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Exploring the long-term temporal variability in polarization through multi-epoch optical spectro-polarimetry - Part II: A sample of symbiotic and red-giant stars
Arijit Maiti, Arijit Maiti. Ruchi Pandey, Ruchi Pandey +2
Measuring polarization and its temporal variability in the continuum and across emission features provides a powerful probe of the small-scale circumstellar environments of astroph…
Exploring the long-term temporal variability in polarization through multi-epoch optical spectro-polarimetry - Part I: A sample of Herbig Ae/Be and classical Be stars
Arijit Maiti, Mudit K. Srivastava
Polarization signatures across emission line features, together with their temporal evolution, offer a powerful probe of the circumstellar environments of astrophysical sources, on…
Discovery of variable polarization in H profile of symbiotic star Y Gem: A case for orbital-phase dependent variation of Raman-scattered Ly emission
Arijit Maiti, Mudit K. Srivastava, Vipin Kumar
The geometry and morphology of symbiotic stars are conducive to exhibit a variety of scattering phenomena. The prominent among them is the Raman scattering of O VI doublet 103…
Development of ProtoPol: a medium resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter for PRL telescopes, Mt Abu, India -- Part II : the data-reduction pipeline, on-sky characterization performance verification and first science results
Arijit Maiti, Mudit K. Srivastava, Vipin Kumar +5
We present the development of ProtoPol - a medium resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter for the PRL 1.2m and 2.5m telescopes at Mt Abu observatory, India. In this second and final…
Development of ProtoPol: a medium resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter for PRL telescopes, Mt Abu, India -- Part I : the design, development and laboratory characterization
Mudit K. Srivastava, Arijit Maiti, Vipin Kumar +4
ProtoPol is a medium-resolution echelle spectro-polarimeter developed for Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) 1.2m and 2.5m telescopes, Mt. Abu, India. Though initially conceived to…
A phenomenological study of the evolution of shock-induced O I emission lines in the spectrum of nova V2891 Cygni
Ruchi Pandey, Mudit K. Srivastava, Gargi Shaw
The eruption of Nova V2891 Cygni in 2019 offers a rare opportunity to explore the shock-induced processes in novae ejecta. The spectral evolution shows noticeable differences in th…
Exploring the short-term variability of H and H emissions in a sample of M dwarfs
Vipin Kumar, A. S. Rajpurohit, Mudit K. Srivastava +2
The time scales of variability in active M dwarfs can be related to their various physical parameters. Thus, it is important to understand such variability to decipher the physics…
Exploring the short-term variability of Hα and H\b{eta} emissions in a sample of M Dwarfs
Vipin Kumar, A. S. Rajpurohit, Mudit K. Srivastava
Activities in M dwarfs show spectroscopic variability over various time scales ranging from a few seconds to several hours. The time scales of such variability can be related to in…
Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of Nova V2891 Cygni: evidence for shock-induced dust formation
Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava, Dipankar P. K. Banerjee +6
We present multi-epoch optical and near-infrared observations of the highly reddened, \pion{Fe}{ii} class slow nova V2891 Cygni. The observations span 15 months since its discovery…
The Flare-Activity of 2MASSJ16111534-1757214 in the Upper Scorpius association
E. W. Guenther, D. Woeckel, P. Chaturvedi +3
Flares are known to play an important role for the evolution of the atmospheres of young planets. In order to understand the evolution of planets, it is thus important to study the…
Design and Development of Mt. Abu Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera -- Pathfinder (MFOSC-P) for PRL 1.2m Mt. Abu Telescope
Mudit K. Srivastava, Vipin Kumar, Vaibhav Dixit +4
Mt. Abu Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera - Pathfinder (MFOSC-P) is an imager-spectrograph developed for the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) 1.2m telescope at Gurushikhar, Mt…
UV spectroscopy confirms SU Lyn to be a symbiotic star
Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava, Dipankar P. K. Banerjee +1
SU Lyn, a star that ostensibly appears to be an unremarkable late M type giant, has recently been proposed to be a symbiotic star largely based on its hard X-ray properties. The st…
First Results from MFOSC-P : Low Resolution Optical Spectroscopy of a Sample of M dwarfs within 100 parsecs
A. S. Rajpurohit, Vipin Kumar, Mudit K. Srivastava +4
Mt. Abu Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera (MFOSC-P) is an in-house developed instrument for Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) 1.2m telescope at Mt. Abu India, commissioned in F…
Early formation of carbon monoxide in the Centaurus A supernova SN 2016adj
D. P. K. Banerjee, Vishal Joshi, A. Evans +8
We present near-infrared spectroscopy of the NGC 5128 supernova SN 2016adj in the first 2 months following discovery. We report the detection of first overtone carbon monoxide emis…
The Temporal Development of Dust Formation and Destruction in Nova Sagittarii 2015#2 (V5668 Sgr): A Panchromatic Study
R. D. Gehrz, A. Evans, C. E. Woodward +15
We present 5-28 micron SOFIA FORECAST spectroscopy complemented by panchromatic X-ray through infrared observations of the CO nova V5668 Sgr documenting the formation and destructi…
Nova Ophiuchus 2017 as a probe of C nucleosynthesis and carbon monoxide formation and destruction in classical novae
Vishal Joshi, Dipankar P. K. Banerjee, Mudit Srivastava
We present a series of near-infrared spectra of Nova Ophiuchus 2017 in the band that record the evolution of the first overtone CO emission in unprecedented detail. Starting fr…
Near-infrared and optical studies of the highly obscured nova V1831 Aquilae (Nova Aquilae 2015)
D. P. K. Banerjee, Mudit K. Srivastava, N. M. Ashok +4
Near Infrared (NIR) and optical photometry and spectroscopy are presented for the nova V1831 Aquilae, covering the early decline and dust forming phases during the first 90 d…
Near Infrared studies of the carbon-monoxide and dust forming nova V5668 Sgr
D. P. K. Banerjee, Mudit K. Srivastava, N. M. Ashok +1
We present near-infrared (NIR) observations of Nova V5668 Sgr, discovered in outburst on 2015 March 15.634 UT, between 2d to 107d after outburst. NIR spectral features are used to…
Near Infrared studies during maximum and early decline of Nova Cephei 2014 and Nova Scorpii 2015
Mudit K. Srivastava, N. M. Ashok, D. P. K. Banerjee +1
We present multi-epoch near-infrared photo-spectroscopic observations of Nova Cephei 2014 and Nova Scorpii 2015, discovered in outburst on 2014 March 8.79 UT and 2015 February 11.8…
The ERA2 facility: towards application of a fiber-based astronomical spectrograph for imaging spectroscopy in life sciences
Martin M. Roth, Karl Zenichowski, Nicolae Tarcea +13
Astronomical instrumentation is most of the time faced with challenging requirements in terms of sensitivity, stability, complexity, etc., and therefore leads to high performance d…
UNICS - An Unified Instrument Control System for Small/Medium Sized Astronomical Observatories
Mudit K. Srivastava, A. N. Ramaprakash, Mahesh P. Burse +5
Although the astronomy community is witnessing an era of large telescopes, smaller and medium sized telescopes still maintain their utility being larger in numbers. In order to obt…
Studying the Imaging Characteristics of Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) through Numerical Simulations
Mudit K. Srivastava, Swapnil M. Prabhudesai, Shyam N. Tandon
Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the five payloads aboard the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)'s ASTROSAT space mission. The science objectives of UVIT are…