IIA Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

  • SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries 
    Andrews, Jennifer E.; Sand, D. J.; Valenti, S.; Smith, Nathan; Dastidar, Raya; Sahu, D. K; Misra, Kuntal; Singh, A; Hiramatsu, D; Brown, P. J.; Hosseinzadeh, G.; Wyatt, S.; Vinko, J.; Anupama, G. C; & 62 Co-authors (IOP Publishing, 2019-12)
    We present high-cadence UV, optical, and near-infrared data on the luminous Type II-P supernova SN 2017gmr from hours after discovery through the fi rst 180 days. SN 2017gmr does not show signs of narrow, ...
  • The intrinsic reddening of the magellanic clouds as traced by background galaxies – I. The bar and outskirts of the small magellanic cloud 
    Bell, Cameron P. M; Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.; Wright, A. H; Rubele, Stefano; Nidever, David L.; Tatton, Ben L; van Loon, Jacco Th.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Subramanian, S; Oliveira, Joana M; Grijs, Richard de; Pennock, Clara M.; Choi, Yumi; Olsen, Knut; Niederhofer, Florian; Choudhury, Samyaday; Delgado, David Mart ́ınez; Munoz, Ricardo R. (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-12)
    We present a method to map the total intrinsic reddening of a foreground extinguish- ing medium via the analysis of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of background galaxies. In this pilot study, we implement ...
  • Detection of fluorine in hot extreme helium stars 
    Bhowmick, A; Pandey, G; Lambert, D. L (IOP Publishing, 2020-03-01)
    The main objective of this paper is to explore abundances of fluorine in hot Extreme Helium Stars (EHes). Overabundance of fluorine is a chara cteristic feature for cool EHes and R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars and ...
  • Morphology of CMB fields—effect of weak gravitational lensing 
    Goyal, Priya; Pravabati, C; Appleby, S (IOP Publishing, 2020-02)
    We study the morphology of the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization fields using the shape and alignment parameters, β and α, that are constructed from the contour Minkowski tensor. The primary goal of ...
  • Estimation and correction of the instrumental perturbations of Vainu Bappu Telescope Echelle spectrograph using a model-based approach 
    Chamarthi, Sireesha; Banyal, R. K; Sriram, S (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2019-11)
    The Echelle spectrograph operating at Vainu Bappu Telescope (VBT), India, is a general purpose instrument used for many high-resolution spectroscopic observations. A concerted effort is being made to expand the scientific ...
  • Nearly Century-scale Variation of the Sun’s Radius 
    Hiremath, K. M; Rozelot, J. P; Sarp, V; Kilcik, A; Pavan, D. G; Gurumath, S. R (IOP Publishing, 2020-03-10)
    The Kodaikanal Archive Program (India) is now available to the scientific community in digital form as daily digitized solar white light pictures, from 1923 to 2011. We present here the solar radius data, obtained after a ...
  • CS Depletion in Prestellar Cores 
    Kim, Shinyoung; Lee, Chang Won; Maheswar, G; Tafalla, Mario; Sohn, Jungjoo; Kim, Gwanjeong; Kim, Mi-Ryang; Archana Soam; Myers, P. C (IOP Publishing, 2020-03-10)
    The CS molecule is known to be adsorbed onto dust in cold and dense conditions, causing it to be significantly depleted in the central region of cores. This study is aimed to investigate the depletion of the CS molecule ...
  • Morphology of 21cm brightness temperature during the Epoch of Reionization using Contour Minkowski Tensor 
    Akanksha, K; Pravabati, C; Appleby, S (IOP Publishing, 2019-09)
    We use morphological descriptors, Betti numbers and Contour Minkowski Tensor (CMT) on 21cm brightness temperature excursion sets, to study the ionization and heating history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during and ...
  • Time-latitude distribution of prominences for 10 solar cycles: a study using Kodaikanal, Meudon, and Kanzelhohe data 
    Chatterjee, S; Manjunath, H; Banerjee, D; Ravindra, B; McIntosh, Scott W (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020-03)
    Solar prominences are structures of importance because of their role in polar field reversal. We study the long-term variation of the time latitude distribution of solar prominences in this article. To accomplish this, ...
