ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA CONFERENCE SERIES

Volume 4

RECENT ADVANCES IN STAR FORMATION: OBSERVATIONS AND THEORY

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India
June 28 - July 01, 2011

Editors: Annapurni Subramanian and Sumedh Anathpindika

Contents

Foreward [PDF]
Organizing Committees[PDF]
Participants
Conference Photograph[PDF]

I. LOW MASS STAR-FORMATION

1  The outburst and nature of young eruptive low mass stars in dark clouds [Abstracts] [PDF]
       J. P. Ninan, D. K. Ojha, B. C. Bhatt, K. K. Mallick, A. Tej, D. K. Sahu, S. K. Ghosh and V. Mohan

9  Optical polarimetry: tracing magnetic fields in Bok globules [Abstracts] [PDF]
      G. Maheswar and Archana Soam

13  New insights into the earliest phases of low-mass star formation with the Herschel Space Observatory [Abstracts] [PDF]
      J. Di Francesco

23  Understanding properties of dust in star forming clouds: polarization vs extinction [Abstracts] [PDF]
      A. K. Sen

29  Flamingos near-infrared study of the Serpens cloud [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Priya Hasan

II. STAR-FORMATION REGIONS AND PROTOSTELLAR DISKS

35  Protoplanetary disk masses in the Orion nebula cluster [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Rita K. Mann and Jonathan P. Williams

45 Disk dispersal and photoevaporation [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Uma Gorti

III. TRIGGERED STAR-FORMATION

55 High mass star formation in the Herschel era: highlights of the HOBYS key program [Abstracts] [PDF]
      C. Fallscheer

63 Star formation in and around bright-rimmed clouds [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Neelam Chauhan

69 The contagion of star-formation: its origin [Abstracts] [PDF]
      S. Anathpindika

77 The mid-infrared bubble Sh2-90: a possible case of triggered star formation? [Abstracts] [PDF]
      M. R. Samal

IV. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS AND JETS

81 Star formation in and around young star clusters associated with HII regions [Abstracts] [PDF]
      A. K. Pandey

91 Young stellar population in the star-forming complex Sh2-252 [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Jessy Jose, A. K. Pandey, K. Ogura and B. C. Bhatt

97  The enigma of jets and outflows from young stars [Abstracts] [PDF]
      D. Coffey

107  Young stellar objects and their environment [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Rumpa Choudhury

V. STAR CLUSTERS

113  The IMF of intermediate-mass stars in young star clusters [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Ram Sagar and Brijesh Kumar

121  Duration of star formation in young open clusters [Abstracts] [PDF]
      B. Bhavya, A. Subramaniam and V. C. Kuriakose

125  Gas dynamical friction on prestellar clumps and open clusters [Abstracts] [PDF]
      K. Indulekha, K. Ambili and C. J. Jog

VI. EXTRA-GALACTIC STAR FORMATION

131  Extragalactic star formation rate -- estimates at different wavelengths [Abstracts] [PDF]
       T. P. Prabhu

139  Recent star formation history of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds [Abstracts] [PDF]
       G. Indu and Annapurni Subramaniam

145  On the low rate of star formation in LSB galaxies [Abstracts] [PDF]
       Chanda J. Jog

153  Star formation in bulgeless late type spiral Galaxies [Abstracts] [PDF]
      M. Das, S. Ramya, C. Sengupta and K. Mishra

159  Star formation in blue compact dwarf Galaxies [Abstracts] [PDF]
      S. Ramya, T. P. Prabhu and D. K. Sahu

VII. FUTURE DEVELOPEMENTS IN INDIAN ASTRONOMY

165  Upcoming Indian facility: UVIT on ASTROSAT [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Annapurni Subramaniam

173  New optical telescopes at Devasthal observatory : 1.3-m installed and 3.6-m upcoming [Abstracts] [PDF]
       Ram Sagar, Brijesh Kumar, Amitesh Omar and Yogesh C. Joshi

POSTER PRESENTATION

181  Broadband optical polarimetric studies of Be 59 [Abstracts] [PDF]
      C. Eswaraiah and A. K. Pandey

185  Study of star formation in young Magellanic Cloud clusters [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Smriti Vats, Annapurni Subramaniam, K. T. Paul, K. M. Divya, Smitha Subramanian

187  A multiwavelength study of Galactic HII region S297 [Abstracts]
      K. K. Mallick, D. K. Ojha, M. R. Samal, A. K. Pandey, S. K. Ghosh, B. C. Bhatt and M. Tamura

189  First light observations with TIFR Near Infrared Imaging Camera (TIRCAM-II) [Abstracts]
      D. K. Ojha, S. K. Ghosh, S. L. A. D'Costa, M. B. Naik, P. R. Sandimani, S. S. Poojary, S. B. Bhagat, R. B. Jadhav, G. S. Meshram, C. B. Bakalkar, A. N. Ramaprakash,V. Mohan and J. Joshi

191  TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager (TIRSPEC) [Abstracts]
      D. K. Ojha, S. K. Ghosh, S. L. A. D'Costa, M. B. Naik, P. R. Sandimani, S. S. Poojary, S. B. Bhagat, R. B. Jadhav, G. S. Meshram and C. B. Bakalkar

193  Carbon enhanced metal poor (CEMP) stars and the early stellar population of the Galaxy [Abstracts] [PDF]
      T. Sivarani, D. Carollo, T. C. Beers and D. Lai

195  Deep NIR JHKs observations of HII region Sh 2-311 [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Ram Kesh Yadav, A. K. Pandey, Saurabh Sharma, M. R. Samal and Neelam Chauhan

197  The chemical abundances of open clusters: NGC 752, NGC 1817, NGC 2360 and NGC 2506 [Abstracts] [PDF]
      Arumalla B. S. Reddy, Sunetra Giridhar and David L. Lambert

201 Author Index [PDF]

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