XXXV Meeting of Astronomical Society of India B. M. Birla Auditorium, Jaipur 6 - 10 March 2017 ABSTRACT BOOK- ASI 2017 Table of Contents Title Page No. 6th March 2017 Astronomy Education and Outreach Somak Raychaudhury - IUCAA's role in Astronomy Education in India 1 H. P. Singh - Astronomy and Astrophysics at Delhi University 1 Priya Hasan - Saath Satve Aasman 1 7th March 2017 Vainu Bappu Presentation : Luca Cortese - Galaxy transformation in the local Universe 2 Special Lecture : Jonathan Tennyson - Molecular line lists for the opacity of exoplanets, cool 3 stars and other atmospheres Parallel Session – Sun and the Solar System - 1 Dibyendu Nandi - The Science Case for Solar and Space Weather Observations from Lagrange 4 Point L5 in Space Vipin K. Yadav - Solar plasma (Alfven) wave observation at L1 point with the magnetic field 4 measurements Mekhi Dhesi - Twinkle Space Mission 5 Mahendra Verma - How MHD Turbulence theories can help understand solar wind and solar 6 magnetic field Rengaswamy Sridharan - Imaging with Masked Apertures: Application to Solar Imaging 6 Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy – 1 Sarita Vig - An insight into massive star formation in dense cores of molecular clouds 7 Blesson Mathew - The curious case of PDS 11: a nearby, >10 Myr old, classical T Tauri binary 7 system Mahathi Chavali - Comparative analysis of X-ray emission from T Tauri stars and Herbig Ae/Be 8 stars Dhrimadri Khata - Understanding Physical Properties of Young M-dwarfs : Optical and Near-IR 8 spectroscopic studies. Krishnakumar M.A. - Towards understanding the ISM turbulence using pulsars 9 Parallel Session – Extragalactic Astronomy - 1 Sudhanshu Barway - Which bulges are favoured by barred S0 galaxies? 9 Sheelu Abraham - Automated Detection of Barred Galaxies using Convolutional Neural Network 10 Preetish Kumar Mishra - Pseudo bulges in galaxy groups: the role of environment in secular 10 evolution Koshy George - Galaxies reborn: The curious case of star forming elliptical galaxies 11 Sushma Kurapati - HI observations of gas-rich void galaxies 11 Mousumi Das - A Study of the Galaxies within the Bootes Void 12 Parallel Session – General Relativity and Cosmology - 1 Supratik Pal - Inflationary cosmology post-Planck 2015 12 Abir Sarkar - The effects of non-standard dark matter on CMB spectral distortions 13 Janakee Raste - Analytically Modelling Early Phase of EoR 13 Table of Contents Parallel Session – Sun and the Solar System - 2 Bidya Binay Karak - Why do stars rotate differentially? 14 Anusha L. S. - Non-equilibrium hydrogen ionization in the solar atmosphere 14 Krishnendu Mandal - Computation of 3d spherical kernel for the understanding of meridional 15 circulation Rajashik Tarafder - A Mathematical Model for Solar and Anthropogenic Forcing of Global 15 Climate Abhishek Kumar - Energy spectrum for buoyancy-driven turbulence 16 Parallel Session – Stars, ISM and the Galaxy – 2 Manoj Puravankara - Underabunadance of water behind interstellar shocks: Implications for the 17 oxygen budget of the ISM Amit Pathak - The Deuterium abundance in astrophysical PAHs 17 Piyali Saha - Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Study of L1616 18 Swagat Ranjan Das - Star formation associated with infrared bubbles 18 Siddhartha Gupta - Lack of thermal energy in superbubbles : hint of cosmic rays ? 19 Somnath Dutta - Stellar population and the star formation histories of distant Galactic HII 19 regions NGC 2282 and Sh 2-149 Complex Parallel Session – Extragalactic Astronomy - 2 Preeti Kharb - Low Frequency Radio Observations of Radio-Weak Seyfert Galaxies 20 C S Stalin - Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies 20 Sravani Vaddi - Black hole spins of radio loud quasars 21 Debbijoy Bhattacharya - Spectral study of gamma ray bursts using CZTI of ASTROSAT 21 Parallel Session – Instrumentation and Techniques - 1 Rekhesh Mohan - Observing with UVIT: Software Tools to plan your observations 22 Mithun N P S - In-flight Spectral Calibration of AstroSat CZT Imager 22 Ajay Vibhute - ASTROSAT CZTI IMAGE ANALYSIS 23 Srikanth Panini Singam - Development of multilayer mirror based soft X-ray polarimeter 23 Prashant Kumar - Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS) on-board Aditya-L1 Mission 24 8th March, 2017 Plenary Session: ASTROSAT Annapurni Subramaniam - Early Science results from the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope 25 Ranjeev Misra - ASTROSAT: A New Era for Rapid X-ray Timing Studies 25 Santosh Vadawale - Hard X-ray Polarimetry with AstroSat CZTI 26 Gulab Dewangan - AstroSat status and science support 26 Parallel Session – Sun and the Solar System - 3 Bhavesh Jaiswal - Spectro-polarimetry of the limb of the Martian atmosphere:simulations based 27 on a radiative transfer model Naznin R. Choudhury - Study of porous grains and related properties of cometarydust 27 Alok Ranjan Tiwary- Imaging Spectro-polarimeter for Multi Application SolarTelescope (MAST): 28 Preliminary Results Obtained in theFe I 617.3 nm and Ca II 854.2 nm. Bimal Pande - Multiwavelength Analysis of a typical prominence withhelical twisting associated 28 with a CME Table of Contents Parallel Session - Stars, ISM and the Galaxy- 3 Priya Hasan - A tale of two Populations: NGC 281 29 Bryan Rithesh - Miranda Detecting UV bright stellar population in Open ClusterRemnants 29 Neelam Panwar - Stellar content and mass function of the cluster Be 59towards the low-mass end 30 Sindhu N - How hot are Blue Stragglers? 