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astro-ph.IM2026

Astrometric Calibration of the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope Observations

Vibhore Negi, Naveen Dukiya, Gokul Singh Mehra +12

The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a dedicated time domain survey telescope that continuously scans the zenithal sky over the Indian Himalayas in the g', r' an…

astro-ph.GA2023

Characterizing cool, neutral gas and ionized metals in the outskirts of low-z galaxy clusters

Sapna Mishra, Sowgat Muzahid, Sayak Dutta +2

We present the first detection of cool, neutral gas in the outskirts of low-z galaxy clusters using a statistically significant sample of 3191 z0.2 background quasar - for…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

MUSEQuBES: Mapping the distribution of neutral hydrogen around low-redshift galaxies

Sayak Dutta, Sowgat Muzahid, Joop Schaye +5

We present a detailed study of cool, neutral gas traced by Lya around 4595 z<0.5 galaxies using stacks of background quasar spectra. The galaxies are selected from our MUSEQuBES lo…

astro-ph.HE2022

Intranight optical variability of low-mass Active Galactic Nuclei: A Pointer to blazar-like activity

Gopal-Krishna, Krishan Chand, Hum Chand +4

This study aims to characterise, for the first time, intranight optical variability (INOV) of low-mass active galactic nuclei (LMAGN) which host a black hole (BH) of mass $M_{BH} \…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

Intranight variability of UV emission from powerful blazars

Krishan Chand, Gopal-Krishna, Amitesh Omar +4

We report the first study to characterise intranight variability of the blazar class from the perspective of (rest-frame) UV emission. For this, we carried out intranight optical m…

astro-ph.IM2021

The upcoming 4m ILMT facility and data reduction pipeline testing

Brajesh Kumar, Vibhore Negi, Bhavya Ailawadhi +5

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) installation activities have recently been completed at the Devasthal observatory (Uttarakhand, India). The ILMT will perform co…