Dr
Santosh Joshi
(ARIES, Nainital)
12/10/2017, 10:00
Talk
The Nainital-Cape Survey is a dedicated survey programme initiated in 1999 in the coordination of the astronomers from ARIES Nainital and ISRO Bangalore with aims to search for new roAp stars and pulsating Am stars in the northern and southern hemisphere, and perform asteroseismic studies to understand their internal structure and evolution. The candidate stars were selected on the basis of...
Dr
Yogesh Joshi
(Scientist ARIES)
12/10/2017, 10:40
Talk
Long-term microlensing projects with small telescopes have been going on for a long time across the globe. Although these surveys have been successful in detecting many microlensing events, their success lie in the detection of thousands of variable stars from the large data set gathered over a period of time. One such survey has been carried out towards M31 with a 1-m telescope for four years...
Dr
Shashikiran Ganesh
(Physical Research Laboratory, Navarangpura, Ahmedabad, 380 009, India)
12/10/2017, 11:40
Talk
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...
Dr
Yogesh Joshi
(Scientist ARIES)
12/10/2017, 12:20
Talk
The Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) was activated on 30 March 2016 and released for the science observations to the national and international scientific community in March 2017. Initially two main instruments, one CCD Imager and other infra-red camera TIRCAM2 are made available on the main ports of the 3.6-m telescope and scientific observations are successfully being carried out through...
