IIA Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

  • A faster growth of perturbations in an early matter dominated epoch: primordial black holes and gravitational waves 
    Das, Subinoy; Maharana, Anshuman; Muia, Francesco (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-09)
    We present a scenario for fast growth of cosmological perturbations; δ(t) ∼ a(t)s, a(t) being the scale factor, with s > 10 for the numerical examples reported in this article. The basic ingredients of the scenario are an ...
  • Simultaneous X-ray/UV Observations of Ultraluminous X-ray Source Holmberg II X-1 with Indian Space Mission Astrosat 
    Vinokurov, A; Atapin, K; Bordoloi, O. P; Sarkisyan, A; Kashyap, U; Chakraborty, M; Rahna, P. T; Kostenkov, A; Solovyeva, Y; Fabrika, S; Safonova, M; Gogoi, R; Sutaria, F. K; Murthy, J (Springer, 2022-09)
    We present the results of eight epochs of simultaneous UV and X-ray observations of the highly variable ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) Holmberg II X-1 with AstroSat—Indian multiwavelength space satellite. During the ...
  • Investigation of rocket effect in bright-rimmed clouds using Gaia EDR3 
    Saha, Piyali; Maheswar, G; Ojha, D. K; Baug, Tapas; Neha, Sharma (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-09)
    Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) are excellent laboratories to explore the radiation-driven implosion mode of star formation because they show evidence of triggered star formation. In our previous study, BRC 18 has been found ...
  • Evolution of Hen 3-1357, the Stingray Nebula 
    Pena, Miriam; Parthasarathy, M; Ruiz-Escobedo, Francisco (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-09)
    The spectroscopic evolution of Hen 3-1357, the Stingray Nebula, is presented by analysing data from 1990 to 2021. High-resolution data obtained in 2021 with South African Large Telescope High Resolution Spectrograph and ...
  • Optical observations and dust modelling of comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR 
    Aravind, K; Halder, Prithish; Ganesh, Shashikiran; Sahu, D. K; Serra-Ricart, Miquel; Chambo, Jose J; Angchuk, D; Sivarani, T (Elsevier B.V., 2022-09-01)
    Comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR is a short period Jupiter family comet with an orbital period of 6.44 years. The results from spectroscopic, photometric, polarimetric observations and dust modelling studies are presented here. ...
  • Investigation of the rotational lines of A–X and C–A band systems of aluminium deuteride molecule using sunspot umbral spectra 
    Shanmugapriya, G; Karthikeyan, B; Rajamanickam, N; Bagare, S. P (Springer, 2022-09)
    A high-resolution sunspot umbra spectrum recorded in National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak, in the visible and infrared wave number range was used to search the rotational lines of A 1Π–X 1Σ+ (0,0), (0,0), (1,0), (1,1), ...
  • TANSPEC: TIFR-ARIES Near-infrared Spectrometer 
    Sharma, Saurabh; Ojha, Devendra. K; Ghosh, Arpan; Ninan, Joe. P; Ghosh, Supriyo; Ghosh, Swarna. K; Manoj, P; Naik, Milind. B; D'Costa, Savio, L. A; Reddy, B. Krishna; Nanjappa, Nandish; Pandey, Rakesh; Sinha, Tirthendu; Panwar, Neelam; Susmitha, A; Kaur, Harmeen; Sahu, Sanjit; Bangia, Tarun; Poojary, Satheesha S; Jadhav, Rajesh. B; Bhagat, Shailesh. B; Meshram, Ganesh. S; Shah, Harshit; Rayner, John. T; Toome, Douglas. W; Sandimani, Pradeep. R (IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2022-08)
    We present the design and performance of the TANSPEC, a medium-resolution 0.55–2.5 μm cryogenic spectrometer and imager, now in operation at the 3.6 m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Nainital, India. The TANSPEC provides ...
  • On the Bianchi identity in generalized theories of gravity 
    Kolekar, Sanved (Springer, 2022-08)
    We examine the generalised Bianchi identity, ∇a Eab = 0 where Eab is the equation of motion tensor of a general class of theories of gravity whose Lagrangian L(gab, Ra bcd ) depends arbitrarily on gab and Ra bcd but ...
