ManojPicture
Manoj Puravankara
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Rochester
477 Bausch & Lomb Building
Rochester, NY 14627
phone: (585) 276 4105
email: manoj at pas.rochester.edu


Education

Ph.D. (Physics - Astronomy) 2004 Indian Institute of Astrophyscis, Bangalore, India
/ University of Bangalore, Bangalore, India
MSc Ed. (Physics) 1996Regional College of Education, Mysore, India
/ University of Mysore, Mysore, India
MBSc Ed. (Physics, Maths, Chemistry) 1994Regional College of Education, Mysore, India
/ University of Mysore, Mysore, India

Research Positions

Aug 2007 - present Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Aug 2005 - Aug 2007 Postdoctoral FellowASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan
Jan 2005 - Jul 2005Postdoctoral Fellow Inter-University Center for Astronomy & Astrophyscis (IUCAA) Pune, India
Aug 1999 - Dec 2004 Senior Research FellowIndian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
Aug 1997 - Jul 1999 Junior Research FellowIndian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

Research Interests


Selected Awards

Best thesis award for the presentation of my Ph.D. thesis at the 23rd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India held in Nainital in Februay 2005.

Publications

Refereed

  1. The dust composition of transitional disks
    P. Manoj, J. Najita, B. Sargent, C. Espaillat, D. M. Watson, E. Furlan, K. H. Kim, W. J. Forrest, J. Hernandez and J. D. Green, 2009, ApJ, submitted
  2. Disk Evolution in the Three Nearby Star-forming Regions of Taurus, Chamaeleon, and Ophiuchus
    Furlan, E.; Watson, Dan M.; McClure, M. K.; P. Manoj ; Espaillat, C.; D'Alessio, P.; Calvet, N.; Kim, K. H.; Sargent, B. A.; Forrest, W. J.; Hartmann, L., 2009, ApJ, 703, 1964 (ADS)
  3. Solar System Analogs Around IRAS-Discovered Debris Disks
    Chen, Christine H.; Sheehan, Patrick; Watson, Dan M.; P. Manoj ; Najita, Joan R., 2009, ApJ, 701, 1367 (ADS)
  4. Mid-Infrared Spectra of Transitional Disks in the Chamaeleon I Cloud
    Kim, K. H.; Watson, Dan M.; P. Manoj ; Furlan, E.; Najita, J.; Forrest, W. J.; Sargent, B.; Espaillat, C.; Calvet, N.; Luhman, K. L.; McClure, M. K.; Green, J. D.; Harrold, Samuel T., 2009, ApJ, 700, 1017 (ADS)
  5. Dust Processing and Grain Growth in Protoplanetary Disks in the Taurus-Auriga Star-Forming Region
    Sargent, B. A.; Forrest, W. J.; Tayrien, C.; McClure, M. K.; Watson, Dan M.; Sloan, G. C.; Li, A.; P. Manoj ; Bohac, C. J.; Furlan, E.; Kim, K. H.; Green, J. D., 2009, ApJS, 182, 477 (ADS)
  6. Gum 48d: An Evolved H II Region with Ongoing Star Formation
    Karr, J. L., P. Manoj, Ohashi, N., 2009, ApJ, 697, 133 (ADS)
  7. Silica in Protoplanetary Disks
    Sargent, B. A.; Forrest, W. J.; Tayrien, C.; McClure, M. K.; Li, A.; Basu, A. R.; P. Manoj ; Watson, D. M.; Bohac, C. J.; Furlan, E.; Kim, K. H.; Green, J. D.; Sloan, G. C., 2009, ApJ, 690, 1193 (ADS)
  8. A Sub-AU Outwardly Truncated Accretion Disk around a Classical T Tauri Star
    McClure, M. K., Forrest, W. J., Sargent, B. A., Watson, Dan M., Furlan, E., P. Manoj, Luhman, K. L., Calvet, N., Espaillat, C., D'Alessio, P., Hartmann, L. W., Tayrien, C. and Harrold, S. T., 2008, ApJL, 683, 187 (ADS)
  9. An Evolved Disk Surrounding the Massive Main Sequence Star MWC 297 ?
    P. Manoj, P. T. P. Ho, N. Ohashi, Q. Zhang, T. Hasegawa, H -R Chen, H. C. Bhatt and N. M. Ashok, 2007, ApJL, 667, 187 (ADS)
  10. Evolution of Emission-Line Activity in Intermediate-Mass Young Stars
    P. Manoj, H. C. Bhatt, G. Maheswar and S. Muneer, 2006, ApJ, 653, 657 (ADS)
  11. Star formation:Circumstellar Environment around Young Stellar Objects
    P. Manoj, 2005, Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 33, p.327 full paper (pdf)
  12. Kinematics of Vega-like stars: lifetimes and temporal evolution of circumstellar dust disks
    P. Manoj & H. C. Bhatt, A&A, 429, 525, 2005 (ADS)
  13. Photometric distances to dark clouds: Cometary Globule CG 12
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., MNRAS, 355, 1272, 2004 (ADS)
  14. Magnetic fields in cometary globules - III: CG 12
    Bhatt, H. C., Maheswar, G. & P. Manoj, MNRAS, 348, 83, 2004 (ADS)
  15. Optical spectroscopic and 2MASS measurements of Stephenson H_alpha stars
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., A&A, 402, 963, 2003 (ADS)
  16. Intermediate galactic latitude starforming region - CG 12
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 30, 651, 2002
  17. Circumstellar environment around youg stellar objects in nearby OB associations
    P. Manoj, Maheswar, G. & Bhatt, H.C., Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 30, 657, 2002
  18. Non-emission-line young stars of intermediate mass
    P. Manoj, Maheswar, G. & Bhatt, H.C., MNRAS, 334, 419, 2002 (ADS)
  19. Circumstellar disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars: polarization, outflows and binary orbits
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., A&A, 387, 1003, 2002 (ADS)
  20. Kinematics of Vega-like stars
    P. Manoj & H. C. Bhatt, Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 29, 313, 2001 full paper (pdf)
  21. Polarization measurements of Vega-like stars
    H. C. Bhatt & P. Manoj, A&A, 362, 978, 2000 (ADS)

