Date of Posting: 20/06/2025
We, the ISSAC Group of Academicians, are happy to inform you that we have been able to sign a contract with Springer Nature for publishing an edited book as the proceedings based on our conference International Symposium on Space-Science Astrophysics and Cosmology- 2024 (hereafter ISSAC-2024) with every chapter authored by different authors and edited by the ISSAC Group of Academicians (hereafter ISSAC-GA). At present the ISSAC-GA members are
Chiranjib Konar, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India
Geetanjali Sethi, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, India
Shubhrangshu Ghosh, SRM University Sikkim, Gangtok, India
Ananda Hota, UM-DAE Centre for Excellence in basic Sciences, Mumbai, India
Sabyasachi Pal, Midnapore City College, Midnapur, India
We sincerely hope that each of the participants will submit a chapter. Please fill in the google form (link given below) to let us know that you WILL submit the chapter for the proceedings.
Google form Link: https://forms.gle/qCpkLQ69LbYQDHMq5
Deadline for submitting the google form: 23/06/2025 (1st deadline)
Deadline for submitting the chapter: 15/09/2025
Important points (to address the queries of a few participants):
1.. Please note that those who presented their new work in the conference and already published in a refereed journal can also submit a chapter based on your presentation in the conference. In this publication, you can write material presented in the conference in a completely different way, with newly drawn schematic diagram and newly generated telescopic image. In this book chapter, you can describe your subfield from which you presented in the conference to whatever extent you can, along with your recent new results to make it a good readable chapter.
2.. Our book title we have decided is “Recent Advances in Astrophysics and Cosmology towards the Mega Telescope Era”. It will be published in the Book Series entitled “Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings” published by “Springer Nature”. So, try to give a twist in your chapter in the direction of Mega Telescope Era in the sense of how the new upcoming big telescopes may be or would be relevant to your field. For theoreticians, please try to mention some of your observable predictions through the new telescope IF YOU CAN. This may generate a collaboration among some of the authors.
3.. Please note that this book series is indexed in Scopus.
[You can verify this here: https://link.springer.com/series/7395 . At the bottom of this page, it is mentioned.]
4.. Kindly note that this publication of the edited book is free of charge for the authors. St. Stephen’s College has been generous to bear the entire expense.
Some details are given below.
1.. Maximum number of pages: You can write is 11 to 12 pages. Not less than 11, not more than 12 is desirable.
2.. Latex template: We will send you a template
3.. Springer link for submission (with instructions): This is being set up by the publisher. We will soon let you know.
4.. Any other relevant details: Anything that will pop up will be conveyed to you throu email.
You can start preparing the text of the book chapter from now.
Regards,
Chiranjib Konar (Corresponding editor), AIAS, Amity Unov., Noida, U.P, India
Geetanjali Sethi, Dept. of Physics, St. Stephen's College, Univ. of Delhi, Delhi, India
Shubhrangshu Ghosh, SRM Univ. Sikkim, Gangtok, India
Ananda Hota, UM-DAE CEBS, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Mumbai, India
Sabyasachi Pal, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Midnapore City College, Midnapur, India
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A PRELIMINARY CONTENT OF THE BOOK AS PER OUR EXPECTATION
Part I Astronomical Facilities, Techniques and Their Science Goals
1. Yashwant Gupta: The SKAO: the Radio Astronomy Observatory of the Future
2. Wei-Hao Wang: Strategy and Major Astronomical Projects in Taiwan
3. Tarun Souradeep: Quests & Conquests: Gravitational Wave Science
4. Bhal Chandra Joshi: Progress Updates on Kiloparsec Wavelength Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with PTA Experiments
