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The scientific legacy of Thanu Padmanabhan
Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan, one of the stalwarts of theoretical physics, and a shining star of the Indian scientific community, left his mortal abode on the 17th of September this year....
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Shedding Light on the Cosmic Web with Fast Radio Bursts
Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Their dispersion measures are sensitive to the presence of ionized matter along their lines of sight. This unique measurable makes FRBs a promising cosmological probe that can shed light on...
Identifying emission-line stars from a large spectroscopic database
We present a catalog of 3339 hot emission-line stars (ELS) identified from 451,695 O, B, and A type spectra, provided by the LAMOST DR5 release. We developed an automated python routine that identified 5437 spectra having a peak between 6561...
Bar Buckling and Boxy/Peanut Bulges as the Tracer of Dark Matter Halo Shape
Galaxies reside in the deep potential of invisible matter called dark matter. Their dynamics is significantly affected by the distribution of dark matter around them. Distribution of dark matter around galaxies is usually known as dark matter halo. Most of...
Measuring the age of the Universe: An overview
A popular article exploring how the age of the Universe was calculated.
Futuristic gravitational wave observations to resolve dichotomy of compact objects
Gravitational waves are invisible ripples in space travel at the speed of light. It is generated in different scenarios, such as when two celestial bodies orbit around each other, an isolated body with tri-axial symmetry spins, inhomogeneity in matter distribution...
Magnetic Field Measurements of the Solar Corona by Aditya L1
One of the science goals of the Aditya L1 is to map the coronal magnetic field topology. The infrared channel of the VELC payload of the Aditya L1 is equipped with a spectropolarimeter to perform full stokes spectropolarimetric observations in...
