337 Sun: structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere
Shibu K. Matthew : 3-d structure of Sunspots
Wolfgang Kalkofen : Is the chromosphere always hot, or mostly cold ?
S. S. Hasan : Dynamics of the magnetized solar atmosphere
Dipankar Banerjee : Transition region dynamics
P. K. Manoharan : Imaging solar coronal mass ejections from Sun to 1 AU:
predicting their arrivals at earth
340 Stars/ISM/galaxies
N. M. Ashok : Infrared studies of novae
Anandmayee Tej : Recent results from infrared and radio observations of massive
star forming regions
Sujan Sengupta : Brown dwarfs : the missing link between stars and planets
Manojendu Choudhury : Cygnus X-3: a phenomenological perspective
Brijesh Kumar : Wide field multi-object cluster spectroscopy
Alain Lecavelier des Etangs : Planetary transits: a first direct view of extrasolar
planets
Ranjeev Misra : The effect of non-thermal protons on the high energy spectra of
black hole binaries
Annapurni Subramaniam : Is the Large Magellanic Cloud a double barred
galaxy ?
B. Eshwar Reddy : Abundance survey of Galactic disk : thin versus thick disks
Alok Chandra Gupta : Variability of active galactic nuclei
Russell Cannon : The 2SLAQ luminous red galaxy survey
345 Radio astronomy mini symposium
Yashwant Gupta : Pulsar studies with GMRT : some recent results
B. C. Joshi, M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer, D. R. Lorimer,
R. N. Manchester, F. Camilo, M. Burgay, A. Possenti, N. D'Amico and
P. C. C. Freire : Multifrequency observations of double pulsar J0737
- 3039 using
GMRT
Poonam Chandra, Alak Ray and Sanjay Bhatnagar : Radio studies of
supernovae
Anish Roshi : High frequency carbon recombination lines as a probe to study
the environment of ultra-compact HII regions
K. S. Dwarakanath : Galactic halo HI clouds : recent GMRT results
Dipanjan Mitra : The magnetic field in the Milky Way
Ayesha Begum : Dwarf galaxies
Amitesh Omar : Galaxy evolution in low density environments
349 Cosmology
Shiv Sethi : CMBR anisotropies : from WMAP to Planck
T. R. Seshadri : CMB polarization
Tarun Deep Saini : Probing dark energy
H. Chand, R. Srianand, P. Petitjean and B. Aracil : Does the
fine-structure constant vary?
Suparna Roychowdhury : Active galaxies and `entropy floor' in
galaxy clusters
351 Future facilities
P. C. Agrawal : The Indian multiwavelength astronomy
satellite `ASTROSAT'
S. K. Ghosh : Future spacebased IR spectrometer
A. K. Kembhavi and Jayant Gupchup : Virtual observatory capabilities
Rekhesh Mohan : Preparing for new UV space missions at IIA
Ram Sagar : One-meter class optical telescope for early and fast observations of
GRB afterglows
P. Venkatakrishnan : Experiments and design activities for the multi application
solar telescope
354 POSTER PRESENTATIONS
354 Sun and solar system
Bhuwan Joshi, P. Pant and P. K. Manoharan : Statistical study
of H alpha flares
during the current solar cycle
Hari Om Vats : Colour and correlation analysis of shadow-bands observed during
total solar eclipse of 23 November 2003 at the Indian Antarctic Station, Maitri
B. Ravindra : Relationship between speed of CME and GOES X-ray peak
flux
B. Ravindra : On the correlation between He II 304
Ao
and He I 10830 Ao network cells
B. Ravindra and Brajesh Kumar : A study of the effect of flare on acoustic
oscillations using wavelet analysis
K. M. Hiremath, M. R. Lovely and R. Kariyappa : Solar abnormal activity
during Oct.-Nov. 2003
Koshy George and T. Chandrasekhar : H+3 in Jovian aurorae
K. Chenna Reddy, D. Venkata Phani Kumar and G. Yellaiah : MST radar
observations of Perseid meteor shower 2004
K. Nagaraju and K. E. Rangarajan : Contribution functions for Stokes vector
profiles
Mahendra Singh, Brijesh Kumar and B.B. Sanwal : Spectrophotometric
study of the comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)
Vivek Gupta and Badruddin : Solar rotation and geomagnetic field variability : low solar activity periods
Munendra Singh, Y.P. Singh and Badruddin : Solar wind plasma
and field
variations during solar wind streams and their role in modulating geomagnetic
activity
Vaibhav A. Janve and Ashok Ambastha : Spectral characterization of solar
active region NOAA 8242 in quiet and sunspot locations
K. M. Hiremath and K. Venkata Rama Krishna : Some aspects of the solar
core magnetic field
P. K. Manoharan : Anisotropy of solar wind density turbulence caused by the
transients
P. K. Manoharan : Study of properties of coronal mass ejections from AR 9393
and AR 9415
S. P. Rajaguru, R. L. Kurucz and S. S. Hasan : How similar are starspots
to sunspots?
