While many pundits and prognosticators lament the supposed end of the world on December 21, 2012 (thanks to misinterpreting Mayan predictions), here at the ASP we encourage everyone to go in the opposite – and accurate — direction. Thus, we are declaring December 12, 2012 as Anti-Doomsday Day in celebration of rational thinking and reasoned…
Full text of the research papers published in November 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Garcia-Hernandez, D. A., Kameswara Rao, N., Lambert, D. L, 2012, High-resolution Optical Spectroscopy of DY Cen: Diffuse Interstellar Bands in a Proto-fullerene Circumstellar Environment?, ApJL, 759, L21 Krishna Prasad, S., Banerjee, D., Singh, J, 2012, Oscillations…
List of Books Displayed on 30th Nov 2012 1 Al-Khalili, Jim Black holes, wormholes, and time machines.–2nd ed.– Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2012. 19267 2 Bottcher, Markus, Harris, Daniel E. and Krawczynski, Henric, eds., Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei.– Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012. 19271 3 Cengel, Yunus A. and…
Full text of the research papers published in October 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Gupta, G. R., Teriaca, L., Marsch, E., Solanki, S. K., Banerjee, D, 2012, Spectroscopic observations of propagating disturbances in a polar coronal hole: evidence of slow magneto-acoustic waves, A&A, 546, A93 Krishna Prasad, S., Banerjee, D.,…
To support the ‘International Open Access Week‘ event observed all over the world between 22nd to 28th Oct., 2012, IIA library has designed a poster with the theme of promoting Open Access Journals. This poster is displayed in the campus.
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Full text of the research papers published in September 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Gupta, A. C., Krichbaum, T. P., Wiita, P. J., Rani, B., Sokolovsky, K. V., Mohan, Prashanth., Mangalam, A., Marchili, N., Fuhrmann, L., Agudo, I., Bach, U., Bachev, R., Böttcher, M., Gabanyi, K. E., Gaur, H.,…
Prof. G. C. Anupama has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Allahabad for the year 2012. Congratulations to Prof. Anupama. Library, IIA, Bangalore
The colorful history of one of astronomy’s rarest events — the transit of Venus — was discussed at the recent IAU conference in Beijing, China. Posted by Naomi Pasachoff, September 10, 2012 For more details please follow the link, http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/The-Transit-of-Venus-Deaths-and-Dilemmas-in-History-169181336.html
