IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Thermal characteristics of a classical solar telescope primary mirror 
    Banyal, R. K; Ravindra, B (Elsevier B.V., 2011-08)
    We present a detailed thermal and structural analysis of a 2 m class solar telescope mirror which is subjected to a varying heat load at an observatory site. A 3-dimensional heat transfer model of the mirror takes into ...
  • Radio Continuum and H I Study of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies 
    Ramya, S; Kantharia, N. G; Prabhu, T. P (IOP Publishing, 2011-02)
    The multifrequency radio continuum and 21 cm H I observations of five blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies, Mrk 104, Mrk 108, Mrk 1039, Mrk 1069, and I Zw 97, using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) are presented ...
  • Seismic rays, satellites and sea winds 
    Gaur, V. K; Sujata Varadarajan (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2010-11)
    This section features conversations with personalities related to science, highlighting the factors and circumstances that guided them in making the career choice to be a scientist
  • A critique on Drexler dark matter 
    Sivaram, C; Arun, K; Nagaraja, R (Springer, 2011-05)
    Drexler dark matter is an alternate approach to dark matter that assumes that highly relativistic protons trapped in the halo of the galaxies could account for the missing mass. We look at various energetics involved in ...
  • Issues with external occultation of a coronagraph 
    Bayanna, A. R; Mathew, S. K; Sankarasubramanian, K; Venkatakrishnan, P; Singh, J; Prasad, B. R (Springer, 2011-04)
    This paper addresses some of the issues related to externally occulted solar coronagraph; vignetting and achievable resolution due to an external occulter. The analytical expression by Evans (J Opt Soc Am 38:1083–1085, ...
  • Light curve analysis of Hipparcos data for the massive O-type eclipsing binary UW CMa 
    Antokhina, E. A; Srinivasa Rao, M; Parthasarathy, M (Elsevier B.V, 2011-04)
    Hipparcos photometric data for the massive O-type binary UW CMa were analysed within the framework of the Roche model. Photometric solutions were obtained for five mass ratios in the q = M2/M1 = 0.5–1.5 range. The system ...
  • A Search for Unrecognized Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars 
    Placco, V. M; Kennedy, C. R; Rossi, S; Beers, T. C; Christlieb, N; Sivarani, T (Cambridge University Press, 2010-03)
    We have developed a new procedure to search for Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars from the Hamburg/ESO (HES) prism-survey plates. This method uses an extended line index for the CH G-band, which we demonstrate to ...
  • Near-IR Spectroscopy of CEMP Stars with SOAR/OSIRIS 
    Kennedy, C. R; Sivarani, T; Beers, T. C; Rossi, S; Placco, V. M; Johnson, J; Masseron, T (Cambridge University Press, 2010-03)
    We report on medium-resolution near-IR spectroscopy of a sample of over 60 Carbon- Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars observed with SOAR/OSIRIS, selected from the HK survey of Beers and colleagues and the Hamburg/ESO Survey ...
  • The metal–poor end of the Spite plateau 
    Sbordone, L; Bonifacio, P; Caffau, E; Ludwig, H. -G; Behara, N; Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. I; Steffen, M; Cayrel, R; Freytag, B; Van't Veer, C; Molaro, P; Plez, B; Sivarani, T; Spite, M; Spite, F; Beers, T. C; Christlieb, N; François, P; Hill, V (Cambridge University Press, 2010-03)
    We present the largest sample available to date of lithium abundances in extremely metal poor (EMP) Halo dwarfs. Four Teff estimators are used, including IRFM and Hα wings fitting against 3D hydrodynamical synthetic ...
  • The metal–poor end of the Spite plateau: gravity sensitivity of the Hα wings fitting. 
    Sbordone, L; Bonifacio, P; Caffau, E; Ludwig, H. -G; Behara, N; Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. I; Steffen, M; Cayrel, R; Freytag, B; Van't Veer, C; Molaro, P; Plez, B; Sivarani, T; Spite, M; Spite, F; Beers, T. C; Christlieb, N; François, P; Hill, V (Cambridge University Press, 2010-04)
    We recently presented (Sbordone et al., 2009a) the largest sample to date of lithium abundances in extremely metal-poor (EMP) Halo dwarf and Turn-Off (TO) stars. One of the most crucial aspects in estimating Li abundances ...
