IIA Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Design of an IR imaging channel for the Keck Observatory SCALES instrument 
    Banyal, R. K; Hasan, Armirul; Kupke, Reni; Varshney, Hari Mohan; Prakaesh, Ajin; Sivarani, T; Skemer, Andy J; MacDonald, Nick; Sallum, Steph; Deich, Will; Fitzgerald, Michael P; Govinda, K. V; Ratliff, Chris; Ramya, S; Stelter, Deno; Surya, Arun; Wang, Eric (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    A next-generation instrument named, Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (SCALES), is being planned for the W. M. Keck Observatory. SCALES will have an integral field spectrograph (IFS) and a ...
  • Towards the development of the Infrared Guide Star Catalogue for the adaptive optics observations by the Thirty Meter Telescope 
    Shah, Sarang; Subramanian, S; Anupama, G. C; Delgado, Francisco; Gillies, Kim; Maheswar, G; Narayanan, Rajalakshmi; Ramaprakash, A. N; Rao, Suhasini; Reddy, B. E; Skidmore, Warren; Sivarani, T; Subramaniam, A (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    At first light, the NIR instruments of TMT will be assisted by a multi-conjugate adaptive optics instrument, known as the Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS). NFIRAOS will use laser guide stars for ...
  • Aspects of Design and Development of a Near Infrared Photometer for Low Altitude Astronomical Sites 
    Anwesh Kumar, M (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2021-01)
    In order to fill the void of observation of bright near infrared astronomical sources, we propose a Near Infrared photometer operating from a low latitude astronomical site. As part of this thesis work, design decisions ...
  • Studies on metal-poor stars and chemical enrichment of the Galaxy 
    Shejeelammal, J (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2022-06)
    The low- and intermediate-mass stars are the major inhabitants of our Galaxy. They play an important role in the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. These stars have enriched the ISM with the products of various nucleosynthesis ...
  • High precision radial velocity studies on VBT echelle spectrograph 
    Sireesha, C (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2019-08)
    The Echelle spectrograph operating at Vainu Bappu Telescope (VBT) is a general-purpose instrument designed for high-resolution spectroscopy. It was considered for precision Radial Velocity (RV) measurements without altering ...
  • Host galaxy magnitude of OJ 287 from its colours at minimum light 
    Valtonen, Mauri J; Dey, Lankeswar; Zola, S; Ciprini, S; Kidger, M; Pursimo, T; Gopakumar, A; Matsumoto, K; Sadakane, K; Caton, D. B; Nilsson, K; Komossa, S; Bagaglia, M; Baransky, A; Boumis, P; Boyd, D; Castro-Tirado, A. J; Debski, B; Drozdz, M; Perez, A. Escartin; Fiorucci, M; Garcia, F; Gazeas, K; Ghosh, S; Godunova, V; Gomez, J. L; Gredel, R; Grupe, D; Haislip, J. B; Henning, T; Hurst, G; Janík, J; Kouprianov, V. V; Lehto, H; Liakos, A; Mathur, S; Mugrauer, M; Nogues, R. Naves; Nucciarelli, G; Ogloza, W; Ojha, D. K; Pajdosz-Śmierciak, U; Pascolini, S; Poyner, G; Reichart, D. E; Rizzi, N; Roncella, F; Sahu, D. K; Sillanpää, A; Simon, A; Siwak, M; Alfaro, F. C. Soldán; Sonbas, E; Tosti, G; Vasylenko, V; Webb, J. R; Zielinski, P (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-08)
    OJ 287 is a BL Lacertae type quasar in which the active galactic nucleus (AGN) outshines the host galaxy by an order of magnitude. The only exception to this may be at minimum light when the AGN activity is so low that ...
  • Growth of disc-like pseudo-bulges in SDSS DR7 since z = 0.1 
    Ankit Kumar; Kataria, Sandeep Kumar (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-08)
    Cosmological simulations predict more classical bulges than their observational counterparts in the local Universe. Here, we quantify evolution of the bulges since z = 0.1 using photometric parameters of nearly 39 000 ...

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