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  • Indications of twist in the Epsilon rings of Uranus 
    Vasundhara, R; Bhattacharyya, J. C (Centre national D Etudes Spatiales, 1982)
    The possibility of the Uranus epsilon ring having a structure consisting of a twisted bundle of narrow lanes of condensed material similar to that of Saturn's F ring was examined by cross correlation of a pair of light ...
  • Investigations of the Morphology of Dust Shells of Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) 
    Vasundhara, R; Chakraborty, P; Muneer, S; Masi, G; Rondi, S (The American Astronomical Society, 2007-02)
    The morphology of the dust fans and shells in the images of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) showed significant changes between 2004 April and June due to rapid changes in the Earth viewing and solar illumination geometry. We model ...
  • Investigations of the pre-deep impact morphology of the dust coma of comet tempel 1 
    Vasundhara, R (Elsevier, 2009-11)
    The pre-Deep Impact images of Comet Tempel-1 obtained at the Indian Astronomical Observatory are used to investigate the morphology of the dust coma of the comet. We show that the trajectory of a cometary grain under the ...
  • Investigations of the Rotation Pole from the Morphology of Dust Fans of Comet 81P/Wild 2 
    Vasundhara, R; Chakraborty, P (The American Astronomical Society, 2004-12)
    Investigations of the dust morphology of comet 81P/Wild 2 in the I- and R-band images obtained on 1997 May 15 from the Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur, India, are presented. We model the trajectories of dust grains ejected ...
  • Modeling Dust Jets And Shells From Comet Hale-Bopp 
    Vasundhara, R; Chakraborty, P; Hänel, A; Heiser, E (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997-07)
    Persistent jet and shell structures from comet Hale-Bopp showing gradual changes in the shapes and orientations with aspect angle and solar illumination geometry indicate long lived active sources. A model to simulate the ...
  • Modeling of Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1): Observations from the Vainu Bappu Observatory 
    Vasundhara, R; Chakraborty, P (Academic Press, 1999-07)
    Jet and shell structures from Comet Hale-Bopp during the period October 1996 to October 1997 using data from the Vainu Bappu Observatory are modeled. Evolution of jet and shell structures during the period of observations ...
  • Modeling Uranian mutual event light curves 
    Vasundhara, R (Elsevier, 2008-11)
    Salient features of the analysis of the mutual event light curves of planetary satellites are presented. The need to carefully evaluate the flux contribution of the occulting/eclipsing satellite to the total flux is ...
  • Mutual phenomena of Jovian satellites 
    Vasundhara, R (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1991-03)
    Mutual eclipses of Galilean satellites were observed and the results are given. The observations are fitted by utilizing Lambert's law, theoretical models assuming a uniform disk, and Lommel-Seeliger's law which describes ...
  • Mutual phenomena of Jovian satellites in 1990-1991 
    Vasundhara, R (Astronomical Society of India, 1990-03)
  • Mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites: an analysis of the 1991 observations from VBO 
    Vasundhara, R (European Southern Observatory, 1994-01)
    Results of analysis of seventeen mutual events, of the Galilean satellites, observed at the Vainu Bappu Observatory (VBO) during the 1991 are presented. The light curves were fitted with theoretical models to derive the ...
  • New constants for SampsonLieske theory of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter from mutual occultation data 
    Vasundhara, R; Arlot, J. E; Descamps, P (International Astronomical Union, 1996)
    New constants for sampson-Lieske theory of the Galilean satellites have been derived using 6360 individual photographic positions (1891-1990) and 438 pseudo astrometric positions from mutual occulations during 1973,1979,1985 ...
  • Observations of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 from Japal-Rangapur Observatory 
    Vasundhara, R; Chakraborty, P; Rajamohan, R; Bhattacharyya, J. C; Som Sunder, G; Vivekananda Rao, P; Swaminathan, R; Lokanandham, B (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1995-02)
  • Observations of occulation of HIP 66446 by (423) Diotima on 2001 March 15 from India - Detection of a companion to the star 
    Vasundhara, R; Jayakumar, K; Velu, C; Appakutty, M; Paranjpye, A; Kulkarni, H; Nitsure, P; Prabhunne, M; Shah, K (Astronomical Society of India, 2001)
    Observations of the occulation of the star HIP 66446 by (423) Diotima on 2001 March 15 made by the team at the Vainu Bappu Observatory and three mobile teams at Ganeshgudi, Londa and the CES Field Research Station at Sirsi ...
