IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Investigating Extra-solar Planetary System Qatar-1 through Transit Observations 
    Thakur, P; Mannaday, V. K; Jiang, I; Sahu, D. K; Chand, S (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    We report the results of the transit timing variation (TTV) analysis of the extra-solar planet Qatar1b using thirty eight light curves. Our analysis combines thirty five previously available transit light curves with three ...
  • Facilities at Indian Institute of Astrophysics and New Initiatives 
    Bhatt, B. C (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is a premier national institute of India for the study of and research into topics pertaining to astronomy, astrophysics and related subjects. The Institute’s main campus in Bangalore ...
  • Present status of the 4-m ILMT data reduction pipeline: application to space debris detection and characterization 
    Pradhan, B; Delchambre, L; Akhunov, T; Hickson, P; Bartczak, P; Kumar, B; Surdej, J (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) located at the ARIES Observatory (Devasthal, India) has been designed to scan at a latitude of +29◦ 22’ 26” a band of sky having a width of about half a degree in the ...
  • Supernovae study: Context of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope 
    Kumar, B; Pandey, S. B; Pandey, Kanhaiya L; Anapuma, G. C; Surdej, J (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The upcoming 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) facility will perform deep imaging (in single scan g 0 ∼22 mag) of a narrow strip of sky each clear night in the Time Delayed Integration mode. A cadence of ...
  • The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope 
    Surdej, J; Hickson, P; Borra, E; Swings, J; Habraken, S; Akhunov, T; Bartczak, P; Chand, H; De Becker, M; Delchambre, L; Finet, F; Kumar, B; Pandey, A; Pospieszalska, A; Pradhan, B; Sagar, R; Wertz, O; De Cat, P; Denis, S; de Ville, J; Jaiswar, M. K; Lampens, P; Nanjappa, N; Tortolani, J (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is presently (March-June 2017) being erected on the ARIES site in Devasthal (Uttarakhand). We describe and illustrate in the present paper its different components. ...
  • 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope Project: Completion and first results 
    Kumar, Brijesh; Omar, A; Maheswar, G; Pandey, A. K; Sagar, R; Uddin, W; Sanwal, B. B; Bangia, T; Kumar, T. S; Yadav, S; Sahu, S; Pant, J; Reddy, B. K; Gupta, A. C; Chand, H; Pandey, J. C; Joshi, M. K; Jaiswar, M; Nanjappa, N; Purushottam; Yadav, R. K. S; Sharma, S; Pandey, S. B; Joshi, S; Joshi, Y. C; Lata, S; Mehdi, B. J; Misra, K; Singh, M (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    We present an update on the 3.6-m aperture optical telescope, which has been installed at Devasthal in the year 2016. In this paper, a brief overview of installation activities at site and first results are presented. The ...
  • Measurement of astronomical seeing using long exposure solar images 
    Sridharan, R; Ravindra, B; Prabhu, K (Springer, 2019-01)
    We extend our modified parameter search method (Sridharan, Dashora, and Venkatakrishnan, Solar Phys.222, 35, 2004) of estimating the Fried parameter (r0) from long exposure images to the images obtained from the Hα-telescope ...
  • Spectroscopic study of two new super Li-rich red clump K giants 
    Raghubar, Singh; Reddy, B. E; Bharat Kumar, Y (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-01)
    In this paper, we report the discovery of two new super Li-rich K giants: HD 24960 and TYC 1751-1713-1. Based on high-resolution (R ≈ 60 000) spectroscopy, we have derived Li abundance of A(Li) ≈ 4.0 dex for both ...
  • UVIT–HST–GAIA view of NGC 288: a census of the hot stellar population and its properties from UV 
    Snehalata Sahu; Subramaniam, A; Cote, Patrick; Kameswara Rao, N; Stetson, Peter B (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-01)
    A complete census of the blue horizontal branch (BHB) and blue straggler star (BSS) population within a 10 radius from the centre of the globular cluster NGC 288 is presented, based on images from the Ultraviolet Imaging ...
  • The puzzling high velocity G5 supergiant star HD 179821: new insight from Gaia DR2 data 
    Parthasarathy, M; Jasniewicz, G; Thevenin, F (Springer, 2019-01)
    HD 179821 is classified as G5 Ia star. From the IRAS colors and spectral energy distributions it was classified as a post-AGB star. But some studies classify it as a massive (30 to 19 M⊙) post-red supergiant evolving to ...
