National Conference
on
REcent Trends in the study of Compact
Objects:Theory and Observation
(RETCO – III)
June 05 - 07, 2017
Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology
(IIST)
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, INDIA
Notes:  Accommodation at ATF guest house (VSSC); Conference venue at IIST
 Lecture Hall: Seminar Hall, D4 Building, IIST
 Time duration of each lecture includes discussions
 Morning tea will be served during 7.00­7.30 AM at ATF dining hall
 Pickup from ATF to IIST at 7.45 AM
 Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner will be served at IIST
Day 1
June 05, 2017 (Monday)
9.30 - 10.00
10.00 - 10.15
Registration
Inauguration and Welcome address by Director IIST
Special Session (Gravity Wave: A new window); Chair: A R Rao
10.15 - 10.50
10.50 - 11.15
11.15 - 13.15
13.15 - 14.15
14.15 - 16.00
Bala Iyer (35): Deciphering the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Tea Break (25 min)
Session – 1 (Compact Objects – Interior and Exterior) (120 min); Chair: A R Rao
Sandip K Chakrabarti (25): Foundation of Accretion Flows around Compact Objects
Debadas Bandyopadhyay (25): Neutron Stars: Laboratory for Fundamental Physics
Indranil Chattopadhyay (20): Relativistic accretion disk around black hole
Prasanta Bera (15): Spectral and Timings properties of Magnetic CVs
Tridib Roy (15): Pulsar Radio Emission and Polarization
Indu Kalpa Dihinga (10): Two Temperature Accretion Flow around Black Holes
Arnab Deb (10): Toroidal Flux Tubes as Collimators and Accelerators in an Advective Flow
Lunch Break
Session - 2 (XRB-1) (105 min); Chair: Dipankar Bhattacharya
Sudip Bhattacharyya (20): Transient Accretion and the Spin Rates of Millisecond Pulsars
Santabrata Das (20): Magnetized Dissipative Accretion Flow around Black Holes
Avishek Kumar Basu (15): Simultaneous Radio and X-ray Observation of Crab Pulsar
Jincy Devasia (15): Suzaku observations of XTE J1855-026
MD Ramiz Aktar (10): Mass Loss from Viscous Accretion Disk around Rotating Black Holes
Kuldeep Singh (10): Study of magnetized Accretion Flow with Relativistic Equation of State
Ayan Bhattacharjee (10): Properties of Neutron Star Spectra from TCAF solution
16.00 - 16.30
Tea Break + Conference Photograph (30 min)
16.30 - 18.30
Session – 3 (XRB-2) (120 min); Chair: Gulab C Dewangn
J S Yadav (25): LAXPC Instrument onboard AstroSat and some Recent Results
Dipak Debnath (15): Understanding Accretion Flow Properties of few Black Hole Candidates after the
Implementation of TCAF in XSPEC
Chetna Jain (15): Orbital Evolution of Low Mass X-ray Binaries
Indrani Banerjee (15): Extracting the Accretion Flow Parameters and Estimating the Mass of Cygnus X1 using TCAF Solution
Rahul Sharma (10): Study of the Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts of MXB 1658-298 with Nustar
Arghajit Jana (10): Accretion-Ejection Process of Swift J1753.5-0127 during its 2005 Outburst
Shilpa Sarkar (10): Two temperature fluid solutions around compact objects
Samir (10): Radiation spectrum of accretion disc around Kerr black hole
19.00 - 20.30
Welcome Dinner @ IIST
Day 2
9.45 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.45
11.45 - 13.15
June 06, 2017 (Tuesday)
Session - 1 (GRB and Transients) (90 min); Chair: K P Singh
Dipankar Bhattacharya (25): Polarization of Gamma Ray Bursts: Theory and Observations
A R Rao (20): High Energy Transients: the Millisecond Domain
Patrick Das Gupta (15): Fast Radio Bursts from Magnetar Collapse
Manjari Bagchi (15): Understanding the Mystery of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)
Resmi L. (15): Redshift distribution of short GRBs
Tea Break (30 min)
Session - 2 (SN) (90 min); Chair: Stalin C. S.