Jagdev Singh, Takashi Sakurai, Kiyoshi Ichimoto and Tetsuya Watan
abe : Complex variations in line-intensity ratio of coronal emission lines with height
above the limb
Pankaj K. Shrivastava : Solar wind effects on cosmic ray modulation at 1AU
A. N. Sil and P. K. Mukherjee : Spectral properties of two electron ions of
astrophysical interest under strongly coupled plasma
Ashok Ambastha : Magnetic evolution of super-active region NOAA AR 10486
and the large 4B/X17.2 class are observed during October 28, 2003
R. Kariyappa, K. M. Hiremath and L. Dame : Contribution of solar chro
mospheric features to UV irradiance variability
R. Kariyappa and K. R. Sivaraman : Variability of CaII K
emission flux over
the solar cycle
Wahab Uddin, Ramesh Chandra, Bhuwan Joshi and Syed Salman Ali :
Extreme level solar activity during decay phase of solar cycle 23 in October-
November 2003
B. Ravindra, Ashok Ambastha and Sanjay Gosain : Preliminary results of
Venus transit of June 8, 2004 observed in H alpha 6563
Ao
A. Mujiber Rahman and S. Umapathy : Effects of coronal mass ejection
associated with eruptive flares of the Sun
P. S. Goraya and Ravinder Singh : Brightness variations in Comet Hyakutake
(C/1996 B2)
367 Stars and galaxies
David Mary : On observational detection limits in asteroseismology : a compar
ison between Manora Peak and Devasthal
M. Maiti, S. Sengupta, P. S. Parihar and G. C. Anupama : Observation
of R-band variability of L dwarfs
Sudhanshu Barway, S. K. Pandey and Laxmikant Chaware : Long-term
spot activity variation in FK Comae Berenices
P. Manoj, H. C. Bhatt and G. Maheswar : Evolution of emission line activity
in intermediate mass young stars
Soumen Mondal, T. Chandrasekhar and P. K. Kikani : Angular diameters
and effective temperatures of 19 evolved stars by lunar occultations
D. K. Ojha, S. K. Ghosh, A. Tej, R. P. Verma, S. Vig, G. C. Anupama,
B. C. Bhatt, P. Parihar, T. P. Prabhu, U. S. Kamath and
B. G. Anandarao : Post-outburst phase of the McNeil's Nebula (V1647 Orionis)
U. S. Chaubey and N. S. Kumar : Discovery of pulsations in Am Star HD25515
S. Sujatha, S. M. Sriraghavan, K. Jayakumar and G. S. D. Babu :
Atmospheric extinction at the Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle and at the
Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur
S. Sujatha, S. M. Sriraghavan and G. S. D. Babu : Study of young open
cluster NGC 1624 (OCl 403, Cr 53)
J. C. Pandey, K. P. Singh, R. Sagar and S. A. Drake : HD 81032 : a newly
discovered RS CVn binary
Contents Continued
S. M. Sriraghavan, K. Jayakumar, G. S. D. Babu and S. Sujatha : On
the behaviour of chemically peculiar star HR2095
