ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA CONFERENCE SERIES

Volume 1

INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND STAR FORMATION: A MULTI-WAVELENGTH PERSPECTIVE

Proceedings of an international workshop held as part of the Homi Bhabha Birth Centenary Celebrations

TIFR National Balloon Facility, Hyderabad, India
October 5-7, 2009

Editor: D. K. Ojha

Contents

Cover [PDF]
The cover illustrates the star-forming region N90 (Credit: NASA, ESA and Hubble collaboration)
with insets of Dr Homi Jehangir Bhabha (founder of TIFR), the Initial Mass Function of the W3
star-forming region (Credit: Subaru Telescope, NAOJ) and the TIFR 100-cm balloon-borne telescope.
Preface [PDF]
Foreword[PDF]
Participants[PDF]
Conference Photograph[PDF]

I. INVITED AND CONTRIBUTED TALKS

1. Molecular Clouds, Embedded Clusters, Triggered Star Formation, Initial Mass Function

1  The structure of molecular clouds [PDF]
       D. Froebrich and J. Rowles

11  Star formation influenced by OB stars [PDF]
      Wen Ping Chen

19  Triggered star formation associated with HII regions [PDF]
      Katsuo Ogura

27  The structures of embedded clusters [PDF]
      Stefan Schmeja

37 Star formation and IMF of young clusters associated with HII regions [PDF]
      A. K. Pandey

43 Multi-wavelength studies of Galactic HII regions [PDF]
      M. R. Samal, A. K. Pandey, D. K. Ojha, I. Zinchenko, B.C. Bhatt, S. K. Ghosh and B. Pandey

2. Circumstellar Dust, PAH, H2 Formation

49 Dust formation by massive stars studied by infrared observations with AKARI/IRC and Subaru/COMICS [PDF]
      Itsuki Sakon, Takashi Onaka, Kentaro Asano, Ryou Ohsawa, Hidehiro Kaneda, Takao Nakagawa,
      Takaya Nozawa, Yoshiko Okamoto, Takuya Fujiyoshi, Fumihiko Usui, Hirokazu Kataza, Hideo Matsuhara and Hiroshi Murakami

57 Infrared emission from the composite grains: Application to circumstellar dust [PDF]
      Deepak B. Vaidya and Ranjan Gupta

63 Mapping dust column density in dark clouds using NIR scattered light [PDF]
      Yasushi Nakajima

3. Circumstellar Disks, Jets, Outflows

71 On circumstellar disks: Spitzer identifies two possible evolutionary paths [PDF]
      Paula S. Teixeira, Charles J. Lada, Massimo Marengo and Elizabeth Lada

79 Feedback through molecular outflows [PDF]
      Michael W. Knight

85 Spectroscopy of Be stars in young open clusters [PDF]
      Blesson Mathew and Annapurni Subramaniam

4. Star Formation and ISM in Nearby Galaxies, Magellanic Clouds

91 AKARI far-infrared observations of the ISM in nearby galaxies [PDF]
      H. Kaneda, T. Suzuki, M. Yamagishi, T. Onaka, D. Ishihara, I. Sakon, T. Shimonishi and I. Takase

99 Observational study of ice around extragalactic Young Stellar Objects with AKARI [PDF]
      Takashi Shimonishi, Takashi Onaka, Daisuke Kato, Itsuki Sakon, Yoshifusa Ita, Akiko Kawamura and Hidehiro Kaneda

107 Internal and foreground reddening maps of the Magellanic Clouds [PDF]
      Annapurni Subramaniam and Smitha Subramanian

111 Radio observations of bulgeless late type galaxies [PDF]
      Mousumi Das and C. Sengupta

5. Magnetic Fields, Polarization Studies of Star Forming Regions, Dense Cores

117 Tracing magnetic field orientation in starless cores [PDF]
      G. Maheswar, A. N. Ramaprakash, C.W. Lee and S. Dib

123 Broad-band optical polarimetric studies of NGC 1893 [PDF]
      C. Eswaraiah, A. K. Pandey, G. Maheswar, B. J. Medhi, J. C. Pandey and D. K. Ojha

