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

  • Variables in Globular Cluster NGC 5024 
    Safonova, M; Stalin, C. S (IOP Publishing, 2011-12)
    We present the results of a commissioning campaign to observe Galactic globular clusters for the search of microlensing events. The central 10' × 10' region of the globular cluster NGC 5024 was monitored using the 2 m ...
  • Stars at the Tip of Peculiar Elephant Trunk-Like Clouds in IC 1848E: A Possible Third Mechanism of Triggered Star Formation 
    Chauhan, N; Ogura, K; Pandey, A. K; Samal, M. R; Bhatt, B. C (Astronomical Society of Japan, 2011-08)
    The H II region IC 1848 harbors a lot of intricate elephant trunk-like structures that look morphologically different from usual bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs). Of particular interest is a concentration of thin and long ...
  • The latest two GRB detected by Hete-2: GRB 051022 and GRB 051028 
    Castro-Tirado, A. J; McBreen, S; Jelínek, M; Pandey, S. B; Bremer, M; de Ugarte Postigo, A; Gorosabel, J; Guziy, S; Bihain, G; Caballero, J. A; Ferrero, P; de Jong, J; Misra, K; Sahu, D. K (American Institute of Physics, 2006-05)
    We present multiwavelength observations of the latest two GRB detected by Hete-2 in 2005. For GRB 051022, no optical/nIR afterglow has been detected, in spite of the strong gamma-ray emission and the reported X-ray afterglow ...
  • Type Ia Supernovae: Progenitors and Peculiarity 
    Nomoto, K; Tanaka, M; Kawabata, K. S; Sahu, D. K; Anupama, G. C (American Institute of Physics, 2007-08)
    Among the controversial issues on Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we discuss (1) the evolutionary paths of the progenitor systems to SNe Ia, especially, the thermal stability of hydrogen shell burning in accreting white dwarfs, ...
  • Exploring the variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53): new RR Lyrae and SX Phoenicis stars 
    Arellano Ferro, A; Figuera Jaimes, R; Giridhar, S; Bramich, D. M; Hernández Santisteban, J. V; Kuppuswamy, K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09)
    We report CCD V and I time series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53). The technique of difference image analysis has been used which enables photometric precisions better than 10 mmag for stars brighter than ...
  • Star Formation Activity in the Galactic H II Complex S255-S257 
    Ojha, D. K; Samal, M. R; Pandey, A. K; Bhatt, B. C; Ghosh, S. K; Sharma, S; Tamura, M; Mohan, V; Zinchenko, I (IOP Publishing, 2011-09-10)
    We present results on the star formation activity of an optically obscured region containing an embedded cluster (S255-IR) and molecular gas between two evolved H II regions, S255 and S257. We have studied the complex using ...
  • Rapid optical variability of TeV blazars 
    Gopal-Krishna; Goyal, A; Joshi, S; Karthick, C; Sagar, R; Wiita, P. J; Anupama, G. C; Sahu, D. K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09)
    In this first systematic attempt to characterize the intranight optical variability (INOV) of TeV-detected blazars, we have monitored a well-defined set of nine TeV blazars on total 26 nights during 2004–10. In this R- or ...
  • Mass of the black hole in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy H 0507+164 from reverberation mapping 
    Stalin, C. S; Jeyakumar, S; Coziol, R; Pawase, R. S; Thakur, S. S (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09)
    We present the results of our optical monitoring campaign of the X-ray source H 0507+164, a low-luminosity Seyfert 1.5 galaxy at a redshift z= 0.018. Spectroscopic observations were carried out during 22 nights in 2007, ...
