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Manoj Puravankara
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Rochester
477 Bausch & Lomb Building
Rochester, NY 14627
phone: (585) 276 4105
email: manoj@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. 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, to be published in ApJL
  2. Evolution of Emission-Line Activity in Intermediate-Mass Young Stars
    P. Manoj, H. C. Bhatt, G. Maheswar and S. Muneer, 2006, ApJ, 653, 657 full paper (pdf)
  3. Star formation:Circumstellar Environment around Young Stellar Objects
    P. Manoj, 2005, Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 33, p.327 full paper (pdf)
  4. Kinematics of Vega-like stars: lifetimes and temporal evolution of circumstellar dust disks
    P. Manoj & H. C. Bhatt, A&A, 429, 525, 2005 full paper (pdf)
  5. Photometric distances to dark clouds: Cometary Globule CG 12
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., MNRAS, 355, 1272, 2004 full paper (pdf)
  6. Magnetic fields in cometary globules - III: CG 12
    Bhatt, H. C., Maheswar, G. & P. Manoj, MNRAS, 348, 83, 2004 full paper (pdf)
  7. Optical spectroscopic and 2MASS measurements of Stephenson H_alpha stars
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., A&A, 402, 963, 2003 full paper (pdf)
  8. Intermediate galactic latitude starforming region - CG 12
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 30, 651, 2002
  9. Circumstellar environment around youg stellar objects in nearby OB associations
    P. Manoj, Maheswar, G. & Bhatt, H.C., Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 30, 657, 2002
  10. Non-emission-line young stars of intermediate mass
    P. Manoj, Maheswar, G. & Bhatt, H.C., MNRAS, 334, 419, 2002 full paper (pdf)
  11. Circumstellar disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars: polarization, outflows and binary orbits
    G. Maheswar, P. Manoj & Bhatt, H.C., A&A, 387, 1003, 2002 full paper (pdf)
  12. Kinematics of Vega-like stars
    P. Manoj & H. C. Bhatt, Bull. Astron. Soc. India, 29, 313, 2001 full paper (pdf)
  13. Polarization measurements of Vega-like stars
    H. C. Bhatt & P. Manoj, A&A, 362, 978, 2000 full paper (pdf)

Other

  1. 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
  2. Coronographic Observations of Circumstellar Disks with Subaru
    Jennifer Karr, P. Manoj, Tamura, M., Kudo, T., Ohashi, N., AAS Meeting 209, 2007
  3. Evolution of emission line activity in intermediate mass young stars
    P. Manoj, Bhatt, H. C. & Maheswar, G., Bull. Astron. Soc. India}, 33, 369, 2005
  4. 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
  5. AB Aurigae
    Ashok, N. M., Chandrasekhar, T., Bhatt, H. C. & P. Manoj, IAU Circ., 7103, 2, 1999
  6. 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