  • Proposed visible emission line space solar coronagraph 
    Singh, J; Prasad, B. R; Venkatakrishnan, P; Sankarasubramanian, K; Banerjee, D; Bayanna, R; Mathew, S; Murthy, J; Subramaniam, P; Ramesh, R; Kathiravan, S; Nagabhushana, S; Mahesh, P. K; Manoharan, P. K; Uddin, W; Sriram, S; Amit Kumar; Srivastava, N; Koteswara Rao; Nagendra, C. L; Chakraborty, P; Sriram, K. V; Venkateswaran, R; Krishnamurthy, T; Sreekumar, P; Sarma, K. S; Murthy, R; Navalgund, K. H; Samudraiah, D. R. M; Narayan Babu, P; Patra, A (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2011-01-25)
    The outer atmosphere of the sun – called the corona – has been observed during total solar eclipse for short periods (typically < 6 min), from as early as the eighteenth century. In the recent past, space-based instruments ...
  • Neon and CNO Abundances for Extreme Helium Stars—A Non-LTE Analysis 
    Pandey, G; Lambert, D. L (IOP Publishing, 2011-02)
    A non-LTE (NLTE) abundance analysis was carried out for three extreme helium stars (EHes): BD+10° 2179, BD–9° 4395, and LS IV+6° 002, from their optical spectra with NLTE model atmospheres. NLTE TLUSTY model atmospheres ...
  • Determining Interstellar Carbon Abundances from Strong-line Transitions 
    Sofia, U. J; Parvathi, V. S; Babu, B. R. S; Murthy, J (IOP Publishing, 2011-01)
    Carbon is arguably the most important element in the interstellar medium, yet its abundance in gas and dust is poorly understood due to a paucity of data. We explore the possibility of substantially increasing our knowledge ...
  • Influence of rotation on pulsar emission 
    Thomas, R. M. C; Gangadhara, R. T (Anita Publications, 2004-12)
    We analyze the motion of charged particles in rotating pulsar magnetosphere using the equation of motion, which was proposed earlier. We consider the projected magnetic field lines onto a 2D plane perpendicular to the ...
  • Fiber-fed echelle spectrometer of the 2.34 meter Vainu Bappu Telescope 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Sriram, S; Gabriel, F; Prasad, B. R; Samson, J. P. A; Jayakumar, K; Srinivasan, R; Mahesh, P. K; Giridhar, S (Anita Publications, 2004-12)
    The optical design and performance of high resolution fiber-fed echelle spectrometer for the 2.34 meter Vainu Bappu Telescope (VBT) is described. An optical fiber of core 100 J-Lm and length 45 meter is used to link the ...
  • The WIRCAM Deep Infrared Cluster Survey I. Groups and clusters at z  ≳  1.1 
    Bielby, R. M; Finoguenov, A; Tanaka, M; McCracken, H. J; Daddi, E; Hudelot, P; Ilbert, O; Kneib, J. P; Le Fèvr, O; Mellier, Y; Nandra, K; Petitjean, P; Srianand, R; Stalin, C. S; Willott, C. J (EDP Sciences, 2010-12)
    We use a combination of CFHTLS deep optical data, WIRcam Deep Survey (WIRDS) near-infrared data and XMM-Newton survey data to identify z ≳ 1.1 clusters in the CFHTLS D1 and D4 fields. Counterparts to such clusters can not ...
  • Second-order state-specific multireference Møller Plesset perturbation theory: Application to energy surfaces of diimide, ethylene, butadiene, and cyclobutadiene 
    Mahapatra, U. S; Chattopadhyay, S; Chaudhuri, R. K (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2011-01)
    The complete active space spin-free state-specific multireference Møller-Plesset perturbation theory (SS-MRMPPT) based on the Rayleigh-Schrödinger expansion has proved to be very successful in describing electronic states ...
  • Evolution of the active region NOAA 10570 associated with the flares 
    Sundararaman, K; Ramesh, K. B; Selvendran, R (Anita Publications, 2004-12)
    The structure and evolution of the photospheric magnetic fields observed in the active region NOAA 10570 are analyzed using Kodaikanal photoheliogram and spectroheliogram data. It is attempted to evaluate the shear angle ...
  • Detection of cooler loop-tops in a coronal structure 
    Singh, J; Sakurai, T; Ichimoto, K (Anita Publications, 2004-12)
    We have obtained off the limb' spectroscopic observations covering a coronal region of 200" x 500" in [Fe x] 6374 A and [Fe xi) 7892 A emission lines simultaneously. Yohkoh soft X-ray images of the sun showed two independent ...
  • A unified description of anti-dynamo conditions for incompressible flows 
    Mangalam, A (Anita Publications, 2004-12)
    A general type of mathematical argument is described, which applies to all the cases in which dynamo maintenance of a steady magnetic field by motion in a uniform density is known to be impossible. Previous work has ...

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