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students to encourage them to take up research in astronomy & astrophysics and atmospheric sciences as a career. Under this programme, students in final year of MSc/BE/BTech can work on short-term projects during the summer for a period of about two months with any of the faculties at ARIES. Under the Visiting Research Scholars Programme, research scholars working for their PhD in other institutes or universities can visit ARIES to work in collaboration with any of the institute's faculty.
PUBLIC OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
ARIES regularly conducts public outreach activities for school and college students and general public. For this purpose, a dedicated science centre that has a poster-gallery, exhibits on basic sciences
and astronomy and a dedicated telescope for sky- watching are also available. ARIES has a small planetarium to host regular day-time shows on scientific documentaries for general public and students. Being located near a popular tourist destination – Nainital – the institute attracts thousands of general visitors every year. A large number of school and college students also benefit from seminars, lectures, sky-watching, planetarium shows, and interactive discussions with scientists. Regular communications through print, electronic
and social media about astronomical events and participation in science exhibitions are other means to connect with the society are also adopted by the institute. Popular lectures and training sessions are regularly conducted through online media.
ROAD AHEAD
In the near future, ARIES intends to participate in the home-grown mega-project, namely, National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) project and is already participating in another mega-science project called Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Plans are afoot to enhance manifold the
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RESEARCH AREAS
Sun & Solar System
Observations and modeling of solar activity, waves, transient events in the
solar atmosphere, comets, asteroids and planets.
Stellar Astronomy
Young and evolved stars, novae, supernovae, stellar variability and asteroseismology, binary stars, chemically peculiar stars, circumstellar matter and chromospherically active stars.
Star Clusters and Formation
Initial mass function and star formation, stellar evolution, stellar dynamics and stellar variability.
Interstellar Medium
Study of galactic H II regions, extinction and reddening properties,
galactic structure and molecular
clouds.
Extragalactic Astronomy
Kinematics of star clusters in
external galaxies, multi-wavelength
variability of active galactic nuclei, quasars absorption line systems, microlensing, studies
of energetic transients like supernovae and afterglows of gamma
ray burst, massive star formation in external galaxies, large size radio galaxies, dark matter and galaxy formation.
Spiral galaxy
computational facilities of ARIES and
to establish a data centre for hosting
and disseminating large volume of
astronomical and atmospheric science
data to the national and international
community. Work towards this
endeavour has begun. New
collaborations with other renowned
institutes and industries have also been
proposed to add multi-disciplinary
aspects to research activities. ARIES
plans to establish a new and well-
equipped science centre at Devasthal
campus to increase awareness about science, in general, into remote parts of hills and in the Kumaon region. Apart from heading towards an e-office (administration), ARIES has also initiated activities to have another level of infrastructure considering aspects, like greener and naturally sustainable campus extending to nearby places, like Haldwani. •
NGC613 with supernova 2016 gkg observed using 4Kx4KCCD