6. Young Protostars, ISM, Massive Star Formation

127 Recent results from the infrared satellite AKARI [PDF]
      Takashi Onaka, Itsuki Sakon, Hideaki Fujiwara, Takashi Shimonishi, Ho-Gyu Lee,
      Daisuke Ishihara, Hidehiro Kaneda and Yoko Okada

135 Young stars and protostellar cores near NGC 2023 [PDF]
      B. Mookerjea, G. Sandell, T. H. Jarrett and J. McMullin

141 Multi-wavelength investigation of a massive toroidal candidate G24.78+0.08-A2 [PDF]
      S. Vig, R. Cesaroni, L. Testi, M. T. Beltran and C. Codella

147 Massive star formation studies with GLIMPSE [PDF]
      M. S. N. Kumar, J. M. C. Grave and L. K. Dewangan

155 Studies of the ISM using the GMRT [PDF]
      Subhashish Roy

161 Distribution of interstellar matter in the direction of LN45 [PDF]
      U. C. Joshi, S. Ganesh and K. S. Baliyan

7. Current and Future Infrared Surveys

167 Infrared astronomy in India with balloons [PDF]
      S. K. Ghosh

171 Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS) payload for an Indian satellite. [PDF]
      S. K. Ghosh

8. Science with Indian Facilities

177 Space astronomy in India: 43 years and counting [PDF]
      R. K. Manchanda

193 Science with Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle [PDF]
      T. P. Prabhu and G. C. Anupama

203 New initiatives in optical astronomy at ARIES [PDF]
      Ram Sagar, Brijesh Kumar, Amitesh Omar and A. K. Pandey

211 PRL Mt. Abu Observatory: New initiatives [PDF]
      B. G. Anandarao and A. Chakraborty

II.  POSTER PAPERS

217 Isolated infrared nebula (IRAS 16148-5011) and evidence of triggered star formation [PDF]
       S. S. Borgaonkar, D. K. Ojha, T. Nagayama, M. Tamura, S. K. Ghosh and M. R. Samal

221 Star formation in bright-rimmed clouds and associated clusters [PDF]
      N. Chauhan, A. K. Pandey, K. Ogura and J. Jose

225 Bright-rimmed clouds and young stellar objects in IC 1396 [PDF]
      R. Choudhury and H. C. Bhatt

229 The dynamics of mass segregation in star clusters [PDF]
      P. Hasan and S. N. Hasan

233 Multi-wavelength study of the young cluster NGC 1624 [PDF]
      J. Jose, A. K. Pandey, K. Ogura, D. K. Ojha, B. C. Bhatt, M. R. Samal and N. Chauhan

237 Second outburst phase of McNeil's nebula (V1647 Orionis) [PDF]
      S. S. Kaurav, D. K. Ojha, J. P. Ninan, B. C. Bhatt, D. K. Sahu, S. K. Ghosh and A. Tej

239 Infrared study of the interstellar medium around IRAS 16164-5046 (RCW 106) [PDF]
      K. Lakhchaura, J. Paul K., S. K. Ghosh and D. K. Ojha

243 Post-outburst phase of LDN 1415 nebula (IRAS 04376+5413) [PDF]
      V. S. Pawade, D. K. Ohja, J. P. Ninan, A. Tej, B. C. Bhatt, D. K. Sahu, S. K. Ghosh, S. S. Kaurav and V. Mohan

245 Study of Galactic structure using ultra-violet surveys [PDF]
      S. S. Todmal, S. K. Ghosh, D. K. Ojha and A. C. Robin

249 Infrared imaging and spectroscopy of the (proto)cluster IRAS 18511+0146 [PDF]
      S. Vig, L. Testi, M. Walmsley and R. Cesaroni

253 Author Index [PDF]

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