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XXXIV Meeting of Astronomical Society of India Kashmir University, Srinagar 10-13 May 2016 ABSTRACT BOOK- ASI 2016 Table of Contents Sl. No Title Page No. 1. Vainu Bappu Talk- Nikku Madhusudhan - Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar 1 Planets 2. Sukanta Bose - Special Lecture on GW Detection 1 i. 3. Parallel Session – Instrumentations and Techniques - I 2 4. Shiang-Yu Wang - Optical/IR Instrumentation Projects in Taiwan 2 5. Raghavendra Prasad B - Effect of source profile and wavelength on scatter distribution 2 over the field of view of Visible Emission Line Coronagraph on board ADITYA-L1 Mission 6. K. Sankarasubramanian- Novel Solar Spectro-polarimetric concepts for Future 3 Telescopes 7. Arun Kumar Naidu - PONDER - A Real time software backend for pulsar and IPS 3 observations at the Ooty Radio Telescope 8. Saurabh Singh - On the Detection of Global 21-cm signal from Reionization using 4 Interferometers i. 9. Parallel Session - Stars, The Milky Way Galaxy and its Neighbours - I 5 10. Tapas Baug - Galactic bubble N37 and surrounding star formation activity 5 11. Lokesh Kumar Dewangan - A multi-scale, multi-wavelength study of massive 6 star-forming region W42 12. Jessy Jose - Effect of stellar feedback on subsequent star formation activity 6 13. Kaushar Vaidya - Optical Spectroscopy of X-ray Selected Young Stars in the 7 Carina Nebula 14. Aruna Goswami - Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor stars: evolution, 7 nucleosynthesis, observations and the impact on cosmochemistry 15. Susmitha Rani Antony - Oxygen abundances in carbon enhance metal poor (CEMP) 8 stars: Comparison between CO and [OI] lines i. 16. Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy - I 9 17. Soumavo Ghosh - Effect of Dark Matter halo on spiral structures of different scales 9 18. Suvendu Rakshit - First spatially resolved black hole mass of quasar 3C273 9 19. Kartick C Sarkar- Multi-wavelentgh emission from galactic winds and Fermi Bubbles 10 20. Vikas Chand - Spectral Study of Gamma Ray Bursts ssing Czti of ASTROSAT 10 21. Indranil Chattopadhyay - Simulation of accretion disc and multiple shocks 11 22. Rupak Roy - Luminous Supernovae : Implication of shock interaction on the observed 11 properties i. 23. Plenary Session: ASTROSAT-First Science Results 12 24. S. N. Tandon - Calibrations of UVIT and the first scientific results 12 25. K. P. Singh - First Scientific Results from observations with the Soft X-ray 12 imaging Telescope onboard ASTROSAT 26. M. C. Ramadevi - SSM on ASTROSAT: First Results 13 27. J. S. Yadav - Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instrument 13 Table of Contents onboard ASTROSAT 28. S. Vadawale - Initial results from Astrosat CZTI 13 i. 29. Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy – II 14 30. Lijo Thomas George - Low Frequency Study of Merging Galaxy Clusters using the 14 MWA 31. Deovrat Prasad - Role of cooling and AGN jets in the evolution of cool-core galaxy 15 clusters 32. Pradeep Chandra - VHE gamma-ray observations of Markarian 421 and B20806+35 15 using TACTIC during 2015-16 33. Rubinur Khatun - Radio Observations of Candidate Dual Active Galactic Nuclei in 16 Double Peaked Emission Line Galaxies Zahiri. 3 Ahmad Shah - Multi-Wavelength Study of 3C454 During August 2015 Flaring 16 ii. 34. Parallel Session - Sun and Solar System - I 17 35. K. Chenna Reddy - Strengths and limitations of the Gadanki MST radar for meteor 17 observation 36. Gurpreet Kaur - Modelling the thermal evolution and differentiation of interior of Mars 18 and Mercury 37. Ayesha Maryam Mazarbhuiya - Imaging polarimetric study on Comet 32P/Comas- 19 Sola 38. Rohit - Characterisation of non-thermal solar emissions at low radio frequencies 20 39. Kumar Venkataramani- Study of Molecular Gas Emissions from Cometary Coma 20 40. Avyarthana Ghosh - Fan Loops Observed by IRIS, EIS and AIA 21 i. 41. Parallel Session - General Relativity and Cosmology - I 22 42. Abhirup Ghosh - Testing general relativity using golden black-hole binaries 22 43. Nisha Rani - Parametric and nonparametric contraints on Transition redshift 23 44. Archisman Ghosh - Prospects of estimating cosmological parameters from 23 gravitational-wave observations of coalescing binary black holes 45. Shankaranarayanan S - Low scale Higgs Inflation with Gauss Bonnet Coupling 24 i. 46. Parallel Session - Stars, The Milky Way Galaxy and its Neighbours - II 25 47. Lalitha Sairam - Magnetic activities in the outer atmospheres of RS CVn-type Binaries 25 48. Arti Joshi - Photometry and Polarimetry study of Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) 25 49. Anindita Mondal- Abundance analysis of the Recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (2006 26 outburst) 50. Mayukh Pahari - Spectro-temporal analysis of X-ray binaries using LAXPC on-board 26 ASTROSAT satellite 51. Gaurava K Jaisawal - Suzaku observations of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar GX 304-1 27 52. H. M. Lee - Dynamical Formation of Compact Binaries in Dense Star Clusters 27 i. 53. Plenary session: Dynamical systems 28 54. S. Sridhar: The disruption of multiplanet systems through resonance with a binary orbit 28 55. J. S. Bagla : Gravitational clustering in an expanding universe 28 56. Farooq Ahmed : Gravitational Clustering of Galaxies: Derivation of distribution 29 function using statistical mechanics of cosmology many-body problem Table of Contents i. 57. Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy - III 30 58. R. Srianand - On the star formation in high-z DLAs 30 59. J N H S Aditya - Cold Gas in High Redshift Galaxies 30 60. Charles Jose - Non-linear clustering of high redshift galaxies 31 61. Katherine Rawlins - Multi-component H2 absorption in a damped Lyman-α absorber at 32 zabs = 2.054 - spectroscopic analysis & simulation 62. Sonali Sachdeva - Evolution of disc galaxies for the past 8 Gyrs 33 Sandeepi. Rana - HI intensity mapping, co-adding and cross-correlation 33 ii. 63. Parallel Session - Instrumentation & Techniques - II 34 64. Maheswar Gopinathan - 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT): Commissioning and 34 early science 65. Sunetra Giridhar - HESP: an echelle spectrograph for 2m HCT 34 66. Prasanna Deshmukh - Simulator for Primary Mirror Control System of Segmented 35 Mirror Telescope 67. Vineeth Valsan - Development of Stressed Mirror Polishing Technology 35 i. 68. General Relativity and Cosmology - II 36 69. K. Subramanian - Origin of Cosmological magnetic fields: Primordial AND dynamos? 36 70. Shishir Sankhyayan - Large Scale Structures and Clusters-Voids Cross-correlation 36 71. Rajesh Mondal - Statistics of the epoch of reionization 21-cm signal : Power spectrum 37 error-covariance 72. Asif Iqbal Ahangar - Entropy excess and energy deposition profile in galaxy clusters up 37 to virial radius 73. Bidisha Bandyopadhyay - Can Annihilating Clumped Dark Matter lead to Helium 38 Reionization? i. 74. Parallel Session - Stars, The Milky Way Galaxy and its Neighbours – III 39 75. Sharanya Sur - Galaxy outflows without supernovae 39 76. Naveen Yadav - Dynamics of Supernova Driven Supershells 39 77. Jayant Murthy - Modeling the diffuse ultraviolet background 40 78. Smitha Subramanian - Signatures of a tidally stripped stellar population from the inner 40 regions of the Small Magellanic Cloud 79. Samir Mandal - Spectral properties of pair-plasma in disc-jet system around black hole 41 i. 80. Parallel Session - Sun and Solar System - II 42 81. Piyali Chatterjee - Mystery of repeatedly flaring delta sunspots 42 82. Sreejith Padinhatteeri - Delta-sunspot groups and Solar Flares 42 83. Suruchi Goel - The statistical study of global properties of sunspots in SoHO/MDI 43 continuum images over solar cycle 23 84. Vaibhav Pant - Kinematics of fast and slow CMEs 43 85. Tanmoy Samanta - Response of chromospheric jets in the corona 44 i. 86. Plenary session: Multi-messenger Astronomy 45 87. Varun Bhalerao: Einstein's messengers: Gravitational wave sources and their 45 electromagnetic counterparts Table of Contents 88. Amol Dighe: Pauli's messengers: Looking at the sky in neutrinos 45 89. Kuntal Mishra: Optical Transients 46 i. 90. Thesis Presenation 47 91. S. Rathna Kumar - Determination of $H_0$ through monitoring of gravitationally 47 lensed quasars 92. S. Athiray - Study of lunar surface chemistry using Swept Charge Devices 48 93. Samyaday Choudhury - Study of evolved stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds 49 94. K. Sasikumar Raja - Radio Polarization Studies of the Solar Corona at Low - 50 frequencies 95. Drisya K - Studies on Carbon Enhanced Metal Poor (CEMP)stars 51 96. Raja Bayanna - Study of coupling between the layers of the solar atmosphere at high 52 resolution 97. Archana Soam - Investigation of galactic star forming regions and young stellar objects 53 98. V.Venkataraman - Infrared investigations of circumstellar matter 54 i. 99. Poster Presentations- Sun and Solar System 55 i. 100. Poster Presentations- Stars, The Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbours 67 ii. 101. Poster Presentations- General Relativity and Cosmology 96 iii. 102. Poster Presentations- Extragalactic Astronomy 108 103. Poster Presentations- Instrumentation and Techniques 135 ASI 2016 – Abstract Book 1 Tuesday, May 10, 2016 ASI2016_1001 Nikku Madhusudhan 11.30 am – 12.00 pm Vainu Bappu Talk Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets Exoplanetary discoveries in the past two decades have unveiled an astonishing diversity in the physical characteristics of exoplanetary systems, including their orbital properties, masses, radii, equilibrium temperatures, and stellar hosts. Exoplanets known today range from gas-giants to nearly Earth-size planets, and some even in the habitable zones of their host stars.