IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • High-resolution spectroscopy of the extremely iron-poor post-AGB star CCâLyr 
    Aoki, W; Matsuno, Tadafumi; Honda, S; Parthasarathy, M (Astronomical Society of Japan, 2017-04)
    High-resolution optical spectroscopy was conducted for the metal-poor post-AGB star CC Lyr to determine its chemical abundances and spectral line profiles. Our standard abundance analysis confirms its extremely low ...
  • Optical variability of narrow-line and broad-line Seyfert 1 galaxies 
    Rakshit, S; Stalin, C. S (IOP Publishing, 2017-05)
    We studied the optical variability ( OV ) of a large sample of narrow-line Seyfert 1 ( NLSy1 ) and broad-line Seyfert 1 ( BLSy1 ) galaxies with z  <  0.8 to investigate any differences in their OV ...
  • Tensor Minkowski Functionals: first application to the CMB 
    Vidhya, G; Pravabati, C (IOP Publishing, 2017-05)
    ensor Minkowski Functionals (TMFs) are tensor generalizations of the usual Minkowski Functionals which are scalar quantities. We introduce them here for use in cos- mological analysis, in particular to analyze ...
  • Structure and variability in the corona of the ultrafast rotator LO Pegasi 
    Lalitha, S; Schmitt, J. H. M. M; Singh, K. P (EDP Sciences, 2017-07)
    Context. Low-mass ultrafast rotators show the typical signatures of magnetic activity and are known to produce flares, probably as a result of magnetic reconnection. As a consequence, the coronae of these stars exhibit ...
  • Coronal magnetic field lines and electrons associated with type IIIV radio bursts in a solar flare 
    Kishore, P; Kathiravan, C; Ramesh, R; Ebenezer, E (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017-05)
    We recently investigated some of the hitherto unreported observational characteristics of the low frequency (85–35 MHz) type III–V bursts from the Sun using radio spectropolarimeter observations. The quantitative ...
  • Hundred Years of Einstein's Cosmological Constant 
    Sivaram, C; Arun, K; Kiren, O. V; Sivaram, C (Isaac Scientific Publishing, 2018-06)
    It was little over a hundred years ago that Einstein introduced the ‘cosmological constant’ in his General Theory of Relativity in order to obtain a static universe, to conform to the philosophical view of the universe ...
  • In-orbit performance of UVIT and first results 
    Tandon, S. N; Hutchings, J. B; Ghosh, S. K; Subramaniam, A; George, K|; Girish, V; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Kumar, A; Lancelot, J.P; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Postma, J; Kameswara Rao, N; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Sriram, S; Stalin, C. S; Sutaria, F. K; Sreedhar, Yuvraj Harsha; Barve, Indrajit V; Mondal, Chayan; Snehalata Sahu (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017-06)
    The performance of the ultraviolet telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat is reported. The performance in orbit is also compared with estimates made from the calibrations done on the ground. The sensitivity is found to be ...
  • Long-term variations in the intensity of plages and networks as observed in Kodaikanal Ca-K digitized data 
    Priyal, M; Singh, J; Ravindra, B; Kameshwaran Rathina, Somasundaram (Springer, 2017-07)
    In our previous article (Priyal et al. in Solar Phys. 289, 127, 2014) we have discussed the details of observations and methodology adopted to analyze the Ca-K spectroheliograms obtained at the Kodaikanal Observatory (KO) ...
  • Accretion and wind dynamics in tidal disruption events 
    Mageshwaran, T; Mangalam, A (International Astronomical Union, 2017-06)
    We have constructed self similar models of time dependent and non relativistic ac- cretion disks in both sub and super-Eddington phase of TDEs with wind outflows for a general viscosity prescription which is a function ...
  • Buildings as Weapons of Mass Destruction 
    Bilham, R; Gaur, V. K (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013-08)
    A quarter of the world's population inhabits the nations of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. These countries lie on or near the northern edge of the Arabian and Indian ...
