ASI-2017 Parallel Sessions: Wednesday, 8 March, 2017
Total time for Invited talks - 30m, Contributed talks - 15m
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Hall A | ||
| Sun and the Solar System - III [Chairperson: Nandita Srivastava] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Bhavesh Jaiswal | Spectro-polarimetry of the limb of the Martian atmosphere: simulations based on a radiative transfer model | |
| Naznin R. Choudhury | Study of porous grains and related properties of cometary dust | |
| Alok Ranjan Tiwary | Imaging Spectro-polarimeter for Multi Application Solar Telescope (MAST): Preliminary Results Obtained in the Fe I 617.3 nm and Ca II 854.2 nm. | |
| Bimal Pandey | Multiwavelength Analysis of a typical prominence with helical twisting associated with a CME | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Hall B | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy III [Chairperson: Indulekha Kavila] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Priya Hasan | A tale of two Populations: NGC 281 | |
| Bryan Rithesh Miranda | Detecting UV bright stellar population in Open Cluster Remnants | |
| Neelam Panwar | Stellar content and mass function of the cluster Be 59 towards the low-mass end | |
| Sindhu N | How hot are Blue Stragglers? | |
| Snehalata Sahu | UVIT Imaging of the globular cluster NGC 288 | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Hall C | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy-III [Chairperson: Preeti Kharb] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Vikram Khaire | Helium Reionization and Spectral Energy Distribution of Quasars | |
| Sachin P C | Detection of Two Intervening Ne VIII Absorbers Probing Warm-Hot Gas at z > 0 | |
| Kanak Saha | ASTRoSAT/UVIT deep observation of HST/Chandra Deep Field South | |
| Konstantinos Kolokythas | The Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample: Radio properties and feedback implications of galaxy groups in the Local Universe | |
| Abhirup Datta | Understanding Merger Activities in Galaxy Clusters Using High Fidelity X-ray Temperature Maps and Radio Observations | |
| Pooja Bhattacharjee | Searching for signatures of dark matter annihilation from Triangulum II using FERMI gamma ray data | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Hall D | ||
| Instrumentation and Techniques II [Chairperson: P. Sreekumar] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Sagar Godambe | Performance evaluation of prototype imaging camera for the MACE telescope | |
| Shiv Kumar Goyal | Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) - subsystem of ASPEX payload, onboard Aditya-L1 mission | |
| K. Sankarasubramanian | A Novel Spectroscopic Concept for High Time Cadence Velocity Measurements | |
| Ritabrata Sarkar | Low Cost Exploration of Space Using Weather Balloon Borne X-ray Detectors | |
| Varun Kumar | Analysis and design of planar flexible inductor for segment edge sensing in Segmented Mirror Telescopes | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 14:30 - 16.00 Venue: Hall A | ||
| Sun and the Solar System - IV [Chairperson: Nandita Srivastava] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Girjesh R Gupta | Heating and cooling of coronal loop observed during a micro-flare with IRIS, SDO, and XRT | |
| Sanjay Kumar | On The Role Of Repetitive Magnetic Reconnections In Evolution Of Magnetic Flux Ropes In Solar Corona | |
| Abhishek Kumar Srivastava | Coronal EUV Waves and Their Interaction with the Localized Magnetic Structures | |
| Tomin K James | Energetics of small electron acceleration episodes in the solar corona | |
| Abhishek Johri | Acceleration and evolution of solar energetic particle events in the Sun-Earth distance | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 14:30 - 16.00 Venue: Hall B | ||
| Stars, ISM and the Galaxy IV [Chairperson: Indulekha Kavila] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Vishal Joshi | Near-infrared studies of Novae: Highlights of recent results (I) | |
| Nirupam Roy | Radio monitoring of Galactic novae: highlights of recent results | |
| Prasanta Bera | Spectral and timing properties of the magnetic CVs | |
| N Kameswar Rao | UVIT -- A nnew Tool for the Study of Planetary Nebulae iUV | |
| Ananta Charan Pradhan | The GALEX observations of planetary nebulae | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 14:30 - 16.00 Venue: Hall C | ||
| Extragalactic Astronomy-IV [Chairperson: Preeti Kharb] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Sumana Nandi | A misaligned double-double radio galaxy hosted by a binary supermassive black hole system | |
| Chiranjib Konar | Episodic Radio Galaxies and Mode of Accretion in Them | |
| Pratik Dabhade | SAGAN - Search & Analysis of GRGs with Associated Nuclei | |
| Viral Parekh | Early results of uGMRT observations of diffuse radio sources | |
| Ananda Hota | First results from the GMRT Observation of Objects Discovered by RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (GOOD-RAC) | |
| Wednesday, 8 March, 2017 Time: 14:30 - 16.00 Venue: Hall D | ||
| General Relativity and Cosmology II [Chairperson: Somak Roychowdhury] | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| Abhirup Ghosh | CTesting general relativity using gravitational wave signals from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes | |
| Krishnendu N. V. | Testing the binary black hole nature of compact binary coalescences using gravitational wave observations | |
| Gayathri V. | Wavelet-based search of coalescing compact binaries with GW detectors | |
| Bhal Chandra Joshi | Radio Pulsars, gravity and an Indian Pulsar Timing Array | |
| Prerna Rana | Dynamics of bound orbits in Kerr geometry and QPO frequency ratios | |