The Open Journal for Astrophysics is Open for Test Submissions!

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Dear Colleagues, The “Open Journal for Astrophysics” is completely free both for submission and for access; there are no Author Processing Charges and no subscription payments. All papers will be fully peer-reviewed. All this is provided free by members of the astrophysics community as a service to the astrophysics community. Read More: http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/the-open-journal-for-astrophysics-is-open-for-test-submissions/ With Regards,…

Comet ISON Photo Contest

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Discover is hosting the Comet ISON Photo Contest, together with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences, and Astronomy magazine.   The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. You can submit images online at www.nsf.gov/comet beginning October 15, 2013, through January 15, 2014. Judges will consider images in three categories; in…

Complete Access to all Emerald eJournals

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Dear Colleagues,     Emerald Publishing has announced complete access to all Emerald eJournals for a month (between November 1 and 30, 2013). This complete access will enable you, to download / read articles that are not part of our current subscription to Emerald eJournals.   The following are the link to access the content, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/  …

A New SPIE Journal “Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS)” will launch in mid-2014

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Dear Colleagues, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced it will launch the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), covering fundamental research and applications focused on the full range of astronomical instrumentation. JATIS will launch in mid-2014. For more information: http://spie.org/x103617.xml With Regards, Librarian

New Books Display November 2013

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               Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library                              Koramangala                          Bangalore – 560 034                                 India            List of Books Displayed on 7th November 2013 1  Bennett, Jeffrey  , Donahue, Megan  , Schneider, Nicholas and Voit, Mark The cosmic perspective: the solar system.–7th ed.– San Francisco: Pearson Education, 2014. 52/ BEN 19732 2  Bennett, Jeffrey O….

Research Papers Published in October 2013

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Full text of the research papers published in October 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository.   Bhavya, B., Subramaniam, A., Kuriakose, V. C., 2013, Study of Young Stellar Objects and Associated Filamentary Structures in the Inner Galaxy, MNRAS, 435, 663 Cui, W. Y., Sivarani, T., Christlieb, N., 2013, The Hamburg/ESO R-process…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013: François Englert and Peter W. Higgs

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Dear Colleagues, The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and…