ISRO, ARIES TIE UP

ISRO, ARIES TIE UP FOR SPACE 

ISRO said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital

For cooperation in space situational awareness and astrophysics

Future endeavours in space exploration, it is important to be self –reliant in R&D in space environment, astrophysics and solar sciences

ARIES : The institute was started on 20 April 1954 under the supervision of Dr.A.N.Singh as Uttar Pradesh State Observatory (UPSO) in the premises of the Govt. Sanskrit College, presently known as Sampurnanand Sanskrit University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) was its new name when it came under the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India as an autonomous body on 22 March 2004

Research activities at ARIES cover topics related to the sun, stars and galaxies

ARIES has made significant contributions particularly to the field of star clusters and Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)

Recently, for the first time a direct correlation between the intra-night optical variability and the degree of polarization of the radio jets in Quasars was established based on the observations from ARIES. For the first time periodic oscillations are detected in optical intraday variability data of blazers which is extremely useful to get the black hole mass of blazers and also provide a strong support to accretion disk based models of AGN

The Institute has in-house workshops to meet the requirements of electronic, mechanical, and optical maintenance of the instruments

ARIES has a modern computer center with internet facility and a well maintained library of research journals and an excellent collection of books on Astronomy & Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences.