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…

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…

  Waves and Oscillations in Nature: An Introduction By A Satya Narayanan, Swapan K Saha CRC Press – 2015 – 544 pages Reviews 1: The Observatory_Feb_2016 Reviews 2: ZbMath

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  The book speaks more than what the title suggest. This is not only the story of the foremost scientists of India who rose to the top by his merit…

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…

Dear Professor Roy,   My dear friend, Atri Mukhopadhyay, sent me your email address since I could not get it from any other source. I wanted to get in touch with you after Mr Devanath of Universities Press, Hyderabad told me that you were kind enough to review our (Chatterjee’s and mine) book on K…