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Browsing Publications of Astronomical Society of India by Author "Bhat, P. N"

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  • Angular resolution of Pachmarhi array of Cverenkov telescopes 
    Majumdar, P; Acharya, B. S; Bhat, P. N; Chitnis, V. R; Rahman, M. A; Singh, B. B; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Pachmarhi Array of Cverenkov Telescopes (PACT), consisting of a distributed array of 25 telescopes is used to sample the atmospheric Cverenkov Photon showers. The shower front is fitted to a plane and the direction of ...
  • Auxiliary control systems for Pachmarhi array of Cverenkov telescopes 
    Gothe, K. S; Acharya, B. S; Bhat, P. N; Chitnis, V. R; D'Souza, A. I; Francis, P. J; John, A. V; Joshi, S. R; Majumdar, P; Nagesh, B. K; Pose, M. S; Purohit, P. N; Rahman, M. A; Rao, K. K; Rao, S. K; Sharma, S. K; Singh, B. B; Stanislaus, A. J; Sudershanan, P. V; Upadhya, S. S; Venkateshmurthy, B. L; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Pachmarhi Array of Cverenkov Telescopes (PACT) consists of 25 Telescopes deployed over an area of 100m x 80m. The experiment is based on atmospheric Cverenkov technique to detect Very High Energy celestial gamma-rays using ...
  • Distributed data acquisition system for Pachmarhi array of Cverenkov telescopes 
    Upadhya, S. S; Acharya, B. S; Bhat, P. N; Chitnis, V. R; D'Souza, A. I; Francis, P. J; Gothe, K. S; Joshi, S. R; Majumdar, P; Manogaran, M; Nagesh, B. K; Pose, M. S; Purohit, P. N; Rahman, M. A; Rao, K. K; Rao, S. K; Sharma, S. K; Singh, B. B; Stanislaus, A. J; Sudersanan, P. V; Venkatesh Murthy, B. L; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Pachmarhi Array of Cverenkov Telescopes consists of 25 Telescopes distributed within an area of 8000m2. The array was designed to detect and process faint Cverenkov light flashes that lasts for a few nanoseconds, produced ...
  • Estimation of vital shower parameters in wavefront sampling technique 
    Chitnis, V. R; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Wavefront sampling experiments record arrival times of Cverenkov photons with high precision at various locations in Cverenkov pool using a distributed array of telescopes. It was shown earlier that this photon front can ...
  • Fluctuations in Čerenkov photon density in extensive air showers 
    Chitnis, V. R; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1999)
    In the absence of a standard source of γ-rays or hadrons of known energy one has to study the details of production of Cerenkov light at the observation level only through detailed simulation studies. Recently such studies ...
  • Gamma ray and hadron generated Cverenkov photon spectra at various observation altitudes 
    Rahman, M. A; Bhat, P. N; Acharya, B. S; Chitnis, V. R; Majumdar, P; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    We have studied the propagation of Cverenkov photons generated by Very High Energy gamma-rays and hadrons in the atmosphere. Photon production height distributions derived from semi-empirical methods agree with those ...
  • Gamma-hadron separation using Cverenkov photon density fluctuations 
    Chitnis, V. R; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    In atmospheric Cverenkov technique gamma-rays are detected against abundant background produced by hadronic showers. In order to improve signal to noise ratio of the experiment, it is necessary to reject a significant ...
  • Ground-based Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy at Pachmarhi 
    Acharya, B. S; Bhat, P. N; D'Souza, A. I; Francis, J; Gothe, K. S; John, A. V; Joshi, S. R; Krishnaswamy, M. R; Mehta, S; Nagesh, B. K; Pereira, M. P; Purohit, P. N; Rao, K. S; Rao, M. V. S; Satyanarayana, G. P; Sudershanan, P. V; Upadhyaya, S. S; Venkateshamurthy, B. L; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 1996)
  • Longitudinal shower development and its signature at observation level 
    Chitnis, V. R; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    From a study of Cverenkov photon arrival times at various core distances at the observation level it has already been established that the photon front is well fitted with a spherical surface traveling at the speed of light ...
