A Workshop on
Current Trends in
Near Infrared Astronomy in India
Scientific Programme
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
8:30 – 9:45
Registration
9:45 – 10:00
Introduction, Welcome, Inauguration
10:00 – 10:30
Near Infrared Astronomy in India
10:30 – 11:00
B. G. Anandarao
HIGH TEA
Session 1 : Star Formation and Interstellar Medium
11:00 – 11:25
11:25 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:15
12:15 – 12:40
12:40 – 14:00
(Chairperson: S. K. Ghosh)
Triggered Star Formation
Anil Pandey
Understanding the Role of Filaments in Star and
Manash Samal
Cluster Formation
An Infrared Insight into Dense Cores in Massive
Sarita Vig
Star Formation
Astrochemistry in the Optical – Near Infrared
Bhaswati Mookerjea
Wavelengths
Lunch Break and Poster Session
Session 2 : Star Formation and Interstellar Medium
14:00 – 14:25
14:25 – 14:45
14:45 – 15:05
15:05 – 15:25
15:25 – 15:50
15:50 – 16:20
(Chairperson: Anandmayee Tej)
Near Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of
Protostars and Protoplanetary Disks
FU Ori Type Outburst Sources in Young Low
Mass Stars
Optical Spectroscopy of X-ray Sources in the
Carina Nebula
Star Formation in NGC 3293
Structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud as
estimated from NIR Photometry
Tea / Coffee Break
Manoj Puravankara
Joe Philip Ninan
Kaushar Vaidya
Priya Hasan
Annapurni
Subramaniam
Session 3: Interstellar and Circumstellar Dust, Lunar Occultation Technique
16:20 – 16:45
16:45 – 17:10
17:10 – 17:30
19:00
(Chairperson: Bhaswati Mookerjea)
Circumstellar Dust Models for NIR Spectra of
IRAS Objects
Star Formation in Dark Clouds and the Role of
NIR Polarimetry
Spatial Asymmetry Detected in UZ Arietis using
Lunar Occultation
Ranjan Gupta
Asoke K. Sen
Tapas Baug
Workshop Banquet (Alankrita Resort)
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Session 4 : Late Type Stars, Extra-Solar Planets, Brown Dwarfs
9:45 – 10:10
10:10 – 10:30
10:30 – 10:50
10:50 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
(Chairperson: Ranjan Gupta)
On the Distance Scale using NIR
Period – Luminosity Relations for Cepheids
Photometric Variability in Ultra-cool Dwarfs:
Understanding of Evolving Weather Patterns
Low Mass Eclipsing Binaries
Near Infrared Spectro-polarimetry of Brown
Dwarfs and Exoplanets
Tea / Coffee Break
H. P. Singh
Soumen Mondal
Priyanka Chaturvedi
Sujan Sengupta
Session 5 : AGN, QSOs
11:45 – 12:05
12:05 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:45
(Chairperson: C. S. Stalin)
On the Nature of Weak Emission Line RadioQuiet Quasars
NIR Observations of High-z QSOs
Hum Chand
R. Srianand
Lunch Break and Poster Session
Session 6 : Novae and Supernovae
14:25 – 14:50
(Chairperson: U. S. Kamath)
Near Infrared Studies of Novae
Observing the Shock Wave during 2014
Outburst of Recurrent Nova v745 Sco
Near Infrared Properties of Supernovae
14:50 - 15:10
Optical and NIR Observations of SN 2014J
13:45 – 14:05
14:05 – 14:25
15:10 – 15:30
R. K. Das
Vishal Joshi
D. K. Sahu
Shubham Srivastav
Tea / Coffee Break
Session 7 : Existing Instrumentation
15:30 – 15:55
15:55 – 16:20
16:20 – 16:45
16:45 – 17:10
(Chairperson: A. N. Ramaprakash)
TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager
(TIRSPEC)
PRL Near Infrared Camera / Spectrometer –
Performance and First Results
Hanle Echelle Spectrograph (HESP) and
possible synergy with TIRSPEC
Subaru NIR Instruments
D. K. Ojha
N. M. Ashok
T. Sivarani
N. Kobayashi
17:10 – 18:00
Visits to Labs and Balloon Production Facility
18:00 – 19:30
Practical Session for Students (NIR Spectroscopic Data Reduction)
19:30
Dinner
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Session 8 : Future Instrumentation
9:15 – 9:30
9:30 – 9:50
9:50 - 10:15
10:15 – 10:40
10:40 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:15
(Chairperson: B. G. Anandarao)
Mid-IR Imager for HCT
TANSPEC – TIFR-ARIES Near Infrared
Spectrograph
Planned Near-IR Instruments for the Thirty
Metre Telescope
A Brief Overview of TMT Science Cases
Wavelength Calibration for Optical and NIR
Astronomy
Tea / Coffee Break
U. S. Kamath
Saurabh
A. N. Ramaprakash
G. C. Anupama
R. K. Banyal
Session 9 : Future Instrumentation
S. K. Ghosh
11:40 – 12:05
(Chairperson: A. K. Pandey)
Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS)
experiment
3.6m aperture Devasthal Optical Telescope
12:05 – 12:30
The PRL 2.5m Telescope
Abhijit Chakraborty
11:15 – 11:40
M. Gopinathan
12:30 – 12:45
Workshop Summary
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:30
Practical Session for Students (NIR Spectroscopic Data Reduction)
16:30
Tea / Coffee Break
19:30
Dinner
Poster Presentations
Poster
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Title
Near Infrared study of Barred Dark matter dominated
galaxies using TIRSPEC observations
Characterising protostellar evolution with infrared
spectroscopy
Magnetic field geometry in LDN 328
Fourier decomposition of Cepheid light curves at optical,
near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths
Preliminary optical design of Wi-Fi Pol (Wide Field
Polarimeter) for 1.3m Telescope
High-mass star formation towards the Infrared Bubble
S10
Infrared and Radio Investigation of the Cometary HII
Region IRAS 17256-3631
CLOUDY modelling of Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi,
2006 outburst
Deep near-infrared survey of the stellar content and star
formation in Sh2-311 region
Classification of brown dwarfs using near infrared
photometry & spectroscopy
Radio & Infrared study of star forming region
20286+4105
The correlation between X-ray luminosities and optical
colours of bright X-ray point sources in NGC 1399
The young cluster NGC 2282 : a multi-wavelength
perspective
Author
Honey M.
Debdutta Paul
Archana Soam
Anupam Bhardwaj
Neha Sharma
Swagat Ranjan Das
Veena V. S.
Anindita Mondal
Ram Kesh Yadav
Govind Nandakumar
Varsha Ramachandran
Aswathy S.
Somnath Dutta
14
Star Formation Activity in the IRAS 22308+5812 region
Tapas Baug
15
J, H, and K band study of Contact binaries
Kandulapati Sriram
16
17
18
19
20
Identification of UV stellar point sources using NIR colour Ananta Charan
cut method
Pradhan
Design and Development of IR Camera for Robo-AO, PJyotirmay Paul
60 Telescope, Caltech
Structural analysis of near infrared galaxy NGC 3115
Phase dependent spectro-photometric studies of a new
Mira variable MASTER Optical Transient
J212444.87+321738.3
Multi-wavelength Radiometer Observation of Aerosol
Properties and its Radiative Impact over Hyderabad,
India
Dhanya Joseph
Supriyo Ghosh
P. R. Sinha