  • Occultation of 2UCAC 42376428 by (423) Diotima on 2005 March 06 
    Vasundhara, R; Kuppuswamy, K; Ramamoorthy, S; Velu, C; Venkataramana, A. K (Astronomical Society of India, 2006-03)
    Observations of the occultation of the star 2UCAC 42376428 by (423) Diotima on 2005 March 06 at the Vainu Bappu Observatory are reported. The observed mid time of the event at 15:12:25.1 UT occurred 3.4 s later than the ...
  • Occultations by possible material in Saturn's outer magnetosphere 
    Vasundhara, R (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1988-03)
    Results are presented of a search in the SAO catalogue for occultations of stars by Saturn's magnetosphere occurring during 1988. The instantaneous apparent position of the star, angle of inclination of the ring plane to ...
  • Occultations by possible material in Saturn's outer magnetosphere. II 
    Vasundhara, R (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1989-03)
    Results of a search for occultations of stars in the SAO catalog by Saturn's outer magnetosphere during 1989-1990 are presented. A total of nine events are predicted to occur during this period. The most favorable event ...
  • An Optical, Dual-Beam, Automated Medium Resolution Spectropolarimeter for the Vainu Bappu Telescope 
    Chakraborty, P; Vasundhara, R (Springer, 2003-03)
    Fabrication of an optical dual-beam spectropolarimeter as an add-on facility to an existing astronomical spectrograph at the Vainu Bappu Telescope is described. The polarimetric optics consists of a superachromatic ...
  • Outer rings of Saturn 
    Bhattacharyya, J. C; Vasundhara, R (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1985)
    A two component model of a possible ring structure at about 12.5 Saturn radii is presented here which can explain the shapes of the immersion and emersion occultation profiles obtained during the occultation of SAO 158913 ...
  • Personal computer based star changing device and occultation data acquisition system 
    Srinivasan, R; Naidu, B. N; Vasundhara, R (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, 1993-01)
    This paper describes a personal computer interface card developed for occultation studies with the 1 m telescope at VBO Kavalur. The new feature of this system is the application of a personal computer for the accurate ...
  • The PHEMU03 catalogue of observations of the mutual phenomena of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter 
    Arlot, J. E; Thuillot, W; Ruatti, C; Ahmad, A; Amosse, A; Anbazhagan, P; Andreyev, M; Antov, A; Appakutty, M; Aubry, S; Asher, D; Spampinato, S. A; Stellmacher, I; Trunkovsky, E; Tejfel, V; Tudose, V; Turcu, V; Ugarte, I; Vantyghem, P; Vasundhara, R; Vaubaillon, J; Baron, N; Velu, C; Venkataramana, A. K; Vidal Sãinz, J; Vienne, A; Vilar, J; Vingerhoets, P; Vollman, W; Bassiere, N; Berthe, M; Bogdanovski, R; Bosq, F; Bredner, E; Buettner, D; Buromsky, M; Cammarata, S; Casas, R; Chis, G. D; Christou, A. A; Coquerel, J. P; Corlan, R; Cremaschini, C; Crussaire, D; Cuypers, J; Dennefeld, M; Descamps, P; Devyatkin, A; Dimitrov, D; Dorokhova, T. N; Dorokhov, N. I; Dourneau, G; Dueñas, M; Dumitrescu, A; Emelianov, N; Ferrara, D; Fiel, D; Fienga, A; Flatres, T; Foglia, S; Garlitz, J; Gerbos, J; Gilbert, R; Goncalves, R. M. D; Gonzales, D; Gorda, S. Y; Gorshanov, D. L; Hansen, M. W; Harrington, M; Irsmambetova, T. R; Ito, Y; Ivanova, V; Izmailov, I. S; Khovritchev, M. Y; Khrutskaya, E. V; Kieken, J; Kiseleva, T. P; Kuppuswamy, K; Lainey, V; Lavayssiere, M; Lazzarotti, P; Le Campion, J. F; Lellouch, E; Li, Z. L; Lo Savio, E; Lou, M; Magny, E; Manek, J; Marinello, W; Marino, G; McAuliffe, J. P; Michelli, M; Moldovan, D; Montagnac, S; Moorthy, V; Nickel, O; Nier, J. M; Noel, T; Noyelles, B; Oksanen, A; Parrat, D; Pauwels, T; Priban, V; Ramachandran, B; Rambaux, N; Rapaport, M; Rapavy, P; Rau, G; Sacre, J. J; Sada, P. V; Salvaggio, F; Sarlin, P; Sciuto, C; Selvakumar, G; Sergeyev, A; Sidorov, M; Sorescu, S (EDP Sciences, 2009-01)
    Context: In 2003, the Sun and the Earth passed through both the equatorial plane of Jupiter and therefore the orbital planes of its main satellites. Aims: During this period, mutual eclipses and occultations were observed ...

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