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  • UV astronomy and stellar chromosphere 
    Kameswara Rao, N (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1995)
    "The abrupt termination of solar and stellar spectrum below A 2900 has been a great handicap to the advancement of our knowledge of the heavenly bodies ; because the ...
  • UV facilities for the investigation of the origin of life 
    de Castro, Ana I Gómez; Barstow, Martin A; Brosch, Noah; Coté, Patrick; France, Kevin; Heap, Sara; Hutchings, John; Koriski, S; Murthy, J; Neiner, Coralie; Roberge, Aki; Román-Duval, Julia; Rowe, Jason; Sachkov, Mikhail; Schkolnik, Evgenya; Shustov, Boris (Elsevier, 2021)
    This contribution summarizes the status and capabilities of current and future UV facilities for the investigation of the origin of life. The main operational project for UV astronomy is the Hubble Space Telescope with ...
  • UV imaging telescope for the Indian Multiwavelength Astronomy Satellite 
    Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1998-08)
    The UV Imaging Telescope is a part of the proposed Indian Multiwavelength Astronomy Satellite mission. The initiate for an astronomy mission has ben taken by several institution in India, after the successful demonstration ...
  • UV observations of globular clusters and nearby galaxies 
    Subramaniam, A (Astronomical Society of India, 2007-06)
    We propose to identify the hot stellar population of the galactic globular clusters (GCs) using the TAUVEX. These stars can be easily identified in the core of the GCs where the crowding due to the main-sequence stars get ...
  • UV photometry of spotted stars in the horizontal branch of the globular cluster NGC 2808 using AstroSat 
    Deepthi, S. Prabhu; Subramaniam, A; Snehalata Sahu (Indian Academy of Science, 2021-10)
    A recent study of hot (20,000 to 30,000 K) extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in globular clusters (GCs) has led to the discovery of their variability. It is suggested that this variability is driven by the projected ...
  • The UV spectrum of the WC 11 star CPD -56 deg 8032 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Giridhar, S; Nandy, K (The European Southern Observatory, 1990-08)
    UV observations of the WC 11 central star of the compact planetary nebula CPD -56 deg 8032 show that the continuum flux is variable. This variability appears to be caused by a change in the circumstellar extinction properties. ...
  • UV(IUE) spectra of hot post-AGB candidates 
    Gauba, G; Parthasarathy, M (The European Southern Observatory, 2003-09)
    Analysis of the low resolution UV(IUE) spectra (1150 to 3200 Å) of 15 hot post-AGB candidates is presented. The UV(IUE) spectra of 10 stars suggest partial obscuration of the hot stars due to circumstellar dust. The reddened ...
  • UVIT imaging of WLM: demographics of star-forming regions in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy 
    Mondal, Chayan; Subramaniam, A; George, K (IOP Publishing, 2018-09)
    We present a study of star-forming regions and their demographics in the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy WLM using Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) multiband observations in three filters, F148W, N245M, and N263M. We ...
  • A UVIT Look at Star Formation in Nearby Interacting/Merging Galaxies 
    Mousumi Das (Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Astronomical Union, 2023)
    The interactions and mergers of gas rich galaxies are known to produce star formation which often leads to nuclear activity as well. The star formation is ideally mapped using FUV and NUV emission, since UV traces star ...
  • UVIT observation of Milky Way satellite galaxy Reticulum II 
    Divakar, D. K; Sivarani, T; Doddamani, V. H (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    We present the UV photometry of one of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf (UFD) Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies, Reticulum II, using images acquired with the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard AstroSat. Reticulum II is ...
  • UVIT Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Point-source Catalog 
    Devaraj, A; Joseph, P; Stalin, C. S; Tandon, S. N; Ghosh, S. K (American Astronomical Society, 2023-04-01)
    Three fields in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud were observed by the UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat, between 2017 December 31 and 2018 January 1. The observations were carried out on a ...
  • UVIT observations of the star-forming ring in NGC 7252: Evidence of possible AGN feedback suppressing central star formation 
    George, K; Joseph, P; Mondal, Chayan; Devaraj, A; Subramaniam, A; Stalin, C. S; Cote, P; Ghosh, S. K; Hutchings, J. B; Mohan, Rekhesh; Postma, J; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Tandon, S. N (EDP Sciences, 2018-05)
    Context. Some post-merger galaxies are known to undergo a starburst phase that quickly depletes the gas reservoir and turns it into a red-sequence galaxy, though the details are still unclear. Aims. Here we explore the ...
