IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Group velocity tomography of the Indo-Eurasian collision zone 
    Acton, C. E; Priestley, K; Gaur, V. K; Rai, S. S (American Geophysical Union, 2010-12)
    We present results of a Rayleigh and Love wave group velocity dispersion study of the Indo-Eurasian collision zone. Group velocity dispersion curves are measured and combined to produce dispersion maps for 10–70 s period ...
  • Supergranulation and its Activity Dependence 
    Paniveni, U; Krishan, V; Singh, J; Srikanth, R (Cambridge University Press, 2011-08)
    We study the complexity of supergranular cells using the intensity patterns obtained at the Kodaikanal solar observatory during the solar maximum. Our data consists of visually identified supergranular cells, from which a ...
  • Evolution of Currents of Opposite Signs in the Flare-productive Solar Active Region NOAA 10930 
    Ravindra, B; Venkatakrishnan, P; Tiwari, S. K; Bhattacharyya, R (IOP Publishing, 2011-10-10)
    Analysis of a time series of high spatial resolution vector magnetograms of the active region NOAA 10930 available from the Solar Optical Telescope SpectroPolarimeter on board Hinode revealed that there is a mixture of ...
  • Measuring the level of nuclear activity in Seyfert galaxies and the unification scheme 
    Singh, V; Shastri, P; Risaliti, G (EDP Sciences, 2011-09)
    Context. The unification scheme of Seyfert galaxies hypothesizes that Seyfert type 1s and type 2s are intrinsically similar and the observed differences between the two subtypes are solely due to the differing orientations ...
  • Reheating in tachyonic inflationary models: Effects on the large scale curvature perturbations 
    Jain, R. K; Pravabati, C; Sriramkumar, L (Elsevier B.V., 2011-11)
    We investigate the problem of perturbative reheating and its effects on the evolution of the curvature perturbations in tachyonic inflationary models. We derive the equations governing the evolution of the scalar perturbations ...
  • Application of relativistic coupled cluster linear response theory to helium-like ions embedded in plasma environment 
    Madhulita Das; Chaudhuri, R. K; Chattopadhyay, S; Mahapatra, U. S; Mukherjee, P. K (IOP Publishing, 2011-08)
    Ionization potential and low lying 1S0\longrightarrow1P1 excitation energies (EE) of highly stripped He-like ions C4 +, Al11 +, and Ar16 + embedded in plasma environment are calculated for the first time using the ...
  • Application of an efficient multireference approach to free-base porphin and metalloporphyrins: Ground, excited, and positive ion states 
    Chaudhuri, R. K; Freed, K. F; Chattopadhyay, S; Mahapatra, U. S (American Institute of Physics, 2011-08)
    The improved virtual orbital-complete active space configuration interaction (IVO-CASCI) method is applied to determine the geometries of the ground state of free-base porphin and its metal derivatives, magnesium and zinc ...
  • A Model for Simulating Realistic Profiles of Pulsars 
    Thomas, R. M. C; Gupta, Y; Gangadhara, R. T (American Institute of Physics, 2011-08)
    We devise an accurate method to compute the emission profile corresponding to a given set of pulsar emission parameters, for eg. inclination angle alpha, impact angle beta, frequency of emission omega, Lorentz factor gamma, ...
  • Erratum: "The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III" (2011, ApJS, 193, 29) 
    Aihara, H and 178 coauthors; Sivarani, T (IOP Publishing, 2011-08)
  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems 
    Eisenstein, D. J and 243 coauthors; Sivarani, T (IOP Publishing, 2011-09)
    Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of ...
  • EPOXI: Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Observations from a Worldwide Campaign 
    Meech, K. J and 194 coauthors; Bhatt, B. C; Sahu, D. K (IOP Publishing, 2011-06-10)
    Earth- and space-based observations provide synergistic information for space mission encounters by providing data over longer timescales, at different wavelengths and using techniques that are impossible with an in situ ...
  • Large optical mirror making technology and facility at Indian Institute of Astrophysics 
    Saxena, A. K (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1990)
    Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has recently completed building of 2.34 MTelescopeS Optics for the same was fabricated in the Optical shop of the Institute. Thepaper describes the technology used in making 2.34 M ...
  • Design and test of a high-resolution EUV spectroheliometer 
    Berger, T. E; Timothy, J. G; Walker II, A. B. C; Kirby, H; Morgan, J. S; Jain, S. K; Saxena, A. K; Huber, M. H; Tondello, G; Naletto, G (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1992)
    The HiRES High-Resolution EUV Spectroheliometer is a sounding rocket instrument yielding very high spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution images of the solar outer atmosphere, on the basis of a 45-cm Gregorian telescope ...
  • HiRES: High-resolution extreme-ultraviolet spectroheliometer toroidal diffraction grating performance evaluation 
    Berger, T. E; Bergamini, P; Walker II, A. B. C; Jain, S. K; Saxena, A. K; Bhattacharyya, J. C; Huber, M. H; Tondello, G; Naletto, G; Baker, P. C (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1993)
    The HiRES sounding rocket payload has been described in detail in previous SPIE Proceedings. Here, optical design of the toroidal grating spectrograph is presented and discussed. Ray tracing results are presented which ...
  • Development of an active-optics system for 27-inch thin mirror 
    Saxena, A. K; Lancelot, J. P; Samson, J. P (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1993-12)
    India is planning to build a large Optical/Infrared Telescope of 4 to 5 M in size. This telescope will adopt most of the features of the New Technology Telescope including active and adoptive optics corrections for achieving ...
  • Object-oriented programming approach to CCD data acquisition and image processing 
    Naidu, B. N; Srinivasan, R; Muralishankar, S (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1997-10)
    In the recent past both the CCD camera controller hardware and software have witnessed a dynamic change to keep pace with the astronomer's imaging requirements. Conventional data acquisition software is based on menu driven ...
  • 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 ...
  • NLST: the Indian National Large Solar Telescope 
    Hasan, S. S; Soltau, D; Kärcher, H; Süss, M; Berkefeld, T (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2010-07)
    India is planning a new solar telescope with an aperture of 2-m for carrying out high resolution studies of the Sun. Site characterization is underway at high altitude locations in the Himalayan mountains. A detailed concept ...
  • 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, ...

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