Name: National conference on REcent Trends in the study of Compact Objects (RETCO-V): Theory and Observation
Start: 2023-04-03T08:00:00+05:30
End: 2023-04-05T20:30:00+05:30
Location: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory

National conference on REcent Trends in the study of Compact Objects (RETCO-V): Theory and Observation

from Monday, April 3, 2023 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, April 5, 2023 (8:30 PM)

Monday, April 3, 2023

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:40 AM

8:45 AM Inauguration
Inauguration
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Auditorium
9:00 AM Session 1
Session 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Do plasma composition affect physics around compact objects? - Indranil Chattopadhyay (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES))

9:30 AM Global structure of shock-induced general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics accretion flows around black holes - Samik Mitra (IIT GUWAHATI)

9:45 AM Viscous accretion flows around the black hole. - Sanjit Debnath (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES))

10:00 AM Properties of relativistic hot accretion flow around rotating black hole with radially varying viscosity. - Monu Singh (IIT Guwahati)

10:15 AM Study of the relativistic accretion flow in a Kerr-Taub-NUT black-hole with shock - GARGI SEN (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
10:30 AM Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session 2
Session 2
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Review of accretion: spherical to magnetized and disk accretion, and explaining soft to hard X-ray sources - Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science)

11:30 AM 3D global General Relativistic MHD simulations of strongly magnetized thin accretion disks - Bhupendra Mishra (HRI)

11:55 AM Three Dimensional Simulations of Advective, Sub-Keplerian Accretion Flow onto Non-rotating Black Holes - Sudip Garain (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata)

12:20 PM Numerical simulation of radiatively driven jets around black holes. - RAJ KISHOR JOSHI (ARIES, Nainital, India)

12:35 PM Origin of core radio emissions from BH in the realm of relativistic shocked accretion flow - Santabrata Das (IIT Guwahati)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 1
Session 1
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM An overview of outbursting black hole X-ray binaries - Samir Mandal (IIST, Trivandrum)

2:30 PM Exploring accretion disc dynamics in extragalactic stellar mass black hole X-ray binaries - Bhuvana G.R (Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru)

2:45 PM Detection of possibly the heaviest black hole in Galactic X-ray binaries - Sandeep Rout (Physical Research Laboratory)

3:00 PM Type-B and type-C QPOs and their association with Comptonization region and jet - Harikrishna Sripada

3:15 PM Spectral and temporal analysis of the BHC MAXI J1348-630 during two major outbursts of 2019 - Riya Bhowmick (Indian Centre for Space Physics)

3:30 PM Hard X-ray spectral states in Cygnus X-1 and its polarisation dependence using AstroSat - Abhay Kumar (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)
3:45 PM Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session 2
Session 2
4:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Spectro-timing properties of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348–630 using AstroSat Observations - Jithesh V (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru)

4:50 PM AstroSat-NuSTAR monitoring of GX 339-4 and H 1743-322 : Broadband spectro-temporal analyses - ANEESHA U (IIT GUWAHATI)

5:05 PM AstroSat view of Energy-dependent time-lag properties of High Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) of GRS 1915+105 - Prajjwal Majumder (Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati, West Bengal)

5:20 PM Study of the spectral and temporal properties of EXO 1846-031 during the rising phase of its 2019 outburst - Sujoy Kumar Nath (Indian Centre for Space Physics)

5:35 PM Wideband spectral analysis of the brightest Black Hole X-ray Binary 4U 1543-47 in the 2021 Outburst - Geethu Prabhakar (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum)
5:50 PM Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
5:50 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Auditorium

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:55 AM
9:00 AM Session 1
Session 1
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Gamma-ray Emission from Cosmic Beacons - Vaidehi Paliya (IUCAA)

9:25 AM Survey of Bare Active Galactic Nuclei in local universe (z < 0.2): On the origin of Soft-Excess - Prantik Nandi (Post Doctoral Fellow in PRL)

9:40 AM Multi-wavelength study of the AGN MCG-2-58-22 with AstroSat - Savithri H Ezhikode (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore)

9:55 AM Investigation of a small flaring event in NLS1 galaxy NGC 4051 - Neeraj Kumari (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)

10:10 AM Gamma ray emission from extended jets of low luminosity AGNs - Gunjan Tomar (Raman Research Institute)

10:25 AM What decides the characteristic emission of blazars? - BAHEEJA C (University of Calicut)
10:40 AM Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
10:40 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Session 2
Session 2
11:15 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 AM High Energy Studies of Blazar: Challenges - Sunder Sahayanathan (Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai)

11:40 AM Coronal Properties of Low-Accreting AGNs using NuSTAR Observations - Arka Chatterjee (University of Manitoba)

11:55 AM Tracing the evolution of ultraluminous infrared galaxies into powerful radio-loud galaxies - Sumana Nandi (Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education)