  • Morphological properties of short duration Gamma Ray Bursts 
    Gupta, V; Gupta, P. D; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2000)
    In this paper, we study a sample of short duration bursts contained in the 3B BATSE catalogue. We fit the time profiles of these GRBs with lognormal functions and study various temporal properties of these objects. In most ...
  • Multicolour broadband study of a lenticular galaxy : NGC 4753 
    Dewangan, G. C; Singh, K. P; Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2000)
    Based on VBT observations, we report multicolour broadband study of a lenticular galaxy, NGC 4753 with prominent dust lanes. The extinction curve derived for NGC 4753 is similar to the Galactic extinction curve. The dust ...
  • Optical counter-parts of Gamma Ray Bursts 
    Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2000)
    Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB'S) being the most energetic astronomical phenomena known to date still pose a formidable challenge to astronomers. The BATSE on board the Compton Observatory (CGRO) launched in 1991, has shown that ...
  • Pachmarhi array of Cerenkov telescopes 
    Bhat, P. N; Acharya, B. S; Chitnis, V. R; D'Souza, A. I; Francis, P. J; Gothe, K. S; John, A. V; Mazumdar, P; Nagesh, B. K; Purohit, P. N; Rahman, M. A; Rao, S. K; Rao, K. K; Sharma, S. K; Stanislaus, A. J; Sudershanan, P. V; Swamy, M. R. K; Upadhyaya, S. S; Murty, B. L. V (Astronomical Society of India, 2000)
    Pachmarhi Array of Cerenkov Telescopes (PACT) consisting of 25 telescopes has been installed at Pachmarhi (longitude : 76d 26' E, latitude : 22d 28' N and altitude : 1075m) recently. The telescopes are deployed in the form ...
  • Performance studies of the PACT experiment 
    Vishwanath, P. R; Acharya, B. S; Bhat, P. N; Chitnis, V. R; Majumdar, P; Rahman, M. A; Singh, B. B (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Monte Carlo calculations have been done to understand various characteristics like the energy threshold, collection area etc of the recently commissioned PACT. The energy threshold of the array for gamma rays is found to ...
  • Photometry of X-ray selected quasars from Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey 
    Singh, K. P; Bhat, P. N; Prabhu, T. P (Astronomical Society of India, 1993)
    We present a few photometric measurements of quasars in the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS). The measurements are a part of an ongoing program of CCD photometry of quasars in the southern sky and are based on ...
  • Surface photometry of ellipticals: Radio and cluster galaxies 
    Singh, K. P; Bhat, P. N; Prabhu, T. P; Kembhavi, A. K (Astronomical Society of India, 1993)
    Broad-band surface photometry in V, R and I colors is presented for three elliptical galaxies immersed in hot intracluster gas emitting X-rays due to thermal bremsstrahlung. The galaxies are (1) a cD galaxy, and (2) a radio ...
  • TeV Gamma-ray flares from Mkn 421 detected by the pachmarhi array of Cverenkov Telescopes 
    Bhat, P. N; Acharya, B. S; Chitnis, V. R; Majumdar, P; Rahman, M. A; Singh, B. B; Vishwanath, P. R (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Pachmarhi Array of Cverenkov Telescopes (PACT), based on wavefront sampling technique, has been used for detecting TeV gamma rays from galactic and extra-galactic ?-ray sources. The Blaar, Mkn 421 was one such extra-galactic ...
  • Wavefront sampling technique : VHE gamma-ray experiments in India 
    Bhat, P. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    Atmospheric Cverenkov techniques is the only method which has been successfully used to probe the sky in the TeV energy band. However it has certain intrinsic drawbacks arising primarily out of the presence of cosmic rays ...

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