IIAP Publications: Recent submissions

  • Accretion flow properties of GRS 1915+105 during Its θ class using AstroSat data 
    Banerjee, Anuvab; Bhattacharjee, Ayan; Chatterjee, Debjit; Debnath, Dipak; Chakrabarti, S. K; Katoch, Tilak; Antia, H. M (IOP Publishing, 2021-08-01)
    The Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 shows rich variability that is categorized into different classes. In this paper, we report the temporal and spectral analysis of GRS 1915+105 to study the properties of the accretion ...
  • A triple active galactic nucleus in the NGC 7733–7734 merging group 
    Yadav, Jyoti; Mousumi Das; Barway, Sudhanshu; Combes, Francoise (EDP Sciences, 2021-07)
    Context. Galaxy interactions and mergers can lead to supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries, which become active galactic nucleus (AGN) pairs when the SMBHs start accreting mass. If there is a third galaxy involved in the ...
  • Accretion flow properties of GRS 1716-249 during its 2016–17 failed outburst 
    Chatterjee, Kaushik; Debnath, Dipak; Chatterjee, Debjit; Jana, Arghajit; Sujoy Kumar Nath; Bhowmick, Riya; Chakrabarti, S. K (Springer Nature, 2021-07)
    In 2016–17, the Galactic transient black hole candidate GRS 1716-249 exhibited an outburst event after a long quiescence period of almost 23 years. The source remained in the outbursting phase for almost 9 months. We study ...
  • Early mass-varying neutrino dark energy: nugget formation and Hubble anomaly 
    Gogoi, Antareep; Sharma, Ravi Kumar; Chanda, Prolay; Das, Subinoy (IOP Publishing, 2021-07-10)
    We present a novel scenario in which light (~few eV) dark fermions (sterile neutrinos) interact with a scalar field as in mass-varying neutrino dark energy theories. As the eV sterile states naturally become nonrelativistic ...
  • The nature of non-Gaussianity and statistical isotropy of the 408 MHz Haslam synchrotron map 
    Fazlu Rahman; Pravabati, C; Ghosh, Tuhin (IOP Publishing, 2021-07)
    Accurate component separation of full-sky maps in the radio and microwave frequencies, such as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), relies on a thorough understanding of the statistical properties of the Galactic foreground ...
  • Turbulent proton heating rate in the solar wind from 5–45 R⊙ 
    Sasikumar Raja, K; Subramanian, P; Ingale, M; Ramesh, R; Maksimovic, Milan (IOP Publishing, 2021-06-20)
    Various remote sensing observations have been used so far to probe the turbulent properties of the solar wind. Using the recently reported density modulation indices that are derived using angular broadening observations ...
  • A theoretical model of the near-surface shear layer of the Sun 
    Jha, Bibhuti K; Choudhuri, A. R (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-09)
    The Sun has a near-surface shear layer (NSSL), within which the angular velocity decreases rapidly with radius. We provide an explanation of this layer based on the thermal wind balance equation. Since convective motions ...
  • Low frequency view of GRB 190114C reveals time varying shock micro-physics 
    Misra, K; Resmi, L; Kann, D. A; Marongiu, M; Moin, A; Klose, S; Bernardi, G; de Ugarte Postigo, A; Jaiswal, V. K; Schulze, S; Perley, D. A; Ghosh, A; Dimple; Kumar, H; Gupta, R; Michałowski, M. J; Martin, S; Cockeram, A; Cherukuri, S. V; Bhalerao, V; Anderson, G. E; Pandey, S. B; Anupama, G. C; Thone, C. C; Barway, Sudhanshu; Wieringa, M. H; Fynbo, J. P. U; Habeeb, N (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-07)
    We present radio and optical afterglow observations of the TeV-bright long gamma-ray burst 190114C at a redshift of z = 0.425, which was detected by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescope. Our observations ...
  • Some glimpses of the plasma processes involved in power spectra of radio pulsars 
    Roy, Tridib (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-07)
    Although more than a half-century since pulsar discovery, the field of pulsar astronomy has attained an unprecedented level of success and has opened several windows in astronomy, very few theories have been put forwarded ...
  • Jet properties of XTE J1752−223 during its 2009–2010 outburst 
    Debnath, Dipak; Chatterjee, Kaushik; Chatterjee, Debjit; Jana, Arghajit; Chakrabarti, S. K (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-07)
    Galactic short orbital period black hole candidate (BHC) XTE J1752−223 was discovered on 2009 October 21 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We study the spectral properties of this outburst using transonic flow ...
