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This digital repository of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIAP), Bangalore, India is developed to capture, organize disseminate and preserve the research publications of IIAP. It also includes the in-house technical reports and annual reports in addition to various other grey literatures created within the institute.You can search, browse and access full text of these publications from the repository.

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  • The role of three William Herschel telescopes in colonial India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2025-09)
    In this paper we provide information on some of the telescopes to which one of the most prominent names in the history of astronomy is attached: Frederick William Herschel. He built telescopes of different apertures and ...
  • Chasing Mercury: Transit tales from India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2025-09)
    Planets passing across the disk of the Sun are among the most uncommon and fascinating phenomena in the Solar System. From the Earth, the transits of only Mercury and Venus can be seen. Early on, the transits of Venus were ...
  • Near ultraviolet transient explorer (nutex): a cubesat-based nuv imaging payload for transient sky surveys 
    Shubham Jankiram, Ghatul; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Safonova, M; Kumar, P; Gopinathan, Maheswar; Jain, Shubhangi; Mahesh Babu, S (Frontiers, 2025-12)
    The Near Ultraviolet Transient Explorer (NUTEx) is a CubeSat-based nearultraviolet (NUV) imaging payload designed for transient sky surveys and is currently under development. CubeSats are compact and cost-effective satellite ...
  • FIELDMAPS data release: Far-infrared polarization in the "bones" of the milky way 
    Coude, Simon; Stephens, Ian W; Myers, Philip C; Karnath, Nicole; Smith, Howard A; Guzman, Andres E; Marin, Jessy; Zucker, Catherine; Andersson, B-G; Li, Zhi-Yun; Looney, Leslie W; Novak, Giles; Pillai, Thushara G.S; Sadavoy, Sarah; Sanhueza, Patricio; Archana Soam (American Astronomical Society, 2026-01)
    Polarization observations of the Milky Way and many other spiral galaxies have found a close correspondence between the orientation of spiral arms and magnetic field lines on scales of hundreds of parsecs. This paper ...
  • The life and science of Thanu Padmanabhan (1957-2021) 
    Bagla, Jasjeet Singh; Bhattacharya, K; Chakraborty, Sumanta; Engineer, S; Faraoni, V; Kolekar, Sanved; Kothawala, D; Lochan, K; Modak, S; Nair, Parameswaran V; Paranjape, A; Parattu, K; Rajeev, S. G; Majhi, B. R; Choudhury, T. R; Sami, M; Sarkar, Sudipta; Sengupta, S; Seshadri, T. R; Shankaranarayanan, S; Singh, Surya Prakash; Singh, T. P; Sriramkumar, L; Yajnik, U. A (Springer Nature, 2026-01)
    Thanu Padmanabhan was a renowned Indian theoretical physicist known for his research in general relativity, cosmology, and quantum gravity. In an extraordinary career spanning forty-two years, he published more than three ...

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