The refinement of the brown dwarf binary fraction may contribute to the understanding of the substellar formation mechanisms. Peculiar brown dwarf spectra or...
Hunting for eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS
We give an overview of a project aiming to identify new eclipsing post common envelope binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This work focuses on the...
Hunting for red supergiant binaries: UVIT photometry of the SMC
. We present UVIT/Astrosat UV photometry of the RSG population of the Small Cloud galaxy (SMC). As RSGs are extremely faint in the far-UV, these observations...
We are undertaking an ambitious proper motion survey of massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud using the unique capabilities of...
HVC's Favouring Star Forming Processes in galaxy discs: a basic calculation and some recent HI observations
Indirect evidence from detailed chemical evolution studies shows that infall of low metallicity gas appears to have proceeded at a rather constant rate during...
Hybrid instrument for turbulence detection: wavefront sensing and scintillation detection in a fully automatic device
In the planning stage of extremely large telescopes, site testing and study of high performance adaptive optics systems plays very important roles. Site testing...
Hydrodynamical simulations of Multiple Shell Planetary Nebulae
We present hydrodynamical simulations of multiple shell planetary nebulae (MSPN) formation using evolutionary models of 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3.5 and 5 M_odot...
New spectra of A78 and A58 at different positions in the nebulae are presented. An abundance gradient is found in A78, extending quite close to the center...