  • The near ultraviolet transient surveyor (NUTS): An ultraviolet telescope to observe variable sources 
    Ambily, S; Sarpotda, Mayuresh; Mathew, Joice; Binukumar, G; Sreejith, A. G; Nirmal, K; Murthy, J; Safonova, M; Mohan, Rekhesh; Aggarval, Vinod Kumar; Nagabhushanam, S; Jeeragal, Sachin (Springer, 2022-08)
    Observing the ultraviolet (UV) sky for time-varyiable phenomena is one of the many exciting science goals that can be achieved by a relatively small aperture telescope in space. The Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor ...
  • The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package 
    The Astropy Collaboration; Price-Whelan, Adrian M; Lim, Pey Lian; Earl, Nicholas; Starkman, Nathaniel; Bradley, Larry; Shupe, David L; Patil, Aarya A; Corrales, Lia; Brasseur, C. E; Nothe, Maximilian; Singer, Leo P; Singhal, Jaladh; Sinha, Manodeep; Sipocz, Brigitta M; Spitler, Lee R; Stansby, David; Streicher, Ole; Sumak, Jani; Tollerud, Erik; Swinbank, John D; Paper Authors; Taranu, Dan S; Tewary, Nikita; Tremblay, Grant R; Val-Borro, Miguel de; Kooten, Samuel J. Van; Vasovic, Zlatan; Verm, Shresth; Cardoso, Jose Vinícius de Miranda; Williams, Peter K. G; Morris, Brett M; Aldcroft, Thomas L; Wilson, Tom J; Winkel, Benjamin; Wood-Vasey, W. M; Xue, Rui; Yoachim, Peter; Zhang, Chen; Zonca, Andrea; Astropy Project Contributors; Ginsburg, Adam; Vaher, Eero; Alvarado-Montes, Jaime A; Weaver, Benjamin A; Tocknell, James; Jamieson, William; Kerkwijk, Marten H. van; Robitaille, Thomas P.; Merry, Bruce; Bachetti, Matteo; Gunthe, H. Moritz; Archibald, Anne M; Bodi, Attila; Bapat, Shreyas; Barentsen, Geert; Bazan, Juanjo; Biswas, Manish; Boquien, Mederic; Handberg, Rasmus; Burke, D. J; Cara, Daria; Cara, Mihai; Conroy, Kyle E; Conseil, Simon; Craig, Matthew W; Cross, Robert M; Cruz, Kelle L; D'Eugenio, Francesco; Dencheva, Nadia; Hart, Akeem; Devillepoix, Hadrien A. R; Dietrich, Jorg P; Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis; Erben, Thomas; Ferreira, Leonardo; Foreman-Macke, Daniel; Fox, Ryan; Freij, Nabil; Garg, Suyog; Geda, Robel; Hatfield-Dodds, Zac; Glattly, Lauren; Gondhalekar, Yash; Gordon, Karl D; Grant, David; Greenfield, Perry; Groener, Austen M; Guest, Steve; Gurovich, Sebastian; Homeier, Derek; Hosseinzadeh, Griffin; Jenness, Tim; Jones, Craig K; Joseph, P; Kalmba, J. Bryce; Karamehmetoglu, Emir; Salgado, Jesus; Kałuszynski, Mikołaj; Kelley, Michael S. P; Kern, Nicholas; Kerzendor, Wolfgang E; Koch, Eric W; Kulumani, Shankar; Lee, Antony; Ly, Chun; M, Zhiyuan; MacBride, Conor; Sanghi, Aniket; Maljaars, Jakob M; Muna, Demitri; Murphy, N. A; Norman, Henrik; O'Steen, Richard; Oman, Kyle A; Pacifici, Camilla; Pascual, Sergio; Pascual-Granado, J; Patil, Rohit R; Saunders, Nicholas; Perren, Gabriel I; Pickering, Timothy E; Rastogi, Tanuj; Roulston, Benjamin R; Ryan, Daniel F; Rykoff, Eli S; Sabater, Jose; Sakurikar, Parikshit; Savchenko, Volodymyr; Schwardt, Ludwig; Seifert-Eckert, Michael; Shih, Albert Y; Jain, Anany Shrey; Shukla, Gyanendra; Sick, Jonathan; Donath, Axel; Simpson, Chris; Singanamalla, Sudheesh (American Astronomical Society, 2022-08-20)
    The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. A key element of the Astropy Project ...
