MSV-2035 Astronomy Document - Inside Design - FINAL - FINAL

Astronomy & Astrophysics 128 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The exercise of developing this Mega Science Vision-2035 (MSV-2035) document has been undertaken under the initiative of the Office of the Principal ScientificAdviser (PSA) to the Govt. of India. We express our appreciation and thanks to Prof. K. VijayRaghavan, former PSA, for initiating the MSV-2035 Exercise, and to Prof. A.K. Sood, PSA, for the continued support. Thanks are also due to Dr. Arabinda Mitra, former Scientific Secretary, and Dr. Parvinder Maini, Scientific Secretary in the PSA’s Office. We thank the panel of Indian and international experts who gave invaluable inputs on this document. Several astronomers in various institutions/universities and facilities, and government officials involved in promoting mega science projects in the country, have contributed to the development of this document. We thank Ms. Nirupama Bawdekar for her help in producing the print-ready version. The Working Group of MSV-2035 (A&A) acknowledges the following for their inputs: Poonam Chandra (NCRA) V. Bhalerao (IIT-Bombay) Kuntal Misra (ARIES) D.K. Sahu (IIA) Bhaswati Mookerjea (TIFR) Sarita Vig (IIST) L.K. Dewangan (PRL) Manash Ranjan Samal (PRL) Saurabh Sharma (ARIES) Neelam Panwar (ARIES) Jessy Jose (IISER-Tirupati) Joe Philip Ninan (TIFR) Maheswar Gopinathan (IIA) Soumen Mondal (SNBNCBS) Blesson Mathew (Christ University) Tapas Baug (SNBNCBS) D. Jagadheep (IIST) B. Eswar Reddy (IIA) T. Sivarani (IIA) Abhirup Datta (IIT-Indore) L. Majumdar (NISER) Nirupam Roy (IISc) B. Ramesh (RRI) P. Sreekumar (ISRO/Manipal) Sowgat Muzahid (IUCAA) Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA) Tarun Souradeep (RRI) S. Rastogi (DDU, Gorakhpur) R. Sridharan (IIA) Dipankar Banerjee (ARIES) K.Sankarasubramanian (ISRO) B. Ravindra (IIA) Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA) A. Raja Bayanna (USO, PRL) Shibu Mathew (USO, PRL) S.P. Rajaguru (IIA) Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR) K.P. Singh (IISER-Mohali) Dipankar Bhattacharya (IUCAA / Ashoka University) Aru Beri (IISER-Mohali) Varsha Chitnis (TIFR) Amit Shukla (IIT-Indore) Pratik Majumdar (SINP) Yogesh Joshi (ARIES) Basudeb Dasgupta (TIFR) Rishi Khatri (TIFR) Girish Kulkarni (TIFR) S. Majumdar (TIFR) Avinash Deshpande (RRI /IIT-Kanpur) Sendhil Raja S (RRCAT) Subhadeep De (IUCAA) MEGA SCIENCE VISION-2035