  • Minkowski Tensors in Two Dimensions: Probing the Morphology and Isotropy of the Matter and Galaxy Density Fields 
    Appleby, S; Pravabati, C; Park, C; Hong, S. E; Kim, J; Vidhya, G (IOP Publishing, 2018-05-10)
    We apply the Minkowski tensor statistics to two-dimensional slices of the three-dimensional matter density field. The Minkowski tensors are a set of functions that are sensitive to directionally dependent signals in the ...
  • Insights on bar quenching from a multiwavelength analysis: the case of messier 95 
    George, K; Joseph, P; Mondal, Chayan; Subramanian, S; Subramaniam, A; Paul, K. T (EDP Sciences, 2019-01)
    The physical processes related to the effect of bars in the quenching of star formation in the region between the nuclear/central sub-kiloparsec region and the ends of the bar (bar region) of spiral galaxies is not fully ...
  • Ultraviolet astronomy with small space telescopes 
    Brosch, N; Gomez De Castro, Ana; Murthy, J; Ribak, E; Behar, E; Balabanov, V (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2017-08)
    After describing the present situation with astronomy in the ultraviolet (UV), reviewing a few past and proposed future missions, we present options to develop space missions that have been realized for modest costs. In ...
  • The effects of the small-scale behaviour of dark matter power spectrum on CMB spectral distortion 
    Sarkar, A; Sethi, S. K; Das, Subinoy (IOP Publishing, 2017-07)
    After numerous astronomical and experimental searches, the precise particle nature of dark matter is still unknown. The standard Weakly Interacting Massive Particle(WIMP) dark matter, despite successfully explaining the ...
  • The VMC Survey. XXIX. Turbulence-controlled Hierarchical Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud 
    Sun, N; de Grijs, R; Cioni, M. L; Rubele, S; Subramanian, S; van Loon, J. T; Bekki, K; Bell, C. P. M; Ivanov, V. D; Marconi, M; Muraveva, T; Oliveira, J. M; Ripepi, V (IOP Publishing, 2018-05-03)
    In this paper we report a clustering analysis of upper main-sequence stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, using data from the VMC survey (the VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the Magellanic system). Young stellar ...
  • Polarized Line Formation in Arbitrary Strength Magnetic Fields Angle-averaged and Angle-dependent Partial Frequency Redistribution 
    Sampoorna, M; Nagendra, K. N; Stenflo, J. O (IOP Publishing, 2017-08)
    Magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere leave their fingerprints in the polarized spectrum of the Sun via the Hanle and Zeeman effects. While the Hanle and Zeeman effects dominate, respectively, in the weak and strong ...
  • Recurring coronal holes and their rotation rates during the solar cycles 22-24 
    Prabhu, K; Ravindra, B; Hegde, M; Doddamani, V. H (Springer, 2018-05)
    Coronal holes (CHs) play a significant role in making the Earth geo-magnetically active during the declining and minimum phases of the solar cycle. In this study, we analysed the evolutionary characteristics of the Recurring ...
  • Search for anomalous alignments of structures in planck data using minkowski tensors 
    Joby, P. K; Pravabati, C; Ghosh, T; Vidhya Ganesan; Ravikumar, C. D (IOP Publishing, 2019-01)
    Minkowski Tensors are tensorial generalizations of the scalar Minkowski Functionals. Due to their tensorial nature they contain additional morphological information of structures, in particular about shape and alignment, ...
  • Successive Homologous Coronal Mass Ejections Driven by Shearing and Converging Motions in Solar Active Region NOAA 12371 
    Vemareddy, P (IOP Publishing, 2017-08)
    We study the magnetic field evolution in AR 12371, related to its successive eruptive nature. During the disk transit of seven days, the active region (AR) launched four sequential fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs), ...
  • p-capture reaction cycles in rotating massive stars and their impact on elemental abundances in globular cluster stars: A case study of O, Na and Al 
    Mahanta, Upakul; Goswami, A; Duorah, H. L; Duorah, K (IOP Publishing, 2017-08)
    Elemental abundance patterns of globular cluster stars can provide important clues for understanding cluster formation and early chemical evolution. The origin of the abundance patterns, however, still remains poorly ...

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