IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Fibre spectroscopy and BV CCD photometry of the southern open cluster NGC 3114 
    Sagar, R; Sharples, Ray M (European Southern Observatory, 1991-04)
    New spectroscopic and photometric observations are presented for a sample of faint stars which extends the color-magnitude diagram of the open cluster NGC 3114 down to V = 16 mag. The distance to the cluster is estimated ...
  • CCD photometry of the distant young open cluster NGC 7510 
    Sagar, R; Griffiths, W. K (Royal Astronomical Society, 1991-06)
    CCD observations in B, V, and I passbands have been used to generate deep V, (B-V), and V,(V-I) color-magnitude diagrams for the open cluster NGC 7510. The sample consists of 592 stars reaching down to V = 21 mag. There ...
  • Dynamics of the Solar Magnetic Network. II. Heating the Magnetized Chromosphere 
    Hasan, S. S; van Ballegooijen, A. A (The American Astronomical Society, 2008-06-20)
    We consider recent observations of the chromospheric network and argue that the bright network grains observed in the Ca ii H and K lines are heated by an as-yet-unidentified quasi-steady process. We propose that the heating ...
  • Intensity oscillations and heating of the coronal X-ray bright points from Hinode/XRT 
    Kariyappa, R; Varghese, B. A (EDP Sciences, 2008-07)
    Aims. Our aim is to investigate the intensity oscillations in coronal X-ray Bright Points (XBPs). Methods. We analysed a 7 h long time sequence of the soft X-ray images obtained on April 14, 2007 with a 2 min cadence using ...
  • Zeeman line formation in solar magnetic fields. Studies with empirical probability distribution functions 
    Sampoorna, M; Nagendra, K. N; Frisch, H; Stenflo, J. O (EDP Sciences, 2008-07)
    Context. Numerical simulations of magneto-convection and analysis of solar magnetograms provide probability distribution functions (PDFs) for the magnetic field strength. Aims. In the paper, we explore the effects of these ...
  • Stellar Disruption by Supermassive Black Holes and the Quasar Radio Loudness Dichotomy 
    Gopal-Krishna; Mangalam, A; Wiita, P. J (The American Astronomical Society, 2008-06-10)
    The origin of the dichotomy of radio loudness among quasars can be explained using recent findings that the mass of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) in extended radio-loud quasars is systematically a few times ...
  • Scattering of light by a periodic structure in the presence of randomness VII: Application of statistical detection test 
    Vani, V. C; Chatterjee, S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2008-05)
    Detection of periodic structures, hidden in random surfaces has been addressed by us for some time and the `extended matched filter' method, developed by us, has been shown to be effective in detecting the ...
  • The Evolution of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova SN 2005hk over 400 Days 
    Sahu, D. K; Tanaka, M; Anupama, G. C; Kawabata, K. S; Maeda, K; Tominaga, N; Nomoto, K; Mazzali, P. A; Prabhu, T. P (The American Astronomical Society, 2008-06-10)
    UBVRI photometry and medium-resolution optical spectroscopy of the peculiar Type Ia supernova SN 2005hk are presented and analyzed, covering the premaximum phase to around 400 days after explosion. The supernova is found ...
  • Stellar contents and star formation in the young open cluster Stock 8 
    Jose, J; Pandey, A. K; Ojha, D. K; Ogura, K; Chen, W. P; Bhatt, B. C; Ghosh, S. K; Mito, H; Maheswar, G; Sharma, S (Blackwell Publishing, 2008-03)
    We present UBVIc CCD photometry of the young open cluster Stock 8 with the aim of studying its basic properties such as the amount of interstellar extinction, distance, age, stellar contents and initial mass function (IMF). ...
  • Clustering of Galaxies by the Alpha-Effect 
    Krishan, V (Royal Astronomical Society, 1993-09-01)
    The development of large-scale flows from the stresses generated by small-scale flows in a Navier-Stokes system is studied in order to model the large-scale structure of the Universe. This process is an analogue of the ...
  • Polarization Maps for the Dark Clouds B:227 and L:121 
    Bhatt, H. C; Jain, S. K (European Southern Observatory, 1993-09)
    Optical linear polarization measurements for stars in the regions of the molecular clouds B 227 and L 121 are presented. The magnetic field geometry in the clouds as indicated by the polarization maps is discussed in ...
  • BV Photometry and Hα Spectroscopy of the Rs-Canum Binary II-Pegasi 
    Mohin, S; Raveendran, A. V (European Southern Observatory, 1993-09)
    Differential BV photometry of II Peg obtained on a total of 57 nights during the years 1986-1991 and Hα spectroscopy obtained on 12 nights during the 1990-1991 observing season are presented. From an analysis of the available ...