  • SCALES on Keck: optical design 
    Kupke, Renate; Stelter, R. Deno; Hasan, Amirul; Surya, Arun; Kain, Isabel; Briesemeister, Zackery; Li, Jialin; Hinz, Phil; Skemer, Andrew; Gerard, Benjamin; Dillon, Daren; Ratliff, Christopher (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    SCALES is a high-contrast, infrared coronagraphic imager and integral field spectrograph (IFS) to be deployed behind the W.M. Keck Observatory adaptive optics system. A reflective optical design allows diffraction-limited ...
  • Design and development of WFOS, the Wide-Field Optical Spectrograph for the Thirty Meter Telescope 
    Steidel, Charles; Peng, Eric; Fucik, Jason; Nash, Reston; Kaye, Stephen; Jacoby, George; Delabre, Bernard; Ramya, S; Divakar, Devika; Varshney, Hari Mohan; Sivarani, T; Uraguchi, Fumihiro; Ozaki, Shinobu; Ji, Hangxin; Tao, L V; Chiu, Kent; Zhu, Qinfeng; Andersen, David; Miles, John; Lasi, Davide (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    We present the current design of WFOS, a wide-field UV/optical (0.31-1.0 µm) imaging spectrograph planned for first-light on the TMT International Observatory 30 m telescope. WFOS is optimized for high sensitivity across ...
  • Design of SCALES: a 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph for Keck Observatory 
    Skemer, Andrew J; Stelter, R. Deno; Sallum, Stephanie; MacDonald, Nicholas; Kupke, Renate; Ratliff, Christopher; Banyal, R. K; Hasan, Amirul; Varshney, Hari Mohan; Surya, Arun; Prakaesh, Ajin; Sivarani, T; Ramya, S; Govinda, K. V; Fitzgerald, Michael P; Wang, Eric; Kassis, Marc; Absil, Olivier; Alvarez, Carlos; Batalha, Natasha; Boucher, Marc-Andre; Bourgenot, Cyril; Brandt, Timothy; Briesemeister, Zackery; Kleer, Katherine de; Pater, Imke de; Deich, William; Divakar, Devika; Filion, Guillaume; Gauvin, Etienne; Gonzales, Michael; Greene, Thomas; Hinz, Philip; Jensen-Clem, Rebecca; Johnson, Christopher; Kain, Isabel; Kruglikov, Gabriel; Lach, Mackenzie; Landry, Jean-Thomas; Li, Jialin; Liu, Michael C; Lyke, James; Magnon, Kenneth; Marin, Eduardo; Martin, Emily; Martinez, Raquel; Mawet, Dimitri; Miles, Brittany; Sandford, Dale; Sheehan, Patrick; Sohn, Ji Man; Stone, Jordan (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    We present the design of SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) a new 2-5 micron coronagraphic integral field spectrograph under construction for Keck Observatory. SCALES enables ...