Bacham E. Reddy and David L. Lambert : Li-rich K giants : a few new cases
Kameswara Rao and Bacham E. Reddy : FIP effect in RV Tauri stars
V. Girish, V. R. Rana and K. P. Singh : X-ray spectroscopy of AM Her
V. R. Rana, K. P. Singh, E. M. Schlegel and P. E. Barrett : Chandra
HETG observations of intermediate polars
N. Kalyani : Near infrared analysis of nearby main sequence stars
A. K. Durgapal, A. K. Pandey and J. C. Pandey : Search for variable stars
in intermediate and old age open clusters
Yogesh C. Joshi, Anil K. Pandey and K. Ogura : CCD photometric study
of the open cluster NGC 6611
Sneh Lata and Ram Sagar : Mass function study of six open clusters Be 10, Be
67, To 5 , Be 15, Be 71 and King 1
Saurabh, A. K. Pandey, K. Ogura, H. Mito, K. Tarusava, T. Aoki and
Ram Sagar : Wide field CCD photometry of open clusters
Annapurni Subramaniam, B. C. Bhatt and S. Ramya : Study of emission
line stars in young open clusters using slit-less spectra : NGC 663
A. Subramaniam, D. K. Sahu, R. Sagar and P. Vijitha : NGC146: a
young open cluster with di®erent ages for the low and high mass stars
A. K. Pandey, K. Upadhyay, K. Ogura, H. Mito and Ram Sagar : Wide
field CCD photometry around open cluster NGC 1912
K. Jayendra Baliga and D. C. V. Mallik : Incidence of planetary nebulae in
star clusters
G. C. Anupama and P. S. Parihar : Optical spectroscopy of the classical nova
V5114 Sgr 2004
Poonam Chandra, Alak Ray, Eric Schlegel, Firoza Sutaria and Wolfgang
Pietsch : Chandra X-ray observations of SN 1995N
Kuntal Misra, Atish P. Kamble, D. Bhattacharya and Ram Sagar : Multi
band optical photometry and bolometric light curve of Type Ia Supernova SN 2004S
M. D. Pandey, A. P. Rao, R. K. Manchanda, Ph. Durouchoux, Ishwara-
Chandra, V. H. Kulkarni : Low frequency radio observations of low mass X-ray
binary -Sco X-1
H. Raichur and B. Paul : Orbital evolution and apsidal motion in HMXB
pulsars
Amrit Lal Ahuja, Yashwant Gupta, Dipanjan Mitra and Ajit K. Kemb
havi : A novel technique of accurate estimation of pulsar dispersion measures
B. Bhattacharyya, Y. Gupta and J. Gil : Detailed study of the emission
properties of PSR B0826-34
B. Bhattacharyya, Rajaram Nityananda and Y. Gupta : Determination of
orbital parameters of binary pulsars
Subharthi Ray and A. R. Prasanna : Self lensing e®ects for compact stars and
their mass-radius relation
Poonam Chandra, Brian Cameron, Alak Ray, Shri Kulkarni, Dail Frail
and M. Wieringa : Radio afterglow of SGR 1806-20
Soumen Mondal, Sudeshna Samanta and Sandip K. Chakrabarti :
Pseudo-potential approach for astrophysical fluid dynamics study
Sudeshna Samanta, Soumen Mondal and Sandip K. Chakrabarti :