  • Polarization Changes of Radiation through Stimulated Raman Scattering 
    Gangadhara, R. T; Krishan, V (The American Astronomical Society, 1993-10)
    We study change in the polarization of electromagnetic waves due to the stimulated Raman scattering in a plasma. In this process an electromagnetic wave undergoes coherent scattering off an electron plasma wave. It is found ...
  • Nebular emission lines in IRAS 10215-5916 
    Garcia-Lario, P; Manchado, A; Parthasarathy, M; Pottasch, S. R (European Southern Observatory, 1994-05)
    From low and high resolution spectroscopic observations of IRAS 10215-5916 we have discovered the presence of nebular emission lines in this G-type supergiant star in the post-AGB stage. From its high resolution spectrum ...
  • Star Formation in Giant Extragalactic H II Regions 
    Mayya, Y. Divakara (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1994-04)
    Star formation properties in Giant Extragalactic H II Regions (GEHRs) are investigated using optical photometry and evolutionary population synthesis models. Photometric data in $BVR$ bands and in the emission line of ...
  • The R Coronae Borealis stars - A few mere facts 
    Lambert, D. L; Kameswara Rao, N (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1994-03)
    This review presents a selection of recent highlights of observations of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) variables. Emphasis is placed on an abundance analysis of a complete sample (18 stars) of the warm galactic RCBs. It is shown ...
  • High speed photometry of PG 1012-029 
    Ashoka, B. N; Seetha, S; Marar, T. M. K; Kasturirangan, K; Rao, U. R; Bhattacharyya, J. C (European Southern Observatory, 1994-03)
    High speed optical photometric observations of PG 1012 - 029, conducted during 1990-1991, confirm the nova-like classification of the object. Several eclipses observed by us have been used to refine the orbital period of ...
  • Rapid searches for counterparts of GRB 930131 
    Schaefer, Bradley. E; Barthelmy, Scott. D; Palmer, David. M; Cline, Thomas. L; Hurley, Kevin. C; Sommer, Michael; Boer, Michel; Niel, Michel; Fishman, Gerald. J; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Meegan, Charles. A; Coe, M. J; Elmegreen, Bruce. G; McNamara, Bernard. J; Harrison, Thomas; Owens, Alan; Sollee, Neyle; Stull, John; Palermiti, Michael; Schwartz, Richard; Brooks, Jack; Vanderspek, Roland; Ricker, George. R; Krimm, Hans. A; Wenzel, Wolfgang; Greiner, Jochen; Hudec, Rene; Novak, Miroslav; Borovicka, Jiri; Predota, Miroslav; Bailyn, Charles. D; Hanlon, Lorraine. O; Bennett, K; Spoelstra, Titus. A. Th; Smette, Alain; Pedersen, Holger; Florentin, Ralph; Pollas, Christian; Steinle, Helmut; Schramm, K. J; Iyengar, K. V. K; Prabhu, T. P (American Astronomical Society, 1994-02)
    A fading counterpart to a gamma-ray burst (GRB) would appear as a point source inside a GRB error region soon after the burst which dims on a timescale from minutes to days. The favorable circumstances of the burst GRB ...
  • Steps toward determination of the size and structure of the broad-line region in active galactic nuclei. 6: Variability of NGC 3783 from ground-based data 
    Stirpe, G. M; Winge, C; Altieri, B; Alloin, D; Aguero, E. L; Anupama, G. C; Ashley, R; Bertram, R; Calderon, J. H; Catchpole, R. M; Corradi, R. L. M; Covino, E; Dottori, H. A; Feast, M. W; Ghosh, K. K; Hutton, R. Gil; Glass, I. S; Grebel, E. K; Jorda, L; Koen, C; Laney, C. D; Maia, M; Marang, F; Mayya, Y. D; Morrell, N; Nakada, Y; Pastoriza, M. G; Pati, A. K; Pelat, D; Peterson, B. M; Prabhu, T. P; Roberts, G; Sagar, R; Salamanca, I; Sekiguchi, K; Storchi-Bergmann, T; Subramaniam, A; Van Winckel, H; Van Wyk, F; Villada, M; Wagner, R. M; Whitelock, P. A; Winkler, H; Clavel, J; Dietrich, M; Kollatschny, W; O'Brien, P. T; Perola, G. C; Recondo-Gonzalez, M. C; Rodriguez-Pascual, P; Santos-Lleo, M (The American Astronomical Society, 1994-04)
    The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 was intensely monitored in several bands between 1991 December and 1992 August. This paper presents the results from the ground-based observations in the optical and near-IR bands, which ...
  • Embedded clusters in giant extragalactic H II regions, 1: BVRH-alpha photometry 
    Mayya, Y. D (The American Astronomical Society, 1994-10)
    Photometry in BVR continuum bands and in the emission line of H-alpha+(N II) are presented for a sample of H II complexes in disk, spiral arm and nuclear regions of galaxies NGC 1365, 1566, 2366, 2903, 2997, 3351, 4303, ...

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