Speaker
Dr
Shashikiran Ganesh
(Physical Research Laboratory, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, 380 009, India)
Description
A common theme running through our work using facilities at Mount Abu IR Observatory (MIRO) and the IR archival data from surveys such as ISOGAL, DENIS, 2MASS, GLIMPSE etc. is that of 'dust'. We have studied the dust constituting the cometary comae for various comets over the last 2 to 3 decades using an optical photo-polarimeter on telescopes in India (at Mount Abu and earlier at Nainital as well as Kavalur). As far as the archival data is concerned, we have worked on the ISOGAL, DENIS, 2MASS and GLIMPSE datasets to study the Galactic plane - particularly the extinction due to interstellar dust. Some results from both these scales will be discussed in the presentation.
Primary author
Dr
Shashikiran Ganesh
(Physical Research Laboratory, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, 380 009, India)