5. Poshak Gandhi: Fundamental Astrophysics with High Precision Astrometry
6. A. Gopakumar: On Persistent Multi-Messenger Nano-Hz GW Astronomy
7. Dipankar Banerjee: An Update on Aditya L1 Mission
8. Rupak Mukherjee: An In-House Developed Open-Source Software to Distinguish Knots.
9. Abhijeet Anand: Data Releases of DESI and Archetype-Based Redshift Estimation
Part II Compact Objects, Transients, Accretion
1. AR Rao: Black Hole X-ray Binaries and Gamma-Ray Bursts
2. Sudip Bhattacharyya: Probing a Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binary Using X-ray Spectral, Timing and Polarimetric Studies
3. Kulinder Pal Singh: Multi-Wavelength Studies of White Dwarf Binaries with the AstroSat
4. Indranil Chattopadhyay: Accretion Ejection Solution around Black Holes
5. Banibrata Mukhopadhyay: Accretion Around a Black Hole: Its Observation, Evolution and Current Understanding
6. Tanuman Ghosh: Super-Eddington Accretion onto a Stellar-Mass HLX
7. Mayank Pathak: Disk-Outflow Symbiosis in GRMHD Simulations: Explaining ULXs in Hard State
8. Rajiv Kumar: Simulation of Accretion Disk Structures Around Black Hole
9. M.C. Ramadevi: X-ray Sky Monitor for Different Class of X-ray Transients
10. K. Sriram: Study of Rapid Transitions of QPOs in Black Hole X-ray Binary Sources
11. Patrick Das Gupta: Cosmological Fast Radio Bursts: Bimodality in Their Radio Luminosity Distribution
12. Shantanu Desai: Search for High Energy Neutrinos from Pulsars and FRBs
13. Sudip Kumar Garain: General Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations Around Accreting Black Holes
14. Akshay Rana: Exploring the Variability of Type Ia Supernovae Luminosity
15. Shashi Bhushan Pandey: Energetic Transients and 3.6m DOT
16. Andrzej Zdziarski: What Are the Spins of Stellar-Mass Black Holes?
17. Surajit Kalita: From White Dwarfs to Fast Radio Bursts: Impact of Energy Scale on constraining Fundamental Constants
18. Meghamani Haldar: Investigating the Influence of Black Hole Spin on Fe k-alpha Line Emission and the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit (ISCO) in GX 339-4: Insights from NICER and NuSTAR