  • Deep Impact, Stardust-NExT and the behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 1997 to 2010 
    Meech, K. J; Pittichova, J; Yang, B; Zenn, A; Belton, M. J. S; A’Hearn, M. F; Bagnulo, S; Bai, J; Barrera, L; Bauer, J. M; Bedient, J; Bhatt, B. C; Boehnhardt, H; Brosch, N; Buie, M; Candia, P; Chen, W; Chesley, S; Chiang, P; Choi, Y; Cochran, A; Duddy, S; Farnham, T. L; Fernández, Y; Gutiérrez, P; Hainaut, O. R; Hampton, D; Herrmann, K; Hsieh, H; Kadooka, M. A; Kaluna, H; Keane, J; Kim, M; Kleyna, J; Krisciunas, K; Lauer, T. R; Lara, L; Licandro, J; Lowry, S. C; McFadden, L. A; Moskovitz, N; Mueller, B. E. A; Polishook, D; Raja, N. S; Riesen, T; Sahu, D. K; Samarasinha, N. H; Sarid, G; Sekiguchi, T; Sonnett, S; Suntzeff, N; Taylor, B; Tozzi, G. P; Vasundhara, R; Vincent, J; Wasserman, L; Webster-Schultz, B; Zhao, H (Elsevier B.V., 2011-05)
    We present observational data for Comet 9P/Tempel 1 taken from 1997 through 2010 in an international collaboration in support of the Deep Impact and Stardust-NExT missions. The data were obtained to characterize the nucleus ...
  • CCD time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6981: variable star census and physical parameter estimates 
    Bramich, D. M; Figuera Jaimes, R; Giridhar, S; Arellano Ferro, A (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-05)
    We present the results from 10 nights of observations of the globular cluster NGC 6981 (M72) in the V, R and I Johnson wavebands. We employed the technique of difference image analysis to perform precision differential ...
  • Stardust-NExT, Deep Impact, and the accelerating spin of 9P/Tempel 1 
    Belton, M. J. S; Meech, K. J; Chesley, S; PittichovĆ, J; Carcich, B; Drahus, M; Harris, A; Gillam, S; Veverka, J; Mastrodemos, N; Owen, W; A’Hearn, M. F; Bagnulo, S; Bai, J; Barrera, L; Bastien, F; Bauer, J. M; Bedient, J; Bhatt, B. C; Boehnhardt, H; Brosch, N; Buie, M; Candia, P; Chen, W; Chiang, P; Choi, Y; Cochran, A; Crockett, C. J; Duddy, S; Farnham, T; Fernández, Y. R; Gutiérrez, P; Hainaut, O. R; Hampton, D; Herrmann, K. A; Hsieh, H; Kadooka, M. A; Kaluna, H; Keane, J; Kim, M; Klaasen, K; Kleyna, J; Krisciunas, K; Lara, L. M; Lauer, T. R; Li, J; Licandro, J; Lisse, C. M; Lowry, S. C; McFadden, L; Moskovitz, N; Mueller, B; Polishook, D; Raja, N. S; Riesen, T; Sahu, D. K; Samarasinha, N; Sarid, G; Sekiguchi, T; Sonnett, S; Suntzeff, N. B; Taylor, B. W; Thomas, P; Tozzi, G. P; Vasundhara, R; Vincent, J; Wasserman, L. H; Webster-Schultz, B; Yang, B; Zenn, T; Zhao, H (Elsevier B.V., 2011-05)
    The evolution of the spin rate of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 through two perihelion passages (in 2000 and 2005) is determined from 1922 Earth-based observations taken over a period of 13 year as part of a World-Wide observing ...
  • A tale of two GRB-SNe at a common redshift of z=0.54 
    Cano, Z; Bersier, D; Guidorzi, C; Margutti, R; Svensson, K. M; Kobayashi, S; Melandri, A; Wiersema, K; Pozanenko, A; van der Horst, A. J; Pooley, G. G; Fernandez-Soto, A; Castro-Tirado, A. J; de Ugarte Postigo, A; Im, M; Kamble, A. P; Sahu, D. K; Alonso-Lorite, J; Anupama, G. C; Bibby, J. L; Burgdorf, M. J; Clay, N; Curran, P. A; Fatkhullin, T. A; Fruchter, A. S; Garnavich, P; Gomboc, A; Gorosabel, J; Graham, J. F; Gurugubelli, U. K; Haislip, J; Huang, K; Huxor, A; Ibrahimov, M; Jeon, Y; Jeon, Y. B; Ivarsen, K; Kasen, D; Klunko, E; Kouveliotou, C; LaCluyze, A; Levan, A. J; Loznikov, V; Mazzali, P. A; Moskvitin, A. S; Mottram, C; Mundell, C. G; Nugent, P. E; Nysewander, M; O’Brien, P. T; Park, W. K; Peris, V; Pian, E; Reichart, D; Rhoads, J. E; Rol, E; Rumyantsev, V; Scowcroft, V; Shakhovskoy, D; Small, E; Smith, R. J; Sokolov, V. V; Starling, R. L. C; Steele, I; Strom, R. G; Tanvir, N. R; Tsapras, Y; Urata, Y; Vaduvescu, O; Volnova, A; Volvach, A; Wijers, R. A. M. J; Woosley, S. E; Young, D. R (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-05)
    We present ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope optical observations of the optical transients (OTs) of long-duration Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) 060729 and 090618, both at a redshift of z= 0.54. For GRB 060729, bumps are ...
