IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Helium Enhancement in the Metal-rich Red Giants of ω Centauri 
    Hema, B. P; Pandey, G; Kurucz, R. L; Prieto, C. A (IOP Publishing, 2020-07-01)
    The helium-enriched (He-enriched) metal-rich red giants of ω Centauri, discovered by Hema & Pandey using the low-resolution spectra from the Vainu Bappu Telescope, and confirmed by the analyses of the high-resolution spectra ...
  • Creating a large aspheric primary mirror using spherical segments 
    Jacob, A; Parihar, P; James, Melvin.K (Springer, 2020-08)
    The use of aspheric mirrors is a common practice to design astronomical telescopes with a few optical elements. In the most preferred optical design Ritchey Chretien (RC), both primary and secondary mirrors are hyperboloid. ...
  • An attempt of identification of barium hydride molecular lines in sunspot umbral spectra 
    Karthikeyan, B; Shanmugapriya, G; Rajamanickam, N; Bagare, S. P (Elsevier B.V, 2020-07)
    A high-resolution sunspot umbra spectrum recorded in National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak in the visible and infrared wave number range 13, 600 – 25, 000cm−1 was taken in the present study for identifying the rotational ...
  • Discovery of ubiquitous lithium production in low-mass stars 
    Bharat Kumar, Y; Reddy, B. E; Campbell, S. W; Maben, Sunayana; Zhao, G; Ting, Yuan-Sen (Springer Nature, 2020-11)
    The vast majority of stars with mass similar to that of the Sun are expected to destroy lithium (Li) gradually over the course of their lives, via low-temperature nuclear burning. This has now been supported by observations ...
  • Probing Transit Timing Variation and Its Possible Origin with 12 New Transits of TrES-3b 
    Mannaday, V. K; Thakur, P; Jiang, I; Sahu, D. K; Joshi, Y. C; Pandey, A. K; Joshi, S; Yadav, R. K; Su, Li-Hsin; Sariya, D. P; Yeh, Li-Chin; Griv, Evgeny; Mkrtichian, D; Shlyapnikov, A; Moskvin, V; Ignatov, V; Vanko, M; Puskullu, C (IOP Publishing, 2020-07)
    We present 12 new transit light curves of the hot-Jupiter TrES-3b observed during 2012−2018 to probe the transit timing variation (TTV). By combining the midtransit times determined from these 12 transit data with ...
  • Detection of CH+, CH and H2 Molecules in the Young Planetary Nebula IC 4997 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Lambert, D. L; Reddy, A. B. S; Manchado, A; Diaz-Luis, J. J; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A (IOP Publishing, 2020-07-01)
    We have detected CH+ and CH molecular absorption lines from the youngcompact planetary nebula IC 4997 from high resolution optical spectra. A high-resolution infra-red (H and K bands) spectrum provides detection of H2 ...
  • Modeling the Survival of Population III Stars to the Present Day 
    Dutta, Jayanta; Sur, Sharanya; Stacy, Athena; Bagla, Jasjeet Singh (IOP Publishing, 2020-09-20)
    Recent numerical simulations have suggested the probability of a fraction of the primordial stars being ejected from the cluster of their origin. We explore the possibility that some of these can remain on the main sequence ...
  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release 
    Lyke, Brad W; Higley, Alexandra N; McLane, J. N; Schurhammer, D. P; Myers, A. D; Ross, A. J; Dawson, K; Chabanier, S; Martini, P; Busca, N. G; Mas des Bourboux, Helion du; Salvato, Mara; Streblyanska, A; Zarrouk, P; Burtin, E; Anderson, S. F; Bautista, J; Bizyaev, D; Brandt, W. N; Brinkmann, J; Brownstein, J. R; Comparat, J; Green, Paul; de la Macorra, Axel; Munoz Gutierrez, Andrea; Hou, Jiamin; Newman, J. A; Palanque-Delabrouille, N; Paris, I; Percival, W. J; Petitjean, P; Rich, J; Rossi, G; Schneider, D. P; Smith, Alexander; Vivek, M; Weaver, Benjamin A (IOP Publishing, 2020-09)
    We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically ...
  • Effects of dark matter in red giants 
    Clea, Sunny; Sivaram, C; Gudennavar, S. B (Elsevier B. V., 2020-12)
    Dark matter (DM) which constitutes five-sixths of all matter is hypothesized to be a weakly interacting non-baryonic particle, created in the early stages of cosmic evolution. It can affect various cosmic structures in the ...