Pseudo-Kerr geometry
Prasad Basu and Sandip K. Chakrabarti : Gravitational wave emission from
black holes surrounded by massive disks
C. K. Bhat and R. K. Kaul : Galactic di®use VHE gamma-rays flux measure
ments through IACT : a simulations-based feasibility study
Samuel D. Morris : An estimate of the iron group of nuclei in primary cosmic
ray flux at energies ~ 1015 eV
Suresh C. Tonwar : A search for antiprotons in cosmic ray flux at TeV energies
A. K. Tickoo, K. K. Yadav, M. K. Koul, S. Thoudam, V. K. Dhar,
K. Venugopal, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, P. Chandra, H. C. Goyal,
R. K. Kaul, M. Kothari, S. Kotwal, R. Koul, R. C. Rannot,
S. Sahayanathan and M. Sharma : TeV energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula
as measured by the TACTIC gamma-ray telescope
Nirupam Roy, Jayaram N. Chengalur and R. Srianand : A multi
wavelength investigation of the temperature of the cold neutral ISM
Sambaran Banerjee and Pranab Ghosh : Diagnostics of the Milky Way's star
formation history
Ankan Das, Sandip K. Chakrabarti, Sonali Chakrabarti and Kinsuk
Acharyya : Monte Carlo simulation of molecular hydrogen formation in grain
surfaces
Arpita Srivastava, Amit Pathak and Shantanu Rastogi : PAHs incorporat
ing cyclopentadienyl ring and their astrophysical relevance
Amit Pathak and Shantanu Rastogi : Vibrational spectra of PAHs and the
astrophysical IR bands
B. G. Anandarao, V. Venkataraman, S. K. Ghosh, D. K. Ojha and S.
Vig : Near-infrared photometry and radio continuum observations of the massive
star-forming region IRAS 21413+5442
S. Vig, S. K. Ghosh, D. K. Ojha and R. P. Verma : Infrared study of the
southern Galactic star forming region associated with IRAS 14416-5937
S. Vig, S. K. Ghosh, V. K. Kulkarni, D. K. Ojha and R. P. Verma : Radio
and infrared study of the region associated with the molecular cloud complex NGC
6334
A. Tej, D. K. Ojha, S. K. Ghosh, S. Vig, V. K. Kulkarni, R. P. Verma
and T. P. Prabhu : Multiwavelength study of massive star forming region IRAS
06055+2039
Suresh Chandra, pRAMOD g. musrif and Ram M. Dharmkare : Suggestions
for an interstellar C7H2 search
P. P. Saxena : Production of nitric oxide (NO) in hot molecular core SgrB2(M)
Suresh Chandra, Pramod G. Musrif and Ram M. Dharmkare : Anomalous
absorption in formaldehyde in cosmic objects
396 eXTRA-GALACtic astronomy and cosmology
Jayanti Prasad : Gravitational collapse in an expanding background and the
effect of small scale perturbations on large scales
Saumyadip Samui, Raghunathan Srianand and Kandaswamy Subra
manian : Reionization of the Universe
Neeraj Gupta, Tapasi Ghosh, S. Jeyakumar, D. J. Saikia, C. J. Salter
and R. Srianand : Probing the radio source environments using absorption lines
A. Omar and K. S. Dwarakanath : The Eridanus group of galaxies : key results
Surajit Dasgupta and G. C. Dewangan : Evidence for
relativistic out flow of
ionized material from the nuclei of active galaxies
Ananda Hota, D. J. Saikia and J. A. Irwin : Outflows from three active
galaxies : NGC1482, NGC4438 and NGC6764
K. S. Baliyan, U. C. Joshi and S. Ganesh : Monitoring of the blazars from
Mt Abu IR observatory
C. S. Stalin and R. Srianand : The nature of the peculiar QSO SDSS
J153259.96-003944
C. S. Stalin, Gopal-Krishna, Ram Sagar, Paul J. Wiita, V. Mohan and
A. K. Pandey : Multiband optical monitoring of the blazars S5 0716+714 and
BL Lacertae
Laxmikant Chaware, Sudhansu Barway, S. K. Pandey, A. K. Kembhavi
and D. K. Sahu : Dust properties of NGC3801
V. N. Pandey and N. Udaya Shankar : A steradian of the southern sky from
the Mauritius Radio Telescope
S. Thoudam, K. K. Yadav, R. C. Rannot, S. Sahayanathan, M. Sharma,
K. Venugopal, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, P. Chandra, V. K. Dhar,
H. C. Goyal, S. Godambe, R. K. Kaul, M. Kothari, S. Kotwal, R. Koul
and A. K. Tickoo : VHE observations of H1426+428 using TACTIC imaging
telescope : 2004 observations
R. C. Rannot, P. Chandra, S. Thoudam, K. K. Yadav, M. Sharma,
K. Venugopal, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, V. K. Dhar, H. C. Goyal,
S. Godambe, R. K. Kaul, M. Kothari, S. Kotwal, R. Koul, A. K. Tickoo
and S. Sahayanathan : Study of TeV photons from Mrk 421 with the TACTIC
gamma-ray telescope : 2004 observations
S. V. Godambe, S. Thoudam, R. C. Rannot, P. Chandra, A. K. Tickoo,
S. Sahaynathan, M. Sharma, K. Venugopal, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya,
V. K. Dhar, H. C. Goyal, R. K. Kaul, M. Kothari, S. Kotwal, R. Koul
and K. K. Yadav : Recent TeV observations of 1ES2344+514 with the TACTIC
telescope
D. K. Sahu and G. C. Anupama : Photometric study of Type Ia Supernova
SN 2002hu
Christian Zier : On which scales jets are bent to Z-shapes?