  • Optical studies of SN 2009jf: a Type Ib supernova with an extremely slow decline and aspherical signature 
    Sahu, D. K; Gurugubelli, U. K; Anupama, G. C; Nomoto, K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-06)
    Optical UBVRI photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy of the Type Ib supernova SN 2009jf, during the period from ∼ −15 to +250 d, with respect to the B maximum are reported. The light curves are broad, with an extremely ...
  • A multiwavelength census of stellar contents in the young cluster NGC 1624 
    Jose, J; Pandey, A. K; Ogura, K; Ojha, D. K; Bhatt, B. C; Samal, M. R; Chauhan, N; Sahu, D. K; Rawat, P. S (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03)
    We present a comprehensive multiwavelength analysis of the young cluster NGC 1624 associated with the H ii region Sh2-212 using optical UBVRI photometry, optical spectroscopy and GMRT radio continuum mapping along with the ...
  • Origin of Lithium Enrichment in K Giants 
    Bharat Kumar, Y; Reddy, B. E; Lambert, D. L (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2011-03-20)
    In this Letter, we report on a low-resolution spectroscopic survey for Li-rich K giants among 2000 low-mass (M ≤ 3 M sun) giants spanning the luminosity range from below to above the luminosity of the clump. Fifteen new ...
  • Optical photometry and basic parameters of 10 unstudied open clusters 
    Subramaniam, A; Carraro, G; Janes, K. A (Blackwell Publishing, 2010-05)
    We present BVI CCD photometry of 10 northern open clusters, Berkeley43, Berkeley45, Berkeley47, NGC 6846, Berkeley49, Berkeley51, Berkeley89, Berkeley91, Tombaugh4 and Berkeley9, and estimate their fundamental parameters. ...
  • A multiwavelength study of star formation in the vicinity of galactic H II region Sh 2-100 
    Samal, M. R; Pandey, A. K; Ojha, D. K; Ghosh, S. K; Kulkarni, V. K; Kusakabe, N; Tamura, M; Bhatt, B. C; Thompson, M. A; Sagar, R (The American Astronomical Society, 2010-05)
    We present multiwavelength investigation of morphology, physical-environment, stellar contents, and star formation activity in the vicinity of star-forming region Sh 2-100. It is found that the Sh 2-100 region contains ...
  • SDSS J123813.73-033933.0: a cataclysmic variable evolved beyond the period minimum 
    Aviles, A; Zharikov, S; Tovmassian, G; Michel, R; Tapia, M; Roth, M; Neustroev, V; Zurita, C; Andreev, M; Sergeev, A; Pavlenko, E; Tsymbal, V; Anupama, G. C; Kamath, U. S; Sahu, D. K (Institute of Physics, 2010-03)
    We present infrared JHK photometry of the cataclysmic variable (CV) SDSS J123813.73 – 033933.0 and analyze it along with optical spectroscopy, demonstrating that the binary system is most probably comprised of a massive ...
  • CCD time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5053: RR Lyrae, Blue Stragglers and SX Phoenicis stars revisited 
    Arellano Ferro, A; Giridhar, S; Bramich, D. M (Blackwell Publishing, 2010-02)
    We report the results of CCD V, r and I time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5053. New times of maximum light are given for the eight known RR Lyrae stars in the field of our images, and their periods are ...
  • The CH fraction of carbon stars at high galactic latitudes 
    Goswami, A; Drisya, K; Shantikumar, N. S (Blackwell Publishing, 2010-02)
    CH stars form a distinct class of objects with characteristic properties like iron deficiency, enrichment of carbon and overabundance of heavy elements. These properties can provide strong observational constraints for the ...

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