  • Atmospheric opacity using 220 GHz (1.36 mm) radiometer data and water vapor trends over Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), Hanle 
    Shantikumar, N. S; Sethulakshmy, E. S; Jade, S; Shrungeshwara, T. S; Vivek, C. G; Angchuk, D; Prabhu, T. P; Mahay, T. T (Elsevier B.V., 2020-10-15)
    The present work reports atmospheric opacity at 220 GHz over Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO)-Hanle during 2006 to 2018. The opacity data were derived from the radiometric measurement of sky-brightness temperature as ...
  • Scatter due to Ultraviolet (UV) photopolymerization of molecular contamination on optical surfaces 
    Venkata Suresh, Narra; Prasad, B. R; Somasundaram, P. K; Sriraman, K; Venkatasubramanian, N; Padavu, U. K; Mani, V. T; Basavaraja, S; Naik, R (Springer, 2020-12)
    Molecular contamination on optical surfaces is a serious issue for space payloads. For ultraviolet (UV) payloads, molecular contamination results in loss of throughput. Whereas, for visible (VIS) payloads loss of throughput ...
  • Long-term Evolution of the Sun's Magnetic Field during Cycles 15-19 Based on Their Proxies from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory 
    Mordvinov, A. V; Binay Karak, B; Banerjee, D; Chatterjee, S; Golubeva, E. M; Khlystova, A. I (IOP Publishing, 2020-10-10)
    The regular observation of the solar magnetic field is available only for about the last five cycles. Thus, to understand the origin of the variation of the solar magnetic field, it is essential to reconstruct the magnetic ...
  • The Completed SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Lyα Forests 
    du Mas des Bourboux, H; Rich, J; Font-Ribera, A; de Sainte Agathe, V; Farr, J; Etourneau, T; Le Goff, J.-M; Cuceu, Andrei; Balland, C; Bautista, J. E; Blomqvist, M; Brinkmann, J; Brownstein, J. R; Chabanier, S; Chaussidon, E; Dawson, K; Gonzalez-Morales, A. X; Guy, J; Lyke, B. W; de la Macorra, A; Mueller, E.-M; Myers, A. D; Nitschelm, C; Gutierrez, A. M; Palanque-Delabrouille, N; Parker, J; Percival, W. J; Perez-Rafols, I; Petitjean, P; Pieri, M. M; Ravoux, R; Rossi, R; Schneider, D. P; Seo, H.-J; Slosar, A; Stermer, J; Vivek, M; Yeche, C; Youles, S (IOP Publishing, 2020-10-01)
    We present a measurement of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) from Lyα absorption and quasars at an effective redshift z = 2.33 using the complete extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). The 16th ...
  • International conference on Non-accelerator particle physics : proceedings of the international conference held at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, January 2-9, 1994 
    Cowsik, R (editor) (World Scientific Publishing, 1995)
    This international conference focussed on several exciting frontier areas of particle physics at energy scales not realizable in terrestrial accelerators and their significance in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. ...
  • Basic plasma processes on the sun : proceedings of the 142th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Bangalore, India, December 1-5, 1989 
    Priest, E. R (editor); Krishan, V (editor) (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990)
    Much of the excitement in modern Solar Physics has come from the realisation that the Sun is a plasma and that this plasma is interacting with the magnetic field in a wide variety of subtle ways. As well as being of great ...
  • Modern astronomy : startling facts 
    Sivaram, C; Arun, K (Ane Books, 2009)
    The year 2009 is being recognised as the international year of astronomy (IYA) to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the historical occasion in the year 1609 when Galileo Galilei used the then newly invented telescope ...
  • Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan : his life and work 
    Mallik, D. C. V; Chatterjee, S (Universities Press (India), 2012)
    The first four decades of the 20th century were glorious years for science, especially physics. Our view of the physical world changed forever with the emergence of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s formulation of the theory ...
  • Polarimetry: from the sun to stars and stellar environments 
    Nagendra, K. N (editor); Bagnulo, S (editor); Centeno, R (editor); Martinez Gonzalez, M. J (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
    The advances in solar, planetary, and extrasolar science employing polarimetric tools are far-reaching, and the pace of discovery is accelerating rapidly. In the last three decades, the emphasis of solar polarimetry has ...
  • Introduction to astrobiology 
    Sivaram, C; Sastry, A (Universities Press (India), 2004)
    Astrobiology is the science that seeks to unravel the mysteries of the orign of life and the conditions that would support the birth and evolution of life forms. It involves several disciplines of science which are essential ...
  • Long-term datasets for the understanding of solar and stellar magnetic cycles 
    Banerjee, D (editor); Jiang, J (editor); Kusano, K (editor); Solanki, S (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

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