  • Appearance versus disappearance of broad absorption line troughs in quasars 
    Mishra, Sapna; Vivek, M; Chand, Hum; Joshi, Ravi (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-07)
    We present a new set of 84 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars (1.7 < zem < 4.4) exhibiting an appearance of C IV BAL troughs over 0.3–4.8 rest-frame years by comparing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release (SDSSDR)-7, ...
  • Galaxy flybys: evolution of the bulge, disc, and spiral arms 
    Ankit Kumar; Mousumi Das; Kataria, Sandeep Kumar (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-09)
    Galaxy flybys are as common as mergers in low-redshift Universe and are important for galaxy evolution as they involve the exchange of significant amounts of mass and energy. In this study, we investigate the effect of ...
  • Evolution of primordial dark matter planets in the early Universe 
    Kiren, O. V; Arun, K; Sivarani, C (Elsevier B. V, 2021-08-15)
    In a recent paper we had discussed possibility of DM at high redshifts forming primordial planets composed entirely of DM to be oneof the reasons for not detecting DM (as the flux of ambient DM particles would be consequently ...
  • In-orbit performance of UVIT over the past 5 years 
    Ghosh, S. K; Joseph, P; Kumar, A; Postma, J; Stalin, C. S; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N; Barve, Indrajit V; Devaraj, A; George, K; Girish, V; Hutchings, J. B; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Lancelot, J. P; Leahy, D; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, R; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Sriram, S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Over the last 5 years, UVIT has completed observations of more than 500 proposals with ∼800 unique pointings. In addition, regular planned monitoring observations have been made and from their analysis various key parameters ...
  • Is the binding energy of galaxies related to their core black hole mass? 
    Sivaram, C; Arun, K (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Most of the large galaxies host a supermassive black hole, but their origin is still not well understood. In this paper, we look at a possible connection between the gravitational binding energies of large galaxies, etc., ...
  • Multiband transit follow-up observations of five hot Jupiters with critical noise treatments: improved physical properties 
    Saha, Suman; Chakrabarty, Aritra; Sengupta, S (IOP Publishing, 2021-07-01)
    The most challenging limitation in transit photometry arises from the noises in the photometric signal. In particular, the ground-based telescopes are heavily affected by the noise due to perturbation in the Earth’s ...
  • Stellar substructures in the periphery of the Magellanic Clouds with the VISTA hemisphere survey from the red clump and other tracers 
    El Youssouf, Dalal; Cioni, Maria-Rosa L; Bell, C. P. M; de Grijs, Richard; Groenewegen, M. A. T; Ivanov, Valentin D; Matijevic, Gal; Niederhofer, Florian; Oliveira, Joana M; Ripepi, Vincenzo; Schmidt, Thomas; Subramanian, S; Sun, Ning-Chen; van Loon, Jacco Th (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-08)
    We study the morphology of the stellar periphery of the Magellanic Clouds in search of substructure using near-infrared imaging data from the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy Hemisphere Survey. Based on ...
  • Non-sinusoidal transit timing variations for the exoplanet HAT-P-12b 
    Sariya, Devesh P; Jiang, I.- G; Su, Li-Hsin; Yeh, Li-Chin; Chang, Tze-En; Moskvin, V. V; Shlyapnikov, A. A; Ignatov, V; Mkrtichian, David; Griv, Evgeny; Mannaday, Vineet Kumar; Thakur, Parijat; Sahu, D. K; Chand, Swadesh; Bisht, D; Sun, Zhao; Ji, Jianghui (IOP Publishing, 2021-04)
    Considering the importance of investigating the transit timing variations (TTVs) of transiting exoplanets, we present a follow-up study of HAT-P-12b. We include six new light curves observed between 2011 and 2015 from three ...
  • Multiwavelength monitoring of NGC 1275 over a decade: evidence of a shift in synchrotron peak frequency and long-term multiband flux increase 
    Gulati, Sanna; Bhattacharya, Debbijoy; Bhattacharyya, Subir; Bhatt, N; Stalin, C. S; Agrawal, V. K (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-05)
    We carried out a detailed study of the temporal and broad-band spectral behaviour of one of the brightest misaligned active galaxies in γ-rays, NGC 1275, utilizing 11 years of Fermi data and the available Swift and AstroSat ...
  • UOCS – III. UVIT catalogue of open clusters with machine learning-based membership using Gaia EDR3 astrometry 
    Jadhav, Vikrant K; Pennock, C. M; Subramaniam, A; Sagar, R; Prasanta Kumar Nayak (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021-05)
    We present a study of six open clusters (Berkeley 67, King 2, NGC 2420, NGC 2477, NGC 2682, and NGC 6940), using the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) aboard ASTROSAT and Gaia EDR3. We used combinations of astrometric, ...

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