  • Chasing the Total Solar Eclipse 2019 
    Kapoor, R. C (NISCAIR-CSIR, India, 2019-09)
    A solar eclipse with a totality of a rather long duration took place on 2 July 2019. The path of totality started east of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean and passed over parts of Chile and Argentina. The maximum ...
  • Fizeau mask interferometry of solar features using the multi-application solar telescope at the udaipur solar observatory 
    Bayanna, A. R; Venkatakrishnan, P; Rengaswamy, S; Mathew, S. K. (Springer, 2020-02)
    Efforts are made to demonstrate high-resolution observations of the solar atmosphere using spatial interferometry. Covering the telescope pupil with a Fizeau mask consisting of two small circular apertures separated by a ...
  • Connecting galaxy structure and star formation: the role of environment in formation of S0 galaxies 
    Mishra, K. P; Wadadekar, Y; Barway, Sudhanshu (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-08)
    In this work, we investigate the reason behind the increased occurrence of S0 galaxies in high-density environments. Our sample comprises of ∼2500 spiral and ∼2000 S0 galaxies spanning a wide range of environments. Dividing ...
  • Radio emission from pulsars due to relativistic plasma 
    Roy, Tridib; Gangadhara, R. T. (IOP Publishing, 2019-07)
    Pulsar radio emission is not well understood because of a lack of knowledge about the emission geometry and the plasma process involved. We develop a mechanism for pulsar radio emission that takes into account the ...
  • Mean field solar surface dynamo in the presence of partially ionized plasmas and sub-surface shear layer 
    Paradkar, B. S; Chitre, S. M; Krishan, V (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-09)
    A non-linear α − Ω dynamo in the partially ionized turbulent plasma in the presence of sub-surface velocity shear is studied with mean-field electrodynamics. Such a dynamo is probably operational in the near-surface region ...
  • Binary star detection in the open cluster King 1 field 
    Saleh, P. R; Hazarika, D; Dar, A. A; Parihar, P. S; Saikia, E (IOP Publishing, 2020-03)
    A rarely studied open cluster, King 1 is observed using the 1.3-m telescope equipped with a 2k × 4k CCD at Vainu Bappu Observatory, India. We analyze the photometric data obtained from CCD observations in both B and V ...
  • Characterizing the companion AGBs using surface chemical composition of barium stars 
    Shejeelammal, J; Goswami, A; Goswami, P. P; Rathour, R. S; Masseron, T (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020-10)
    Barium stars are one of the important probes to understand the o rigin and evolution of slow neutron-capture process elements in the Galaxy. These are e xtrinsic stars, where the observed s-process element abundances ...
  • VHE gamma-ray observation of Crab Nebula with HAGAR telescope array 
    Singh, B. B; Britto, R. J; Chitnis, V. R; Shukla, A; Saha, L; Sinha, A; Acharya, B. S; Vishwanath, P. R; Anupama, G. C; Bhattacharjee, P; Gothe, K .S; Nagesh, B. K; Prabhu, T. P; Rao, S. K; Srinivasan, R; Upadhya, S. S (Springer, 2019-12)
    HAGAR is a system of seven Non-imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located at Hanle in the Ladakh region of the Indian Himalay as at an altitude of 4270 meters amsl . Since 2008, we have observed the Crab Nebula to ...
  • On observations of the Great Comet of 1807 (C/1807 R1) from India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2019-04)
    Captain John Warren, the Acting Astronomer at Madras Observatory between 1805 and 1811, observed the Great Comet of 1807 (now C/1807 R1) and computed its orbit. He wrote up his observations in a paper titled ―An account ...
  • John Warren's unpublished observations of the Great Comet of 1811 from India 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2019-04)
    Captain John Warren was the Acting Astronomer of Madras Observatory during the years 1805‒1811 when the Astronomer John Goldingham went to England on leave. At Madras, Warren observed the Great Comet of 1807 (C/1807 R1), ...
  • On two seventeenth century Persian paintings depicting comets or fireballs 
    Kapoor, R. C (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, 2019-08)
    In the Theodore M. Davis Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York there are two seventeenth century Persian paintings by Muhammad Zaman and Ali Quli Jubbahdar that depict comets or fireballs. From the ...

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