  • Noninvasive characterisation of foot reflexology areas by Sawept Source-Optical Coherence Tomography in patients with low back pain 
    Krishna, Dalal; Elanchezhiyan, D; Raunak, Das; Devjyoti, Dalal; Ravindra, Mohan Pandey; Chatterjee, Subhamoy; Ashish Datt, Upadhyay; Bharathi Maran, V; Jyotirmoy Chatterjee (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013-03)
    When exploring the scientific basis of reflexology techniques, elucidation of the surface and subsurface features of reflexology areas (RAs) is crucial. In this study, the subcutaneous features of RAs related to the lumbar ...
  • A New Technique for Solar Imaging Spectro-polarimetry using Shack-Hartmann and Fabry-Perot 
    Gosain, S; Sankarasubramanian, K; Venkatakrishnan, P; Bayanna, A. R (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012-12)
    A new technique for solar imaging spectro-polarimetry is presented. Using the combination of a Shack-Hartmann (SH) and a Fabry-Pérot (FP) interferometer, high-cadence spectroscopic observations can be obtained at discrete ...
  • Theoretical validation of potential habitability via analytical and boosted tree methods: An optimistic study on recently discovered exoplanets 
    Saha, S; Basak, S; Safonova, M; Bora, K; Agrawal, S; Sarkar, P; Murthy, J (Elsevier B.V, 2018-04)
    Seven Earth-sized planets, known as the TRAPPIST-1 system, was discovered with great fanfare in the last week of February 2017. Three of these planets are in the habitable zone of their star, making them potentially habitable ...
  • Study of Three-dimensional Magnetic Structure and the Successive Eruptive Nature of Active Region 12371 
    Vemareddy, P; Demoulin, P (IOP Publishing, 2018-04-20)
    We study the magnetic structure of a successively erupting sigmoid in active region 12371 by modeling the quasi-static coronal field evolution with nonlinear force-free field (NLFFF) equilibria. Helioseismic and Magnetic ...
  • Excitation Mechanism of O i Lines in Herbig Ae/Be Stars 
    Mathew, v; Manoj, P; Narang, Mayank; Banerjee, D. P. K; Pratheeksha Nayak; Muneer, S; Vig, S; Kumar, S. P; Paul, K. T; Maheswar, G (IOP Publishing, 2018-04-10)
    We have investigated the role of a few prominent excitation mechanisms viz. collisional excitation, recombination, continuum fluorescence, and Lyman beta fluorescence on the O i line spectra in Herbig Ae/Be stars. The aim ...
  • Moving groups in the galactic disc 
    Ramya, P; Reddy, B. E (Cambridge University Press, 2014-01)
    We present results of chemical abundance study of a few representative stellar streams of Galactic thick and thin discs. Arcturus stream, which was proposed to have an extragalactic origin, and a recently detected stream ...
  • Interstellar extinction from photometric surveys: application to four high-latitude areas 
    Malkov, O; Karpov, S; Kilpio, E; Sichevsky, S; Chulkov, D; Dluzhnevskaya, O; Kovaleva, D; Kniazev, A; Mickaelian, A; Mironov, A; Murthy, J; Sytov, A; Zhao, G; Zhukov, A (De Gruyter, 2018-04)
    Information on interstellar extinction and dust properties may be obtained from modern large photometric surveys data. Virtual Observatory facilities allow users to make a fast and correct cross-identification of objects ...
  • A New Technique for Solar Imaging Spectro-polarimetry using Shack-Hartmann and Fabry-Perot 
    Placco, V. M; Beers, T. C; Rossi, S; Kennedy, C; Christlieb, N; Lee, Y. S; Sivarani, T (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012-02)
    A new technique for solar imaging spectro-polarimetry is presented. Using the combination of a Shack-Hartmann (SH) and a Fabry-Pérot (FP) interferometer, high-cadence spectroscopic observations can be obtained at discrete ...
  • Scientific Summary of the First BINA Workshop 
    Sagar, R (Bulletin de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    "Scientific summary of the first Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy & Astrophysics (BINA) workshop is presented here. In the workshop, invited talks were supplemented with the contributory talks and poster paper ...
  • Making Good Use of Bad Weather: Finding Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Clouds 
    Placco, V. M; Beers, T. C; Rossi, S; Kennedy, C; Christlieb, N; Lee, Y. S; Sivarani, T (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012-12)
    Current results are presented for a new survey effort to search for Extremely Metal-Poor (EMP) and Carbon Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars from the Hamburg / ESO objective-prism survey (HES). These stars are important ...

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