Part III Active Galactic Nuclei, Accretion and Feedback
1. Dhruba J Saikia: Active Galaxies: An Overview and Recent Results
2. Joydeep Bagchi: Probing the Formation of Megaparsec-Scale Giant Radio Galaxies: Insights from MHD Simulations
3. C.S. Stalin: Feeback Processes in AGN
4. Marek Jamrozy: The Realm of the Radio Galaxies
5. Main Pal: Soft X-ray Excess in a Super-Massive Binary Black-Hole System OJ~287
6. Shishir Sankhyayan: Exploring Superclusters and Giant Radio Galaxies (GRGs): Insights into Their Interplay
7. Ananda Hota: Relics of AGN Feedback with RAD@home Citizen Science
8. Sabyasachi Pal: Study of Different Sub-Classes of Irregular Morphology Radio Galaxies
9. Abhijeet Borkar: Are Black-Hole Accretion States Similar Across the Mass Scale?
10. Chiranjib Konar: Exploring the Cause of Episodic Jet Activity in AGNs
11. Anelise Audibert: Feedback from Low-Power Radio Jets on the Gas Reservoirs of Quasars
12. Pratik Dabhade: The Past, Present, and Future of Giant Radio Galaxies Research
13. Kshitij Thorat: The Many Ages of the Radio Galaxy PKS 2014-55
14. Shobha Kumari: uGMRT Multi-Wavelength Study of Radio Galaxies with Episodic Activities.
15. Machado Prasun Francis: New Structures in Radio Galaxies Through RAD@home Citizen Science
16. Netai Bhukta: Deciphering X-Z Radio Galaxies from Recent Sky Surveys and Their Possible Formation Scenarios
17. Ankit Kumar Dhaikar: Study Of Accretion States in Episodic Radio Galaxies
18. Deblina Lahiri: Flux-dependent X-ray Reverberation Lags in the AGN Mrk 110
19. Shouvik Manik: Assessing the Influence of the Environment on the Evolution of Giant Radio Galaxies
20. Sushanta K. Mondal: Radio and Environmental Properties of Tailed Radio Galaxies
21. Apoorva Prakash: Radio Bubbles and Lobes in Spiral Galaxies Through RAD@home, GMRT & LOFAR
22. Arnav Sharma: Propagation of Jets Through Relativistic Non-Thermal Plasma
23. Pranjal Sharma: An Insight into the Spectral States in Radio Loud AGNs Through the Models of Accretion
Part IV Solar and Stellar Physics
1. Suprit Singh: The Total Solar Eclipses & Revealing of the Solar Corona
2. Pramod Kumar: Velocity and Dissipation Characteristics of Solar-Flare Turbulence Estimation Using Monte Carlo Simulations
3. Kunwar Alkendra Pratap Singh: On Formation Of Small-Scale Anemone Jets And Their Dynamic Evolution In Solar Chromosphere
4. Santosh Joshi: Asteroseismology: Piercing the Stellar Interior from Space and Ground Telescopes
5. Bharti Arora: Multiwavelegth Exploration of Wind Interacting Massive Binaries
6. Vishal Jadoliya: X-ray Study of WR 48-6: a Possible Colliding Wind Binary
7. Jayashree Kundu: Development of Computational Code to Estimate the Mass and Luminosity of a Spectroscopic Binary System
Part V Planets, Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies, Interstellar Media and Galactic Processes
1. Ekta Sharma: Magnetized View of a Molecular Cloud in Taurus: Synergy of HI Gas and Dust Polarization
2. Sunil Malik: Diagnostic for 3D Magnetic Field and Its Turbulent Characteristics in ISM and Extended Objects
3. Md Rashid: Indication of Non-Thermal Radio Emission from Orion Nebula: Cosmic Ray Acceleration from Stellar Wind?
4. Sandeep Kumar Kataria: Role of Dark Matter Halo Angular Momentum Distribution on Bar Formation, Evolution and Dynamical Friction.
5. Nirupam Roy: Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble: Interstellar Medium in Galaxies, Near and Far
6. Suresh Chandra: Molecules in Cosmic Objects and Their Importance
7. Mridusmita Buragohain: Approaches to Explore the Possibility of Deuterium Containing PAHs as Carriers for Mid-Infrared Emission Bands
8. Shraddha Biswas: Probing Transit Timing Variations in WASP-19 System
9. Shivam Burman: Investigation of the Radial Profile of Galactic Magnetic Fields using Rotation Measure of Background Quasars
10. Harshita: Image Analysis of Dust Ring in the Orbit of Venus
11. Siddhant Manna: Search for Dark Matter Annihilation to gamma-rays from SPT-SZ selected Galaxy Clusters
12. Sruthi K: Resolved Molecular Kennicutt-Schmidt Relation in Barred AGN Galaxies. UVIT Insights
Part VI Gravity and Cosmology
1. Avinash A. Deshpande: On the Attempts to Detect the Global Spectral Signature of the Cosmic Dawn
2. Pankaj Jain: Large Scale Anisotropy in the Universe
3. Tamal Sarkar: Examining the Presence of Cold Dark Matter with Gravitational Time Delay
4. Shubhrangshu Ghosh: Newtonian Analogous Construct of General-Relativistic Spacetime Geometries: Implications on Realistic Astrophysical Scenarios
5. Sanil Unnikrishnan: The speed of sound of cosmological perturbations in a multi-field/fluid Universe
6. Ashok K. Singal: Our Peculiar Motion in the Universe vs. the Cosmological Principle
7. Poonam Mehta: Superheavy Dark Matter Origin of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Light of Amaterasu
8. Madhavan Varadarajan: Black Holes, Thermodynamics and a Quantum Mechanical Puzzle
9. Tirthankar Roy Choudhury: Studying the First Stars Using SKA and Other Upcoming Facilities
10. Shruti Thakur: Comparing GCG, VCG and f(R) Models Using Background Observations