Preliminary study of a subsurface biosphere based on spatial distribution and stable isotopic composition of organic matter in a seafloor hydrothermal system.
T.Yamanaka, H.Naraoka, Y.Suzuki, F.Kitajima, K.Nanba, Y.Takano, K.Kobayashi, and T.Horiuchi
Oceanography in Japan, Vol.14, 267-277..
24. F. Kitajima, Y. Kitajima, T. Nakamura, and K. Mase, A XAFS study of organic sulfur in carbonaceous chondrites., KEK Photon Factory, Activity Report, Part B, Users' Report, Vol.21, 14, 2004.09.
25. Kitajima F., Kitajima Y., Nakamura T., and Mase K., A XAFS study of carbonaceous macromolecular matter in carbonaceous chondrites., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68, 11, A767-A767, Vol.68, Spec. Suppl. A767, 2004.06.
26. Kitajima F., Fukayama K., Tanimoto M., Ichimura T., Nasu S., Tsumagari N., Muraoka R., and Murae T., Archaeal tetraether lipid as a new geothermometer., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 18, A220-A220, Vol. 67, Spec. Suppl. A220., 2003.09.
27. F. Kitajima, Y. Kitajima, T. Nakamura, and K. Mase, Characterization of carbonaceous matter in carbonaceous chondrites from the viewpoint of thiophenic absorption of Sulfur K-edge NEXAFS spectra., Meteorit. Planet. Sci., Vol. 38, Suppl. A114., 2003.07.
28. Kitajima F., Kitajima Y., Nakamura T., and Mase K., Characterization of carbonaceous matter in several coals and carbonaceous chondrites from the viewpoint of thiophenic absorption of sulfur K-edge NEXAFS spectra., PF Activity Report, Vol. 20 Pt B, 38, 2003.05.
29. Kitajima F., Mase K., Nakamura T., Kobayashi E., Isari K., and Kitajima Y., Carbon K-edge NEXAFS study of carbonaceous matter in the Allende (CV3) carbonaceous chondrite., PF Activity Report, Vol. 19, Pt B, 35, 2002.05.
30. Microbial ecology and their carbon-cycle in mineral particles from the viewpoint of 14C dating.
Fumio Kitajima F. and Hattori T.
Summaries of Researches Using AMS at Nagoya University (XIII)..
31. Kitajima F., Nakamura T., Takaoka N., and Murae T., Evaluating the thermal metamorphism of CM chondrites by using the pyrolytic behavior of the carbonaceous macromolecular matter., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00758-X, 66, 1, 163-172, Vol. 66, 163-172., 2002.01.
32. Murae T., Muraoka R., and Kitajima F., Examination of intact ether lipid components of thermoacidophile Sulfolobus sp. by ESI/TOF mass spectrometry., J. Mass Spectrom. Soc. Jpn., Vol. 49, 195-200., 2001.09.
33. Nakamura T., Kitajima F., and Takaoka N., Thermal effects on mineralogy, noble-gas composition, and carbonaceous material in CM chondrites., LPI Contribution., No. 997, 61-63., 2000.03.