  • Innovations and advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory, vol. II 
    Kassis, Marc F; Allen, Steve; Alvarez, Carlos; Banyal, R. K; Bertz, Robert; Beichman, Charles; Brown, Aaron; Brown, Matthew; Cabak, Gerald; Bundy, Kevin; Cetre, Sylvain; Chin, Jason; Chun, Mark; Deich, Will; Dekany, Richard; Delorme, Jacques; Devenot, Mark; Doppmann, Greg; Fitzgerald, Michael P; Fucik, Jason R; Hill, Grant; Hinz, Philip; Holden, Bradford P; Howard, Andrew; Gao, Maodong; Gibson, Steve; Gomez, Percy; Gottschalk, Colby; Gillingham, Peter R; Jones, Tucker; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Kirby, Evan; Konopacky, Quinn; Krishnan, Shanti; Kupke, Renate; Larkin, James E.; Leife, Stephanie D; Lewis, Hilton A; Lilley, Scott; Lu, Jessica; Lyk, James E; MacDonald, Nick; Marin, Eduardo; Matuszewski, Matt; Mawet, Dimitri; McGurk, Rosalie; A Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell; Nash, Reston B; Nance, Craig; Neill, James D; M. O'Meara, John; Peretz, Eliad; Poppett, Claire L; Mather, John C; Radovan, Matthew V; Roberts, Mitsuko K; Ragland, Sam; Rider, Kodi; Rockosi, Constance M; Sandfor, Dale; Shen, Boqiang; Steidel, Charles C; Simha, Sunil; Skemer, Andy; Stelter, Deno; Surendran, Avinash; Thorne, James; McCarney, Ben; Lanclos, Kyle; Baker, Ashley; Rubenzah, Ryan; Roy, Arpita; Halverson, Sam; Edelstein, Jerry; Martin, Christopher; Savage, Maureen; Sandford, Dale; Sallum, Stephanie; Walawender, Josh; Wizinowich, Peter; Westfall, Kyle B; Vahala, Kerry J; Wright, Shelley; Wold, Truman; Yeh, Sherry (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    Since the start of science operations in 1993, the twin 10-meter W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) telescopes have continued to maximize their scientific impact and to produce transformative discoveries that keep the observing ...
  • Study on segmentation and alignment related effects in a 10m class telescope 
    Jacob, A; Parihar, P. S; James, Melvin K; Radhika, Dharmadhikari (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    Indian astronomers are aiming to build a large 10m class optical-NIR telescope, equipped with state-of art instruments. After exploring many potential design options, we ended up with two mirror Ritchey-Chretien (RC) type ...
  • Design and development of a mirror support system for prototype segmented mirror telescope 
    Govinda, K. V; Parihar, P. S; Kemkar, P. M. M; Goudar, Abhishek; Sandeep, D. S; Muthahar, R. Mohammed; Sagayanathan, K; Radhika, Dharmadhikari; Divya, P. H (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    The segment support system of any segmented mirror telescope is considered to be one of the most critical subsystem. The segment support not only holds the mirror without altering its figure, but also features mechanism ...
  • The 50cm robotic telescope: control system upgrade and automation 
    Stanzin, Tsewang; Jorphail, S; Parihar, P. S; Angchuk, D; Dorjai, T; Gyalson, T; Mahey, T. T; Dorjay, Padma; Dorjay, Phuntsok; Phunchok, Tsewang; Pamber, Tashi; Stanzin, Urgain; Angdu, Skalzang (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    We describe the details into the design and development of a low-cost yet efficient telescope control system (TCS) and observatory control software (OCS) for the 50cm telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory. The ...
  • A tip-tilt correction system for the 30-inch telescope 
    Parvathy, M (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2022-07)
    Atmospheric turbulence degrades the image formed by ground-based telescopes. It causes the image to be spread over a large area known as the seeing-disk in a typical long exposure. In a short exposure, the image is spread ...
  • Design and development of a digital micromirror device (DMD) based multi-object spectrograph (MOS) for the Indian spectroscopic and imaging space telescope (INSIST) 
    Jaini, Akhil (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2022-07)
    The coming decade in astronomy focuses on large widefield imaging and spectroscopic surveys. No widefield imaging facility extends to the UV region, which represents an important window into a wide variety of astrophysical ...
  • Design and Development of DMD Controller Interface for INSIST 
    Jain, Shubhangi (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2022-07)
    The INSIST (Indian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope) is a UV-optical 1m class telescope expected to produce high quality imaging and moderate resolution spectra of astronomical sources. A DMD is an optical ...

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