XXXVI Meeting of Astronomical Society of India Department of Astronomy, Osmania University, Hyderabad 5 – 9 February 2018 Abstract Book Table of Contents Title Page No. 6th February 2018 Special Lecture - Parameswaran Ajith - Einstein’s Messengers 1 Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy I 2 Lokesh Dewangan - Observational Signatures of Cloud-Cloud Collision in the 2 Galactic Star-Forming Regions (I) Manash Samal - Understanding star formation in filamentary clouds - a case 3 study on the G182.4+00.3 cloud Veena - Understanding the structure, evolution and kinematics of the IRDC 4 G333.73+0.37 Jessy Jose - The youngest free-floating planets: A transformative survey of 5 nearby star forming regions with the novel W-band filter at CFHT-WIRCam Mayank Narang - Are Exoplanet properties determined by the host star? 6 Parallel Session – Extragalactic Astronomy 1 7 Rupak Roy - The Nuclear-transients 7 Agniva Roychowdhury - Study of multi-band X-Ray Time Variability of Mrk 421 8 using ASTROSAT Brajesh Kumar - Long term optical monitoring of the transitional Type Ic/BL-Ic 9 supernova ASASSN-16fp (SN 2016coi) Prajval Shastri - Multi-wavelength Views of Accreting Supermassive Black Holes 9 using ASTROSAT Pranjupriya Goswami - X-ray spectral curvature of high energy blazars with 10 NuSTAR observations Bindu Rani - Wobbling jets in active super-massive black holes 10 Parallel Session – General Relativity and Cosmology I 11 Pravabati Chingangbam - Probing length and time scales of the EoR using 11 Minkowski Tensors (I) Akash Kumar Patwa - On detecting EoR using drift scan data from MWA 11 Table of Contents Shamik Ghosh - Current status of the radio dipole and its measurement 12 strategy with the SKA Debanjan Sarkar - Modelling redshift-space distortion (RSD) in the post- 13 reionization HI 21-cm power spectrum Dinesh Raut - Measuring the reionization 21cm fluctuations using clustering 14 wedges. Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy II 15 Saurabh Sharma - Multi-wavelength studies of star forming regions(I) 15 Sonu Tabitha - Probing Early Phases of High Mass Stars with 6.7 GHz Methanol 16 Masers Gourav Banerjee - Spectroscopic Studies of Galactic Field Be stars through 16 CaII and FeII emission lines Avrajit Bandyopadhyay - Connection between Globular clusters and Galactic 17 halo Gaurav Singh - Study of Blue Straggler Stars in Galactic Globular Cluster NGC 18 6656 Parallel Session – Extragalactic Astronomy II 19 Saumyadip Samui - Cosmic Ray driven outflows from high-z galaxies (I) 19 Dipanjan Mukherjee - Impact of relativistic jets from AGNs on their host 20 galaxies Ramij Raja - Studying merging phenomena of massive clusters through multi- 21 wavelength study of MACSJ0417.5-1154 Ramya - Evolving perspectives on the formation and evolution of Giant Low 21 Surface Brightness galaxies Naslim Neelamkodan - ALMA reveals molecular cloud N55 in the Large 22 Magellanic Cloud as a site of massive star formation 7th February 2018 Plenary Session 1 - TIME DOMAIN ASTRONOMY 23 Table of Contents G. 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Anupama - Studies of Supernovae in the era of future large facilities 23 Biswajit Paul - X-ray timing from milliseconds to decades and time resolved 24 spectroscopy/polarimetry Shabnam Iyyani - Gamma ray burst: A window to the extraordinary and 24 extreme Universe Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy III 25 Sabyasachi Pal - Low frequency radio emission from extra-solar planets using 25 TIFR GMRT Sky Survey Bhaswati Bhattacharya - Searching for pulsars with GMRT : Fermi-directed 26 search and GHRSS survey Sushan Konar - The Nulling Pulsars : A statistical study 27 Mayur Bhaskar Shende - Formation of Episodic Jets from Black Hole Accretion 27 Disks Manoneeta C - The peculiar bursting behavior of magnetars and its 28 implications Shilpa Sarkar - Two-temperature flows around compact objects 29 Parallel Session – Extragalactic Astronomy III 30 Resmi Lekshmi - The Gamma Ray Burst from the first binary Neutron Star merger 30 (I) Kuntal Misra - Merger ejecta in short gamma ray bursts 30 Debdutta Paul - Luminosity function of Gamma Ray Bursts 31 Muhammed Saleem - Short-GRB afterglows in coincidence with gravitational 32 waves from Binary Neutron Star mergers Ruchika - The group environment in the Coma supercluster 32 Table of Contents Parallel Session – General Relativity and Cosmology II 33 Tuhin Ghosh - Measurements of Degree-scale B-mode polarization with BICEP2, 33 Keck Array and Planck (I) Kanhaiya Lal Pandey - Role of primordial black holes in SMBH formation at high 33 $z$ Lankeswar Dey - Constraining higher order gravitational wave back-reaction 34 in blazar OJ287 black hole binary Subhabrata Majumdar - Cosmological Missing Baryons hidden in CGM 35 Prasanta Kumar Das - Fermionic dark matter and supernova SN1987A