Poonam Chandra (20): Explosions in Dense Environments
Rupak Roy (15): Transients near the Centers of the Galaxies
Subhash Bose (15): Diversity and Interaction Scenario in Fast Declining type II Supernovae
Sabyasachi Pal (15): Galactic and Extra-galactic Transient Radio Sources
Mridweeka Singh (10): A Peculiar Sub-class Of Type Ia Supernova a.k.a Type Iax
Nayana A J (10): Long term Radio Monitoring of a Type IIP Supernova SN 2004DJ
13.15 - 14.15
Lunch Break
14.15 - 16.00
Session - 3 (AGN & SMBH) (105 min); Chair: Sandip K Chakrabarti
K P Singh (25): Broad-band X-ray studies of compact objects with AstroSat
Gulab Chand Dewangan (20): X-ray/UV Connection in AGN and the Role of AstroSat
Kanhaiya Lal Pandey (15): Direct Collapse Scenario of the Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
(SMBH)
Main Pal (15): The Nature of Accretion Disk in a Bare Galaxy Faraill 9
Priyanka Rani (10): Measurements of Coronal Properties of the Seyferts with NuSTAR
Dipanweeta Bhattacharyya (10): Black hole Evolution and the M- Relation
Rubinur Khatun (10): Radio Observations of Candidate Dual Active Galactic Nuclei in Double Peaked
Emission Line Galaxies
16.00 - 16.30
Tea Break (30 min)
16.30 - 18.30
Session - 4 (XRB-3) (120 min); Chair: Arun Mangalam
Ranjeev Misra (20): AstroSat Observations of X-ray Binaries
Anuj Nandi (20): Observational aspects of Outbursting Black Hole Sources
M C Ramadevi (15): Study of X-ray Transients with Scanning Sky Monitor (SSM) onboard AstroSat
Gayathri Raman (10): Re-visiting the Ultra-compact X-ray Pulsar 4U 1626-67 using SALT
Sreehari H (10): Constraining the Mass of GX 339-4 using Multiple Outburst Data with SpectroTemporal Techniques
Aneesha U (10): Study of Evolution of Accretion Dynamics of GX 339-4
Varun (10): Anomalous Pulse Profile Variability In IGR J16320-4751
Debjit Chatterjee (10): The 2000 and 2005 outburst of XTE J1118+480: Analysis with TCAF solution
Sanhita Kabiraj (10): A Study of the Pulse Shape of Persistent Accreting Pulsars at different Accretion
Torque
19.00 - 20.30
Dinner @ IIST
Day 3
09.45 - 11.05
June 07, 2017 (Wednesday)
Session - 1 (Blazers) (85 min); Chair: Sudip Bhattacharyya
Stalin C S (20): Blazars in the Era of Fermi
Kiran Singh Baliyan (20): Compact Objects: What does Variability in Blazars tells us?
B. Sunder Sahayanathan (20): VHE Blazars: Further Clues on Blazar Energetics
Bhoomika (10): Gamma-ray Spectral Properties of Bright Fermi Detected Blazars
Ashwani Pandey (10): X-ray Intraday Variability of Five TEV Blazars with NuSTAR
11.05 - 11.30
Tea Break (25 min)
11.30 - 13.20
Session - 2 (Jets & Instability) (110 min); Chair: Indranil Chattopadhyay
Arun Mangalam (20): Polarization Models for Jets
Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (20): Linear Instability in Accretion Disk without Magnetic Fields
Kinsuk Giri (15): Hydrodynamic Simulation of Vertical Oscillations in Outflows in a Thick Accretion
Flow around Black
Nagendra Kumar (15): Steep Power Law State and Bulk Comptonization Process for Outflows
Geometry in BH XRBs.
Mukesh Kumar Vyas (10): General Relativistic Studies of radiation driven Astrophysical Jets
Arka Chatterjee (10): Monte Carlo Simulation of X-Ray Imaging, Spectral and Temporal Properties of
Photons Emerging out of a Two Component Advective Flow
Mayur Bhaskar Shende (10): Formation of Episodic Jets from Black Hole Accretion Disks
Abhishek Roy (10): Why does an Outburst Occur? - Numerical Simulations of Time Varying Viscosity
inside a Two Component Accretion Disc
13.20-13.30
Conclusion
13.30 - 14.30
Lunch Break