30 Snehalata Sahu - UVIT Imaging of the globular cluster NGC 288 31 Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy- 3 Vikram Khaire - Helium Reionization and Spectral Energy Distribution of Quasars 31 Sachin P C - Detection of Two Intervening Ne VIII Absorbers Probing Warm-Hot Gas at z > 0 32 Kanak Saha - ASTRoSAT/UVIT deep observation of HST/Chandra Deep Field South 32 Konstantinos Kolokythas - The Complete Local-Volume Groups Sample: Radioproperties and 33 feedback implications of galaxy groups in the Local Universe Abhirup Datta - Understanding Merger Activities in Galaxy Clusters UsingHigh Fidelity X-ray 33 Temperature Maps and Radio Observations Pooja Bhattacharjee - Searching for signatures of dark matter annihilation from 34 Triangulum II using FERMI gamma ray data Parallel Session - Instrumentation and Techniques – 2 Sagar Godambe - Performance evaluation of prototype imaging camerafor the MACE telescope 35 Shiv Kumar - Goyal Supra Thermal & Energetic Particle Spectrometer(STEPS) - subsystem of 35 ASPEX payload, onboardAditya-L1 mission K. Sankarasubramanian - A Novel Spectroscopic Concept for High Time CadenceVelocity 36 Measurements Ritabrata Sarkar - Low Cost Exploration of Space Using Weather Balloon Borne X-ray Detectors 37 Varun Kumar - Analysis and design of planar flexible inductor for 37 segment edge sensing in Segmented Mirror Telescopes Parallel Session - Sun and Solar System - 4 Girjesh R Gupta - Heating and cooling of coronal loop observed during a micro-flare with IRIS, 38 SDO, and XRT Sanjay Kumar - On The Role Of Repetitive Magnetic Reconnections In Evolution Of Magnetic 38 Flux Ropes In Solar Corona Abhishek Kumar Srivastava - Coronal EUV Waves and Their Interaction with the Localized 39 Magnetic Structures Tomin K James - Energetics of small electron acceleration episodes in the solar corona 39 Abhishek Johri - Acceleration and evolution of solar energetic particle events in the Sun-Earth 39 distance Parallel Session - Stars, ISM and the Galaxy- 4 Vishal Joshi - Near-infrared studies of Novae: Highlights of recent results 40 Nirupam Roy - Radio monitoring of Galactic novae: highlights of recent results 41 Prasanta Bera - Spectral and timing properties of the magnetic CVs 41 N Kameswar Rao - UVIT -- A nnew Tool for the Study of Planetary Nebulae iUV 42 Ananta Charan Pradhan - The GALEX observations of planetary nebulae 42 Table of Contents Parallel Session - Extragalactic Astronomy- 4 Sumana Nandi - A misaligned double-double radio galaxy hosted by a binary supermassive black 43 hole system Chiranjib Konar - Episodic Radio Galaxies and Mode of Accretion in Them 44 Pratik Dabhade - SAGAN - Search & Analysis of GRGs with Associated Nuclei 44 Viral Parekh - Early results of uGMRT observations of diffuse radio sources 45 Ananda Hota - First results from the GMRT Observation of Objects Discovered by RAD@home 45 Astronomy Collaboratory (GOOD-RAC) Parallel Session - General Relativity and Cosmology - 2 Abhirup Ghosh - CTesting general relativity using gravitational wave signals from the inspiral, 46 merger and ringdown of binary black holes Krishnendu N. V. - Testing the binary black hole nature of compact binary coalescences using 47 gravitational wave observations Gayathri V. - Wavelet-based search of coalescing compact binaries with 47 GW detectors Bhal Chandra Joshi - Radio Pulsars, gravity and an Indian Pulsar Timing Array 48 Prerna Rana - Dynamics of bound orbits in Kerr geometry and QPO 48 frequency ratios Thesis Presentation 1 Avijeet Prasad - Magnetic helicity and force-free properties of astrophysical 49 magnetic fields Atreyee Sinha - A Multiwavelength Study of TeV Blazars 50 Krishna Kumar Singh - Very high energy gamma-ray observations of a few Fermi 51 detected blazars using TACTIC telescope 9th March 2017 Plenary Session 2 – GR and Cosmology Rishi Khatri - Information hidden in the CMB spectral distortions 52 Biswajit Pandey - An information theory based search for homogeneity and isotropy in the 52 Universe Kanan Dutta - Probing the universe with the HI 21cm line 53 Parallel Session – Sun and the Solar System - 5 Manjunath Hegde - Long term study of the sun using Kodaikanal H-alpha