Research Publications Based on data from Indian Astronomical Observatory: Recent submissions

  • Maeda, K; Nozawa, T; Sahu, D. K; Minowa, Y; Motohara, K; Ueno, I; Folatelli, G; Pyo, T. S; Kitagawa, Y; Kawabata, K. S; Anupama, G. C; Kozasa, T; Moriya, T. J; Yamanaka, M; Nomoto, K; Bersten, M; Quimby, R; Iye, M (IOP Publishing, 2013-10-10)
    Supernovae (SNe) have been proposed to be the main production sites of dust grains in the universe. However, our knowledge of their importance to dust production is limited by observationally poor constraints on the nature ...
  • Sahu, D. K; Anupama, G. C; Chakradhari, N. K (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013-07-21)
    Optical UBVRI photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy of the Type IIb supernova SN 2011dh in M51 are presented, covering the first year after the explosion. The light curve and spectral evolution are discussed. The early ...
  • Belu, A. R; Selsis, F; Raymond, S. N; Palle, E; Street, R; Sahu, D. K; Braun, K. V; Bolmont, E; Figueira, P; Anupama, G. C; Ribas, Ignasi (IOP Publishing, 2013-05-10)
    Given the very close proximity of their habitable zones, brown dwarfs (BDs) represent high-value targets in the search for nearby transiting habitable planets that may be suitable for follow-up occultation spectroscopy. ...
  • Sahu, D. K; Anupama, G. C; Anto, P (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013-04-01)
    We present optical UBVRI photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy of a transitional Type Ia supernova, SN 2009an, over the period −6 to +150 d from the B maximum. With a Δm15(B) = 1.514 ± 0.132, SN 2009an declines ...
  • Kumar, Brajesh; Pandey, S. B; Sahu, D. K; Vinko, J; Moskvitin, A. S; Anupama, G. C; Bhatt, V. K; Ordasi, A; Nagy, A; Sokolov, V. V; Sokolova, T. N; Komarova, V. N; Kumar, Brijesh; Bose, S; Roy, R; Sagar, R (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013-05-01)
    We present the low-resolution spectroscopic and UBVRI broad-band photometric investigations of the Type IIb supernova (SN) 2011fu, discovered in UGC 01626. The photometric follow-up of this event was initiated a few days ...
  • Sharma, S; Pandey, A. K; Pandey, J. C; Chauhan, N; Ogura, K; Ojha, D. K; Borrissova, J; Mito, H; Verdugo, T; Bhatt, B. C (Astronomical Society of Japan, 2012-10)
    We present a multiwavelength study of the NGC 281 complex which contains the young cluster IC 1590 at the center, using deep wide-field optical UBV Ic photometry, slitless spectroscopy along with archival data sets in ...
  • Resmi, L; Misra, K; Johannesson, G; Castro-Tirado, A. J; Gorosabel, J; Jelınek, M; Bhattacharya, D; Kubanek, P; Anupama, G. C; Sota, A; Sahu, D. K; de Ugarte Postigo, A; Pandey, S. B; Sanchez-Ramırez, R; Bremer, M; Sagar, R (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-11)
    The Swift era has posed a challenge to the standard blast-wave model of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows. The key observational features expected within the model are rarely observed, such as the achromatic steepening ...
  • Mallick, K. K; Ojha, D. K; Samal, M. R; Pandey, A. K; Bhatt, B. C; Ghosh, S. K; Dewangan, L. K; Tamura, M (IOP Publishing, 2012-11-01)
    We present a multiwavelength study of the Galactic H II region Sh2-297, located in the Canis Major OB1 complex. Optical spectroscopic observations are used to constrain the spectral type of ionizing star HD 53623 as B0V. ...
  • Rodríguez-Ledesma, M. V; Mundt, R; Ibrahimov, M; Messina, S; Parihar, P. S; Hessman, F. V; Alves de Oliveira, C; Herbst, W (EDP Sciences, 2012-08)
    Aims. We have investigated the nature of the variability of CHS 7797, an unusual periodic variable in the Orion Nebula Cluster. Methods. An extensive I-band photometric data set of CHS 7797 was compiled between 2004−2010 ...
  • Wade, G. A; Maiz, J. A; Martins, F; Petit, V; Grunhut, J; Walborn, N. R; Barba, R. H; Gagne, M; Garcia-Melendo, E; Jose, J; Moffat, A. F. J; Naze, Y; Neiner, C; Pellerin, A; Penades, O. M; Shultz, M; Simon-Diaz, S; Sota, A (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-09)
    This paper presents a first observational investigation of the faint Of?p star NGC 1624-2, yielding important new constraints on its spectral and physical characteristics, rotation, magnetic field strength, X-ray emission ...
  • Goyal, A; Gopal-Krishna; Wiita, P. J; Anupama, G. C; Sahu, D. K; Sagar, R; Joshi, S (EDP Sciences, 2012-08)
    Context. Rapid variations in optical flux are seen in many quasars and all blazars. The amount of variability in different classes of active galactic nuclei has been studied extensively but many questions remain unanswered. ...
  • Blesson, M; Banerjee, D. P. K; Subramaniam, A; Ashok, N. M (IOP Publishing, 2012-07-01)
    The possibility of the Lyβ fluorescence mechanism being operational in classical Be (CBe) stars and thereby contributing to the strength of the O I λ8446 line has been recognized for long. However, this supposition needs ...
  • Mousumi Das; Sengupta, C; Ramya, S; Misra, K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-07)
    We present Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope 1280-MHz radio continuum observations and follow-up optical studies of the disc and nuclear star formation in a sample of low-luminosity bulgeless galaxies. The main aim is to ...
  • Zheng, W; Shen, R. F; Sakamoto, T; Beardmore, A. P; De Pasquale, M; Wu, X. F; Gorosabel, J; Urata, Y; Sugita, S; Zhang, B; Pozanenko, A; Nissinen, M; Sahu, D. K; Im, M; Ukwatta, T. N; Andreev, M; Klunko, E; Volnova, A; Akerlof, C. W; Anto, P; Barthelmy, S. D; Breeveld, A; Carsenty, U; Castillo-Carrion, S; Castro-Tirado, A. J; Chester, M. M; Chuang, C. J; Cunniffe, R; De Ugarte Postigo, A; Duffard, R; Flewelling, H; Gehrels, N; Guver, T; Guziy, S; Hentunen, V. P; Huang, K. Y; Jelinek, M; Koch, T. S; Kubanek, P; Kuin, P; McKay, T. A; Mottola, S; Oates, S. R; O'Brien, P; Ohno, M; Page, M. J; Pandey, S. B; Perez del Pulgar, C; Rujopakarn, W; Rykoff, E; Salmi, T; Sanchez-Ramirez, R; Schaefer, B. E; Sergeev, A; Sonbas, E; Sota, A; Tello, J. C; Yamaoka, K; Yost, S. A; Yuan, F (IOP Publishing, 2012-06-01)
    We present a comprehensive analysis of a bright, long-duration (T /sub90/ ~ 257 s) GRB 110205A at redshift z = 2.22. The optical prompt emission was detected by Swift/UVOT, ROTSE-IIIb, and BOOTES telescopes when the gamma-ray ...
  • Golovin, A; Galvez-Ortiz, M. C; Hernan-Obispo, M; Andreev, M; Barnes, J. R; Montes, D; Pavlenko, E; Pandey, J. C; Martinez-Arnaiz, R; Medhi, B. J; Parihar, P. S; Henden, A; Sergeev, A; Zaitsev, S. V; Karpov, N (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-03)
    This paper is part of a multiwavelength study aimed at using complementary photometric, polarimetric and spectroscopic data to achieve an understanding of the activity process in late-type stars. Here, we present the ...
  • Hsieh, H. H; Yang, Bin; Haghighipour, N; Kaluna, H. M; Fitzsimmons, A; Denneau, L; Novakovic, B; Jedicke, R; Wainscoat, R. J; Armstrong, J. D; Duddy, S. R; Lowry, S. C; Trujillo, C. A; Micheli, M; Keane, J. V; Urban, L; Riesen, T; Meech, K. J; Abe, S; Cheng, Yu-Chi; Chen, Wen-Ping; Granvik, M; Grav, T; Ip, Wing-Huen; Kinoshita, D; Kleyna, J; Lacerda, P; Lister, T; Milani, A; Tholen, D. J; Vereš, P; Lisse, C. M; Kelley, M. S; Fernández, Y. R; Bhatt, B. C; Sahu, D. K; Kaiser, N; Chambers, K. C; Hodapp, K. W; Magnier, E. A; Price, P. A; Tonry, J. L (IOP Publishing, 2012-03-20)
    The main-belt asteroid (300163) 2006 VW139 (later designated P/2006 VW139) was discovered to exhibit comet-like activity by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey telescope using automated point-spread-function analyses performed ...
  • Mathew, B; Banerjee, D. P. K; Ashok, N. M; Subramaniam, A; Bhavya, B; Joshi, V (Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012-02)
    We present a study of the star 2MASS J22472238+5801214 with the aim of identifying its true nature which has hitherto been uncertain. This object, which is a member of the young cluster NGC 7380, has been variously proposed ...
  • Mathew, B; Subramaniam, A (Astronomical Society of India, 2011-12)
    We present a spectroscopic study of 150 Classical Be stars in 39 open clusters using medium resolution spectra in the wavelength range 3800 – 9000 A° . Onethird of the sample (48 stars in 18 clusters) has been studied ...
  • Arellano Ferro, A; Bramich, D. M; Figuera Jaimes, R; Giridhar, S; Kuppuswamy, K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-02)
    We report the discovery of amplitude and phase modulations typical of the Blazhko effect in 22 RRc and nine RRab type RR Lyrae stars in NGC 5024 (M53). This brings the confirmed Blazhko variables in this cluster to 23 RRc ...
  • Ramya, S; Prabhu, T. P; Mousumi Das (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-12)
    We present medium resolution optical spectroscopy of a sample of nine low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. For those that show clear signatures of active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission, we have disentangled the AGN ...

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