12:10 PM On the properties of corona in Seyfert 1 galaxies - Indrani Pal (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:25 PM Multiwavelength study of obscured AGN NGC 1365 using AstroSat X-ray/UVIT observations - Subhashree Swain (IIA Bengaluru)
12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 1
Session 1
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Spin evolution of millisecond pulsars - Sudip Bhattacharyya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

2:30 PM Ambiguous Nuclear Transients - Rupak Roy (MCNS, MAHE)

2:50 PM Study of High-Mass X-Ray Binary Pulsar SMC X-2 during the 2015 Outburst - Kinjal Roy (Raman Research Institute)

3:05 PM Broad-band mHz QPOs and spectral study of LMC X-4 with AstroSat - Rahul Sharma (Raman Research Institute)

3:20 PM A detailed study of the thermonuclear X-ray Bursts source 4U 1728-34 with AstroSat - Anirudh Salgundi (IIT Bombay)

3:35 PM Detection possibility of continuous gravitational waves from rotating magnetized neutron stars - Mayusree Das (Indian Institute of Science)

3:50 PM Probing thermonuclear bursts from millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195 using simultaneous NuSTAR and NICER observation - MANOJ MANDAL (Midnapore City College)
4:05 PM Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
4:05 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Auditorium
4:40 PM Session 1
Session 1
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:40 PM An accurate pseudo-Kerr formalism and its application to study transonic flows around black holes - Abhrajit Bhattacharjee (ICSP, Kolkata)

4:50 PM Revisiting the Black hole binary XTE J1859+226 to understand the disk-jet coupling. - SREETAMA DAS CHOUDHURY (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI)

5:00 PM Discovery of giant radio quasars from TGSS-ADR1: new sample and associated AGN properties - Souvik Manik (MIdnapore City College, Vidyasagar University)

5:10 PM Probing the homogeneity / diversity in Type Ia supernova explosions - Anirban Dutta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

5:20 PM Interpretation of GRB spectrum as an evolving Fireball - Soumya Gupta (HBNI, Mumbai)
5:30 PM Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM
6:00 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

6:00 PM Journey of X-ray Astronomy: Indian Perspectives - A R Rao (TIFR)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

8:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
8:00 AM - 8:55 AM
9:00 AM Session 2
Session 2
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing thermonuclear flares on neutron stars and their interaction with accretion - Manoneeta Chakraborty (IIT Indore)

9:20 AM Spectro-temporal studies of GX 9+1 using AstroSat - Shivappa Gudennavar (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru)

9:40 AM Unravelling properties of GX 3+1 through AstroSat observations - Neal Thomas (CHRIST (Deemed to be University))

9:55 AM The curious case of subpulse drifting and nulling in PSR J0026-1955 - Parul Janagal (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)

10:10 AM A study of the 2018 and 2021 outbursts of XTE J1946+274 and it's phase dependent cyclotron line - Ashwin Devaraj (Raman Research Institute)

10:25 AM AstroSat and NICER view of Be/X-ray binary 1A 0535+262 & Swift J0243.6+6124 - Birendra Chhotaray (Astronomy and Astrophysics Division,Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009, Gujarat, India)
10:40 AM Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee and Poster Viewing
10:40 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:15 AM Studying the accretion physics of two unique magnetic cataclysmic variables using broadband X-ray data - Anirban Dutta (Raman Research Institute)

11:30 AM SWIFT J0503.7-2819: a nearly synchronous intermediate polar below the period gap? - NIKITA RAWAT (ARIES, Nainital)

11:45 AM Multiwavelength observations and Optical spectra modeling of the extragalactic Novae M31N2008-12a - Judhajeet Basu (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

12:00 PM Ultra-violet variability of compact objects observed with UVIT - RESHMA M (Christ University Bangalore)
12:15 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

12:15 PM Revealing the accretion scenarios of BH-ULXs with XMM-Newton - Seshadri Majumder (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati)

12:30 PM A stellar mass ULX NGC 6946 X-1 and its super-Eddington accretion - Tanuman Ghosh (Raman Research Institute)
12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 2
Session 2
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Decoding the X-Ray Flare from MAXI J0709–159 using multi-epoch optical spectroscopic observations. - Suman Bhattacharyya (CHRIST(Deemed to be University))

2:10 PM Multi-wavelength emission from candidate neutrino blazars during different activity states - Athira M Bharathan (CHRIST (Deemed to be University))

2:20 PM Spectral and timing properties of GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER simultaneous view - Sree Bhattacherjee (Tezpur University)

2:30 PM Double-barred discs - a possible source of energy in the active galaxies' central engines - Debasish Mondal (University of Calcutta)

2:40 PM Study of Hybrid Morphology Radio galaxies identified from VLA FIRST survey at 1400 MHz - Shobha Kumari (Midnapore City College)

2:50 PM An optical follow-up study of the classical symbiotic outburst of TCP J18224935-2408280 - Sonith L S (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
3:00 PM Meeting Review and Closing Remarks
Meeting Review and Closing Remarks
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Auditorium

3:30 PM Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
Tea/Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM