IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • The role of three William Herschel telescopes in colonial India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2025-09)
    In this paper we provide information on some of the telescopes to which one of the most prominent names in the history of astronomy is attached: Frederick William Herschel. He built telescopes of different apertures and ...
  • Chasing Mercury: Transit tales from India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2025-09)
    Planets passing across the disk of the Sun are among the most uncommon and fascinating phenomena in the Solar System. From the Earth, the transits of only Mercury and Venus can be seen. Early on, the transits of Venus were ...
  • Near ultraviolet transient explorer (nutex): a cubesat-based nuv imaging payload for transient sky surveys 
    Shubham Jankiram, Ghatul; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Safonova, M; Kumar, P; Gopinathan, Maheswar; Jain, Shubhangi; Mahesh Babu, S (Frontiers, 2025-12)
    The Near Ultraviolet Transient Explorer (NUTEx) is a CubeSat-based nearultraviolet (NUV) imaging payload designed for transient sky surveys and is currently under development. CubeSats are compact and cost-effective satellite ...
  • FIELDMAPS data release: Far-infrared polarization in the "bones" of the milky way 
    Coude, Simon; Stephens, Ian W; Myers, Philip C; Karnath, Nicole; Smith, Howard A; Guzman, Andres E; Marin, Jessy; Zucker, Catherine; Andersson, B-G; Li, Zhi-Yun; Looney, Leslie W; Novak, Giles; Pillai, Thushara G.S; Sadavoy, Sarah; Sanhueza, Patricio; Archana Soam (American Astronomical Society, 2026-01)
    Polarization observations of the Milky Way and many other spiral galaxies have found a close correspondence between the orientation of spiral arms and magnetic field lines on scales of hundreds of parsecs. This paper ...
  • The life and science of Thanu Padmanabhan (1957-2021) 
    Bagla, Jasjeet Singh; Bhattacharya, K; Chakraborty, Sumanta; Engineer, S; Faraoni, V; Kolekar, Sanved; Kothawala, D; Lochan, K; Modak, S; Nair, Parameswaran V; Paranjape, A; Parattu, K; Rajeev, S. G; Majhi, B. R; Choudhury, T. R; Sami, M; Sarkar, Sudipta; Sengupta, S; Seshadri, T. R; Shankaranarayanan, S; Singh, Surya Prakash; Singh, T. P; Sriramkumar, L; Yajnik, U. A (Springer Nature, 2026-01)
    Thanu Padmanabhan was a renowned Indian theoretical physicist known for his research in general relativity, cosmology, and quantum gravity. In an extraordinary career spanning forty-two years, he published more than three ...
  • Clues on the X-ray emission mechanism of blazars PKS 2155−304 and 3C 454.3 through polarization studies 
    Bharathan, Athira M; Stalin, C. S; Sahayanathan, S; Mathew, B (Elsevier B.V, 2026-02)
    X-ray polarization measurable with the imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) could constrain the long debated leptonic versus hadronic origin for the high energy component in the broad band spectral energy distribution ...
  • Modelling the scattering by porous aggregate dust grains in the far-ultraviolet halos of spica and achernar 
    Choudhury, Nilanjana Dey; Shalima, P; Keerthana, U; Murthy, J (Elsevier B.V, 2026-02)
    Far-Ultraviolet (FUV) halos have been detected around six bright stars by Murthy and Henry (2011) using GALEX observations. These halos are thought to be caused by forward scattering of the starlight by dust grains present ...
  • Magnetic fields in the close neighbourhood of LDN 328 core 
    Gupta, Shivani; Archana Soam; Karoly, Janik; Lee, Chang Won (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    Linearly polarized dust emission traces the plane-of-sky magnetic field structure, thus allowing us to investigate the role of magnetic fields in the formation and evolution of cloud cores. In this work, we present ...
  • First discovery of a fast-rotating blue straggler in a compact binary with a sub-stellar companion 
    Sheikh, A. H; Medhi, B. J; Messina, S; Subramaniam, A; Panwar, Neelam; Sagar, R (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    We report the first discovery of a brown-dwarf (BD) companion using a radial velocity-based study of a rapidly rotating blue straggler star (BSS) in a short-period close binary system in NGC 2243. Multi-epoch spectra from ...
  • Thermal properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections at 1 au and their connection to geoeffectiveness across solar cycles 23─25 
    Khuntia, Soumyaranjan; Mishra, Wageesh (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are major drivers of heliospheric variability and can produce prolonged disturbances near Earth. Understanding their thermodynamic evolution is crucial for assessing their heat ...