  • UVIT observations of UV-Bright stars in four Galactic Globular Clusters 
    Kumar, R; Pradhan, A. C; Parthasarathy, M; Ojha, D. K; Mohapatra, A; Murthy, J (Cambridge University Press, 2019-05)
    We have performed photometric analysis of four Galactic globular clusters (GGCs): NGC 4147, NGC 4590, NGC 5053 and NGC 7492 using far-UV and near-UV filters of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat. ...
  • UVIT open cluster study. I. detection of a white dwarf companion to a blue straggler in M67: evidence of formation through mass transfer 
    Sindhu, N; Subramaniam, A; Jadhav, V. V; Chatterjee, Sourav; Geller, Aaron M; Knigge, Christian; Leigh, Nathan; Puzia, Thomas H; Shara, Michael; Simunovic, Mirko (IOP Publishing, 2019-09-01)
    The old open cluster M67, populated with blue straggler stars (BSSs), is a well-known test bed to study the BSS formation pathways. Here, we report the first direct detection of a white dwarf (WD) companion to a BSS in ...
  • UVIT Open Cluster Study. II. Detection of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarfs and Post – Mass Transfer Binaries in M67 
    Jadhav, Vikrant V; Sindhu, N; Subramaniam, A (IOP Publishing, 2019-11)
    A detailed study of the UV-bright stars in the old open star cluster M67 is presented based on the far-UV observations using the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope ( UVIT ) on ASTROSAT . The UV and UV – optical ...
  • UVIT study of UV bright stars in the globular cluster NGC 4147 
    Ranjan Kumar; Pradhan, A. C; Parthasarathy, M; Ojha, D. K; Mohapatra, Abhisek; Murthy, J; Cassisi, Santi (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    We present far ultraviolet (FUV) observations of globular cluster NGC 4147 using three FUV filters, BaF2 (F154W), sapphire (F169M), and silica (F172M) of Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board the AstroSat satellite. ...
  • UVIT view of Centaurus A: a detailed study on positive AGN feedback 
    Joseph, P; Sreekumar, P; Stalin, C. S; Paul, K. T; Mondal, Chayan; George, Koshy; Mathew, Blesson (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-10)
    Supermassive black holes at the centre of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) produce relativistic jets that can affect the star formation characteristics of the AGN hosts. Observations in the ultraviolet (UV) band can provide ...
  • UVIT view of NGC 5291: Ongoing star formation in tidal dwarf galaxies at ∼ 0.35 kpc resolution 
    Rakhi, R; Santhosh, Geethika; Joseph, Prajwel; George, Koshy; Subramanian, S; Kavila, Indulekha; Postma, J; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Cote, Patrick; Cortese, Luca; Ghosh, S. K; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, Shyam; Hutchings, John; Wesley, P. Samuel; Bharadwaj, Aditya; Niroula, Neeran (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2023-06)
    NGC 5291, an early-type galaxy surrounded by a giant H I ring, is believed to be formed from collision with another galaxy. Several star forming complexes and tidal dwarf galaxies are distributed along the collisional ...
  • UVIT view of ram-pressure stripping in action: Star formation in the stripped gas of the GASP jellyfish galaxy JO201 in Abell 85 
    George, K; Poggianti, B. M; Gullieuszik, M; Fasano, G; Bellhouse, C; Postma, J; Moretti, A; Jaffe, Y; Vulcani, B; Bettoni, D; Fritz, J; Cote, P; Ghosh, S. K; Hutchings, J. B; Mohan, Rekhesh; Sreekumar, P; Stalin, C. S; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018-09)
    Jellyfish are cluster galaxies that experience strong ram-pressure effects that strip their gas. Their Hα images reveal ionized gas tails up to 100 kpc, which could be hosting ongoing star formation. Here, we report the ...
  • UVIT-HST-Gaia-VISTA study of Kron 3 in the small magellanic cloud: a cluster with an extended red clump in ultraviolet 
    Nayak, P. K; Subramaniam, A; Subramanian, S; Sahu, S; Mondal, C; Cioni, Maria-Rosa L; Bell, Cameron P. M; Bandyopadhyay, A; Chung, Chul (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-06)
    We have demonstrated the advantage of combining multiwavelength observations, from the ultraviolet (UV) to near-infrared, to study Kron 3, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. We have estimated the radius ...

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