cooling 35 Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy IV 36 Anindita Mondal - Calculation of H and He emission line fluxes in Novae 36 spectra Firoza Sutaria - UV studies of X-ray and optically bright SNRs 37 Barnali Das - Discovery of Electron Cyclotron MASER Emission from the 38 magnetic chemically peculiar star HD 133880 Subhajeet Karmakar - A Very Long and Hot X-ray Superflare on an RS CVn 39 type eclipsing binary SZ PSc K. Sriram - Investigating the dynamical instability criterion for asynchronous 40 binary systems Malu S. - Evidence of a tertiary component in Kepler contact binary K2 EPIC 41 2073314 Parallel Session - Instrumentation and Techniques I 42 Abhijit Chakraborty - How to achieve sub-1m/s precision Radial Velocity using 42 a Stabilized HR Spectrograph Shashi Bushan Pandey - 4KX4K CCD Imager for the 3.6m DOT and first light 42 results Archita Rai - Near-Infrared Imaging Spectro-Polarimeter (NISP) instrument for 43 PRL 2.5-m telescope. Table of Contents Kaushal Buch - Initial Developments in the Design and Implementation of FPA 44 Beamformer for the Expanded GMRT Yogesh Wadadekar - GMRT Archive Processing Project 45 8th February 2018 Plenary Session 2 - SCIENCE WITH THE UPGRADED GMRT 46 Yashwant Gupta - The upgraded GMRT: Overview and Prospects for Pulsar 47 Studies Ruta Kale - Clusters of galaxies with the upgraded GMRT 47 Nirupam Roy - Spectral line observations with the upgraded GMRT 48 Thesis presentations I 49 Rahul Kothari - On the Study of CMB Dipole Modulation and Its Relationship 49 with Spatial Inhomogeneity and Spacetime Noncommutativity Visweshwar Ram Marthi - Towards detecting redshifted HI with the Ooty Wide 50 Field Array Samir Choudhuri - Visibility-based Power Spectrum Estimation for Low- 51 Frequency Radio Interferometric Observations Pragati Pradhan - Pulse Profile Studies and Hard X-Ray Properties of Neutron 52 Stars Thesis presentations II 53 Tirtha Pratim Das - Study of noble gases in lunar exosphere using the CHACE- 53 MIP observation of Chandrayaan-1 Sowmya Krishnamurthy - Scattering polarization with Paschen--Back effect as 54 a tool to diagnose the magnetic structuring of the solar atmosphere Krishna Kumar Pandey - Study of solar activity during solar cycles 21-23 55 Shubham Srivastav - Observational Studies of Low Redshift Supernovae 56 Table of Contents Parallel Session - Sun and the Solar System I 57 Abhishek Srivastava - On Understanding New Heating Candidates for Sun's 57 Corona (I) Dipankar Banerjee - On Long term study of the sun using Kodaikanal Digitized 57 data Divya Oberoi - Solar radio astronomy at low radio frequencies: The dawn of a 58 new era Rohit Sharma - Characterising weak low radio frequency emission from the Sun 59 Ayesha Maryam Mazarbhuiya - Polarimetric study of comet C/2015 V2 60 (Johnson) at low phase angle Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy IV 61 Dharam Vir Lal - Cluster and radio relic: A sharp view using upgraded GMRT 61 K. S. Dwarkanath - Discovery of radio relics in the outskirts of the low-mass 61 galaxy cluster Abell 168 Veeresh Singh - Discovery of radio relics in the outskirts of the low-mass galaxy 62 cluster Abell 168 Bhargav Vaidya - Non-thermal Emission and Polarisation from AGN Jets 62 Sitha K. Jagan - Interpretating the synchrotron spectral curvature of PKS 2155- 63 304 Sonkamble Satish Shripati - Metallicity enrichment in hot gas environments via 63 radio jet Parallel Session - Instrumentation and Techniques II 64 Ajay Ratheesh - Astrosat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager as a Short GRB 64 Detector Madhuri Siriprolu - Development and Studies on TPC GEM X-ray Polarimeter 65 Shiv Kumar Goyal - Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS), 66 onboard Aditya-L1 mission Table of Contents Public Talk - Biman Nath - A dung beetle's view of the Milky Way 67 9th February 2018 Plenary Session 3 - GALAXIES AND THE IGM 68 Aseem Paranjape - Recent insights into dark halo assembly and implications 68 for galaxy evolution Arunima Bannerjee - Origin of LSB galaxies: A dynamical study 69 Biman Nath - Galaxies and the intergalactic medium 69 Parallel Session – Sun and the Solar System II 70 Aveek Sarkar - Numerical Simulation of active region MHD oscillations and 70 coronal loop implosion Dattaraj Dhuri - Prediction of solar flares from photospheric magnetic field 70 using machine learning Jishnu Bhattacharya - Iterative inversion of synthetic travel times successful at 71 recovering sub-surface profiles of supergranular flows Nishtha Sachdeva - Proxies for CME acceleration 71 K Sasikumar Raja - Turbulent density fluctuations and proton heating rate in 72 the solar wind from $9-20~R_{odot}$ Debi Prasad Choudhary - Flows along Super-Penumbral Fibrils of Sunspots 72 Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy V 73 Smriti Mahajan - Blue spheroids: