agenda for the 7th DESTINY⁺ SWT meeting

 

Venue: The Tokyo Skytree Town® Campus of Chiba Tech (Room A) with an online component through Zoom (hybrid format)


Agenda on Monday, March 2, 2026:

13:00               Venue open


13:15–13:20    Opening remark, Logistics: T. Arai


13:20–14:20    Latest Project Status [Chair: M. Kobayashi]

  1. ■Overall and system development status: H. Imamura (ISAS/JAXA)

  2. ■Trajectory design of DESTINY⁺: Toward Phaethon and multiple asteroids: N. Ozaki (ISAS/JAXA)

  3. ■Science mission and science team-activity status: T. Arai (PERC/Chiba Tech)


14:20–14:40    Coffee Break


14:40–16:00    Activity Reports from Dust SWG [Chair: H. Kimura]

  1. ■Update on DDA development and status: H. Strack (Univ. of Stuttgart)

  2. ■Operational structure and test planning: M. Kobayashi (PERC/Chiba Tech)

  3. ■Update on DDA calibration and future plans: M. Trieloff (Univ. of Heidelberg)*

  4. ■Nozomi dust measurements between Earth and Mars - A template for DDA?: H. Krüger (MPS & PERC/Chiba Tech)*


16:00–16:20    Coffee Break


16:20–16:40    Invited Talk [Chair: T. Okamoto]

  1. ■Modeling and verification of hypervelocity impact ionization using the P4P code: J. Nakazawa (Sokendai)


16:40–17:00    DESTINY⁺ Science Center (DPSC) [Chair: T. Okamoto]

  1. ■Dust database and the DPSC website: M. Kobayashi, H. Kimura (PERC/Chiba Tech)


17:30–19:30    Dinner [optional]


Agenda on Tuesday, March 3, 2026:

10:20               Venue open


10:30–11:30    Activity Reports from Phaethon SWG [Chair: K. Wada]

  1. ■TCAP & MCAP development status: K. Ishibashi (PERC/Chiba Tech)

  2. ■Camera science status: T. Morota (Univ. of Tokyo)

  3. ■Simulated data on Phaethon: T. Morota (Univ. of Tokyo)


11:30–13:00    Lunch Break


13:00–14:20    Science Proposal [Chair: T. Morota]

  1. ■Collisional origin and structural evolution of asteroids: implications on the structural properties and activity of Phaethon and other asteroids to be visited by DESTINY⁺: P. Michel (Côte d’Azur Observatory, CNRS)

  2. ■SPHEREx near-infrared observation of DESTINY⁺ mission target, (3200) Phaethon - Preliminary report: Y. P. Bach (KASI)

  3. ■Thermal-disruption experiments in support of DESTINY⁺: M. Granvik (Univ. of Helsinki & Luleå Univ. of Tech.)*

  4. ■Testing Pallas as a potential parent body of Phaethon with interior thermal modeling: W. Neumann (TU Berlin)*


14:20–14:40    Coffee Break


14:40–15:00    Special Talk [Chair: K. Ishibashi]

  1. ■Strong solar radiation effects on the physical properties of CM-type asteroid simulants via laboratory work: J. Geem (Luleå Univ. of Tech.)*


15:00–15:40    Activity Reports from Ground Observation SWG [Chair: K. Ishibashi]

  1. ■Launch of the DESTINY⁺ Ground Observation Science Working Group: F. Yoshida (UOEH, PERC/Chiba Tech)

  2. ■JWST observations for the orbital determination of 2024 YR4: A. Rivkin (Johns Hopkins Univ.)*


15:40–16:00    Coffee Break


16:00–17:00    Activity Reports from Ground Observation SWG – continued [Chair: F. Yoshida]

  1. ■Photometric observations of (3200) Phaethon and (154276) 2002 SY50 in the past year: P. Pravec (Astron. Inst. AS CR)*

  2. ■Spectral characterization of Phaethon based on observations from 2023-2025: S. Ieva (INAF - OAR)*

  3. ■Discussion on ground-based observation plans


17:00–17:30    Discussion etc. [Chair: T. Arai]

  1. ■Discussion on future topics

  2. ■Future SWT meetings

  3. ■Concluding remarks


N.B.

  1. ★All dates and times are in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9).

  2. ★All talks are ca 20 min including 5 min Q&A.

  3. ★Online speakers are marked with an asterisk (*).

  4. ★The time slots of presentations are subject to change without notice.