Other

  1. A Comparative Study of Crystalline Silicates and Dust Processing in the Protoplanetary Disks of Taurus, Chamaeleon and Ophiuchus Young Clusters
    P. Manoj ; Sargent, B. A.; Furlan, E.; McClure, M. K.; Kim, K. H.; Luhman, K. L.; Watson, D. M.; Forrest, W. J., 2008, 212 AAS Meeting, (ADS)
  2. Sub-millimeter Interferometric Study of Circumstellar Disks Surrounding Optically Visible, Young High Mass Stars
    P. Manoj, Ho, P. T., Ohashi, N. & Q. Zhang, AAS Meeting 209, 2007
  3. Coronographic Observations of Circumstellar Disks with Subaru
    Jennifer Karr, P. Manoj, Tamura, M., Kudo, T., Ohashi, N., AAS Meeting 209, 2007
  4. Evolution of emission line activity in intermediate mass young stars
    P. Manoj, Bhatt, H. C. & Maheswar, G., Bull. Astron. Soc. India}, 33, 369, 2005
  5. Temporal evolution of main sequence dust disks
    P. Manoj & Bhatt, H. C. in Open Issues in Local Star Formation and Early stellar Evolution, Astrophysics & Space Science Library, 2003
  6. AB Aurigae
    Ashok, N. M., Chandrasekhar, T., Bhatt, H. C. & P. Manoj, IAU Circ., 7103, 2, 1999
  7. Astronomical Seeing at Mt. Saraswati, Hanle
    P. Manoj, Ravindra, B. & T. P. Prabhu, report of the project undertaken as part of graduate school at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, December 1998