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Fazlu Rahman The journey started around 7 PM CET from the Trento station. The white Volvo bus began ascending the curly routes and curvy paths, while we were busy making new friends. We were around fifty students, doing masters and PhD in different parts of the globe, came to attend the 13th version of Tonale…
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Soft Actuators for the Thirty Meter Telescope
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Glimpses of memories at IAO-Hanle (Part-II)
Indian Astronomical Observatory: 25 Years B C Bhatt, Dorje Angchuk & Man Singh In Ladakh, there are only two seasons. One is winter (October to April), and the other is Summer (May to September). That’s why business activities start as soon as the surface transport opens in May, and all resources reach Ladakh in the…
Chromospheric heating by acoustic shock waves
Harsh Mathur The chromosphere is the most dynamic layer of the solar atmosphere, located between the bright solar surface and the million-degree hot corona. It is the region above the photosphere where the plasma is not in radiative equilibrium, and hydrogen is predominantly neutral, resulting in the characteristic Hα spectral line. The non-thermal energy that…