D. K. Chakraborty, Arun Kumar Singh and Firdous : Intrinsic shapes of
elliptical galaxies
U. S. Pandey and S. K. Tiwari : On the perturbation of a self-gravitating
gaseous disk
Annapurni Subramaniam and T. P. Prabhu : Kinematic evidence of coun
terrotation in the central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud
K. S. V. S. Narasimhan, S. N. Hasan and S. M. Alladin : The dynamics
of ejecting stellar systems
Kuntal Misra, S. B. Pandey, Ram Sagar and D. Bhattacharya : Recent
observations of GRB afterglows from ARIES, Nainital
Debbijoy Bhattacharya and P. Sreekumar : Contribution from normal galax
ies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background
408 Instrumentation
M. L. Sapru, A. K. Tickoo, S. Thoudam, R. C. Rannot and R. Koul :
Threshold energy estimates of the proposed MACE gamma-ray telescope at Hanle
Pravata Kumar Mohanty : Angular resolution of the GRAPES-3 array for UHE
gamma-ray astronomy
Ginu Rajan, Jayant Murthy and B. Raghavendra Prasad : Methods to
study the darkcount rate and spatial resolution of the ICCD
K. Nagaraju, K. Sankarasubramanian, K. B. Ramesh and K. E. Rangara
jan : Study of modulation and demodulation schemes for a two beam polarimeter
K. B. Ramesh, K. Nagaraju, K. E. Rangarajan, K. Sankarasubramanian
and J. Singh : A two-beam spectropolarimeter for Kodaikanal Tower Telescope
A. Raghunathan and N. Udaya Shankar : A non planar trapezoidal structure
for broad band applications in radio astronomy
R. DuraiChelvan, M. O. Modgekar, C. M. Ateequlla and N. Udaya
Shankar : Modal analysis and surface metrology of the RRI 12m preloaded par
abolic dish
P. V. Rishin, Sabir Hussein Syed, J. Aruna, N. Udaya Shankar and
A. Krishnan : Design of a control system for the RRI 12m radio telescope
N. Udaya Shankar, B. S. Girish, K. S. Srivani and K. S. Manjunath :
Comparison of FPGA-based spectrometers using conventional Fourier transform
and number theoretic transforms
A. Raja Bayanna, R. Sridharan and P. Venkatakrishnan : Phase diversity
technique for high resolution solar imaging
Brajesh Kumar, R. Sridharan, A. Raja Bayanna and P. Venkatakrish
nan : Preliminary results on the calibration and control of an adaptive optics
system
K. G. Gupta, R. K. S. Yadav, T. Bangia, T. S. Kumar and N. Sharma :
Redesigning ARIES Baker-Nunn camera for wide field CCD imaging
R. Sridharan, A. Raja Bayanna, Brajesh Kumar, P. Venkatakrishnan
and C. U. Keller : An image stabilization system for solar observations
P. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sridharan and S. K. Gupta : Imaging with insolated
mirrors
R. C. Rannot, A. K. Tickoo, D. Dumora, J. Procureur and R. Koul :
Study of polarization and temporal properties of atmospheric Cerenkov light :
simulations
417 Erratum: Sneh Lata:Mass function study of six open
clusters To 5, Be 15, Be 71 and King 1 (BASI, (2005) 33, 51-66)
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