  • A study of two Type IIb supernovae: SNe 2008aq and 2019gaf 
    Singh, Mridweeka; Sahu, D. K; Dastidar, R; Teja, Rishabh Singh; Gangopadhyay, A; Anupama, G. C; Howell, D. A; Bostroem, K. Azalee; McCully, Curtis; Burke, Jamison; Joshi, Arti; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Im, Hyobin; Srivastav, S; Misra, K (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    We present photometric and spectroscopic studies of two core-collapse supernovae (SNe) 2008aq and 2019gaf in the optical wav elengths. Light curv e and spectral sequence of both the SNe are similar to those of other Type ...
  • Optical observations of the fast nova V1674 herculis 
    Rawat, Neeraj Singh; Sonith, L. S; Kamath, U. S; Bhargava, Yash; Anupama, G. C; Singh, K. P (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2026-04)
    We present the evolution of optical spectra and light curves of the fast nova V1674 Herculis during 150 d past its eruption. Using the post-eruption AAVSO light curv e, w e hav e calculat ed the orbital period of V1674 Her ...
  • Structure and magnetic field of the bright-rimmed cloud IC 1396E/SFO 38 
    Sugitani, Koji; Wouterloot, Jan G. A; Parsons, Harriet; Graves, Sarah; Kusune, Takayoshi; Archana Soam (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 2026-02)
    We carried out polarimetric observations of the bright-rimmed cloud IC 1396E/SFO 38 with SCUBA-2/POL-2 to study the effect of ultraviolet (UV) light on its structure and magnetic field. This bright-rimmed cloud appears ...
  • Kinematics of acceleration-induced excitations in confined quantum fields 
    Shah, Hemansh; Kolekar, Sanved (American Physical Society, 2026-02-15)
    We investigate quantum field excitations in a rigid cavity that undergoes a transition from inertial motion to uniform acceleration while maintaining constant proper length. By constructing exact Bogoliubov transformations ...
  • Forecasting constraints on nonthermal light massive relics from future CMB experiments (CMB-S4/Simons Observatory) 
    Banerjee, Arka; Bhattacharjee, A; Das, Subinoy; Maharana, Anshuman; Sharma, Ravi Kumar (American Physical Society, 2026-02-15)
    Precise measurements of the cosmological impact of dark sector relics can shed light on physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work we present Fisher forecasts on nonthermal light massive relics (LiMR) models for a ...
  • Dust-obscured radio-emitting tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino event 
    Zhou, Tianyao; Shu, Xinwen; Mou, Guobin; Yang, Lei; Sun, Luming; Peng, Fangkun; Zhang, Fabao; Ding, Hucheng; Jiang, Ning; Wang, Tinggui; Chandola, Yogesh; Liu, Daizhong; Dou, L; Wang, Yibo; Wang, Jianguo; Wu, Zhongzu; Yang, Chenwei (American Physical Society, 2026-02-15)
    Despite the growing number of high-energy neutrinos (TeV–PeV) detected by IceCube, their astrophysical origins remain largely unidentified. Recent observations have linked a few tidal disruption events (TDEs) to the ...
  • Dynamical and photometric analysis of NGC146 and king 14: Evidence for a comoving, unbound cluster pair 
    Bisht, D; Jiang, Ing-Guey; Elsanhoury, W. H; Belwal, Kuldeep; Cinar, D. C; Raj, A; Biswas, S; Dattatrey, Arvind K; Rangwal, Geeta; Sariya, Devesh P; Bisht, Mohit Singh; Durgapal, Alok (American Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    To understand the nature of the NGC 146–King 14 cluster pair, we conducted a detailed photometric, astrometric, and dynamical study using multiwavelength data from Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS1, WISE, and TESS. Using a probabilistic ...
  • Characterization of an optical transfer function–based phasing technique for India’s large segmented mirror telescope 
    Radhika, Dharmadhikari; Parihar, P. S (American Astronomical Society, 2026-02)
    The upcoming 10 m class large Indian telescope is proposed to be built using segmented mirror technology. To achieve diffraction-limited image quality with a segmented mirror telescope, it is important to phase mirror ...
  • Two epochs of VLBI observations of eight KISSR seyfert and LINER galaxies: Suggestions of fast and filamentary outflows 
    Kharb, P; Caproni, Anderson; Ghosh, Salmoli; Schwartz, Daniel A; Mousumi Das; Subramanian, S; Vaddi, Sravani (American Astronomical Society, 2026-02-01)
    We present here the results from a second epoch of phase-referenced VLBA observations of eight Seyfert and LINER galaxies from the KISSR sample. These sources were chosen based on the presence of double peaks or asymmetries ...
  • Can dwarf spheroidal galaxies host a central black hole? 
    Aditya, K; Mangalam, A (American Astronomical Society, 2026-02-01)
    We construct mass models of Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies to place constraints on the central black hole masses they can host. We model the galaxies as a three-component system consisting of the stars, dark matter ...

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