IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • 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, ...
  • Exploring the variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53): new RR Lyrae and SX Phoenicis stars 
    Arellano Ferro, A; Figuera Jaimes, R; Giridhar, S; Bramich, D. M; Hernández Santisteban, J. V; Kuppuswamy, K (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-09)
    We report CCD V and I time series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53). The technique of difference image analysis has been used which enables photometric precisions better than 10 mmag for stars brighter than ...
  • Dust around R Coronae Borealis Stars. I. Spitzer/Infrared Spectrograph Observations 
    Aníbal García-Hernández, D; Kameswara Rao, N; Lambert, D. L (IOP Publishing, 2011-09-20)
    Spitzer/infrared spectrograph (IRS) spectra from 5 to 37 μm for a complete sample of 31 R Coronae Borealis stars (RCBs) are presented. These spectra are combined with optical and near-infrared photometry of each RCB at ...
  • An overview of some experimental and theoretical aspects of fundamental symmetry violations in atoms 
    Budker, D; Sahoo, B. K; Angom, D; Das, B. P (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2010-12)
    We present some of the advances in our experimental and theoretical studies of violations in fundamental symmetries in atoms. A part of this work was performed under the auspices of a NSF{DST project. During this period, ...
  • Polarized Line Formation in Multi-dimensional Media. IV. A Fourier Decomposition Technique to Formulate the Transfer Equation with Angle-dependent Partial Frequency Redistribution 
    Anusha, L. S; Nagendra, K. N (IOP Publishing, 2011-09-20)
    To explain the linear polarization observed in spatially resolved structures in the solar atmosphere, the solution of polarized radiative transfer (RT) equation in multi-dimensional (multi-D) geometries is essential. For ...
  • Aspects of Observational Astronomy in India: The Vidyasankara temple at Sringeri 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Thakur, Priya (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, 2011-07)
    The navaranga in the medieval stone temple of Vidyasankara at Sringeri, built around A.D. 1350, has twelve zodiacal pillars arranged in a square with the zodiacal signs carved on them. It has been claimed that the morning ...
  • Madras observatory and the discovery of C/1831 A1 (The Great Comet of 1831) 
    Kapoor, R. C (Centre for Astronomy, James Cook University, 2011-07)
    In this paper we present excerpts from the records at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Archives that show that T.G. Taylor, an astronomer at the Madras Observatory, was an independent discoverer of the Great Comet ...
  • X-ray attenuation coefficient of mixtures: Inputs for dual-energy CT 
    Haghighi, R. R; Chatterjee, S; Vyas, A; Pratik Kumar; Thulkar, S (American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2011-10)
    The attenuation coefficient, μ(E) of substances, at any energy (E) of the x-ray photon, is known to depend on the electron density (ρe) and the effective atomic number (Zeff) of the material. While the dependence on ρe is ...
  • Coronal type II bursts and interplanetary type II bursts: Distinct shock drivers 
    Suryanarayana, G. S (Elsevier B.V., 2012-02)
    We study solar radio type II bursts combining with Wind/WAVES type II bursts and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The aim of the present work is to investigate the effectiveness of shocks to cause type II bursts in the solar ...
  • Radio and X-ray Emission from Low-Luminosity AGNs: Testing Unification Hypothesis 
    Singh, V; Shastri, P; Risaliti, G; Athreya, R (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010-10)
    We investigate the low-frequency radio properties and the X-ray spectral properties of a sample of Seyfert galaxies in order to compare the two subtypes of Seyferts and rigorously test the predictions of Seyfert unification.

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