35th Annual Report (2022-2023) - ENGLISH

171 Any outreach programmes, including public lectures/sky watch arranged by ICARD: (i) An event with a popular talk in the school Kanya Purva Maadhyamik Vidhyalay, Chaumuhan, Mathura held on 17 February 2023 at 12:30-2:30 PM. The topic of the talk was “The story of the Universe” delivered by Prof. Saibal Ray for the students of classes 6 - 8, the reactions of the students revealed that this type of seminars are of emergent need for the rural students to promote basic knowledge of Astronomical sciences. In the event, 100 students were provided notebooks and pens. The Principal of the school has expressed her gratitude with an earnest desire to continue this kind of programme in the future. (ii) An event of popular seminar on “Active galaxies, Black Holes and Binary Black Holes” by Dr. Pankaj Kushwaha, Assistant Professor, IISER, Mohali was held on 20 February 2023 at 11:00- 12:30 PM in the Centre for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Space Science, GLA University, Mathura. It was a grand success with the seminar hall full of the audiences includes B. Tech., BCA, B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with a number more than 100. Prof. A. K. Beesham, South Africa along with other faculty members of GLA University were present in the event. A lively interactive session occurred between the speaker and the students, which reveals that the audience have enjoyed the seminar, a lot. (iii) An event with a popular talk on the Astrophysical events has been conducted in Uccha Prathamik Vidhyalay - Dvitiya, Ajhai Khurd, Mathura under ICARD on 24 March 2023 during 01:00-3:00 PM. The speaker for the event was Prof. Saibal Ray, CCASS, GLA University. The audience were the students from class 5 to 8 along with the teachers of the school. In the event, 143 students were present and they were provided notebooks and pens to each. The audience were curious enough which was proved from their silly as well as inquisitive questions on the theme of the lecture. The Principal of the school Smt. Anamika Saxena expressed her gratitude and invited for future events of this kind. (iv) A popular seminar on the topic “Cosmological Models and Modified Gravity: Geometrical Interpretation” by Prof. Bivudutta Mishra, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, was conducted on 31 March 2023 at 11:00 AM. The seminar hall was full of audience belonging to B.Sc., B. Tech, M.Sc. (Phys.) and research scholars. Some interested faculty members from the English, Mathematics, and Computer engineering departments were also present in the seminars. An interactive session with question from the student (in particular, UG students) on different issues of the universe-accelerated expansion and other cosmological issues which include Big-Bang model were discussed with the speaker in length. In the end, Prof. Mishra was felicitated by theDirector, CCASS. AreasofResearch: ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ List of publications by using ICARD facilities: AGN feedback in galaxy clusters Optical/X-ray variability of AGN X-ray astronomy XRBpopulation in galaxies Multi-phase ISM in early-type galaxies. The ICARD activities are supported by 08 research scholars working in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics and 20 M Sc Final Year students with Astrophysics specialization. 1. S. P. Deshmukh, N. D. Vagshette and M. K. Patil ; stellar and dust properties in a Coordinator: Dr. Madhav K. Patil ICARD, School of Physical Sciences, S.R.T.M. University, Nanded: Activities from 01 April 2022 till 31 March 2023 sample of blue early type galaxies; Serb. Astron. J., 205 (2022), 23 - 32 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ2205023 D) 2. Kiran Wani and Haritma Gaur , Study of Intra-Day Flux Distributions of Blazars Using XMM-Newton Satellite, Universe 2022, 8, 578 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8110 578) 3. Kiran Wani, Haritma Gaur and M. K. Patil; X-ray studies of Blazar 1ES 1959+650 using Swift and XMM- Newton satellite , 2023, ApJ, in press. Conference presentations during year 2021-2022: 1. K. Wani, H. Gaur & M. K. Patil ; Flaring activity of Blazar 4C +29.45 and BL Lacertae: Multiband Optical Variability, in the National conference on REcent Trends in the study of Compact Objects (RETCO-V): Theory and Observation, 10 February 2023 , organized by IIT Roorkee and ARIES, Nainital (in online mode) 2. K. Wani, H. Gaur & M. K. Patil ; X-ray Studies of High Synchrotron Peaked Blazar 1ES 1959+650, 4th National Conference on High Energy Emission from ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI held at Farook College, Calicut, Kerala, India