Aperture Synthesis: Methods and Applications to Optical Astronomy Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library Saha, Swapan Kumar 1st Edition., 2011, XXIV, 468 p. 185 illus. ISBN 978-1-4419-5709-2 About this textbook:     Discusses the fundamentals of electromagnetic fields, wave optics, interference, diffraction, and imaging extensively     Deals with the fundamentals of stellar interferometry     Includes more than…

Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan His LIFE and WORK by  D C V Mallik and S Chatterje, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru University Press (India) Pvt Ltd, 2012 A fascinating biography written in excellent English with a touch of humour and mischief and a great detail of the scientific work of Dr. K S Krishnan………. Read More……..

High Resolution Imaging: Detectors and Applications Swapan K. Saha Pan Stanford – 2015 – 600 pages 9789814613279 About this Book: Interferometric observations need snapshots of very high time resolution of the order of (i) frame integration of about 100 Hz or (ii) photon-recording rates of several megahertz (MHz). Detectors play a key role in astronomical…

Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan His LIFE and WORK by D C V Mallik and S Chatterje, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru University Press (India) Pvt Ltd, 2012 This is an eminently readable account of not only the life and scientific contributions of Sir K. S. Krishnan FRS but also in many ways, the history of the…

A World Class Scientist and His Work Shobhit Mahajan KARIAMANIKKAM SRINIVASA KRISHNAN: HIS LIFE AND WORK By D.C.V. Mallik & S. Chatterjee University Press, Hyderabad, 2012, pp. 461, Rs. 895.00 One of the curious paradoxes of the sociology of science concerns the flowering of world class science in India in the early decades of the…

Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction By A Satya Narayanan, Swapan K Saha CRC Press – 2015 – 544 pages About this Book: Waves and oscillations are found in large scales (galactic) and microscopic scales (neutrino) in nature. Their dynamics and behavior heavily depend on the type of medium through which they propagate. Waves…