期刊名称：JOURNAL OF ASTROPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
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ISSN： | 0250-6335
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版本： | SCI-CDE
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出版频率： | Quarterly
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出版社： | INDIAN ACADEMY SCIENCES, P B 8005, C V RAMAN AVENUEBANGALORE, INDIA, 560 080
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期刊网址： | http://www.ias.ac.in/jaa/
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影响因子： | 0.667(2008) |
| 主题范畴： | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS |
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy publishes papers on all aspects of astrophysics
and astronomy, including new instrumentation, laboratory astrophysics and cosmology.
Papers should contain results of original research not previously published nor
under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers presented at conferences which
are only abstracted in the Conference Proceedings are also acceptable. Submission of
a paper further implies that its publication has been approved by all authors and that,
if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form without the consent
of the copyright holders. All papers are refereed. There are no page charges.
The designation of an astronomical source shall consist of the following parts:
Origin 1 Sequence 1 (Specifier)
Origin and sequence are essential, specifier is optional; the parentheses are
required if a specifier is included. Note that the .1/ is used here to denote a blank
space.
The following examples illustrate the recommended form of astronomical designations:
NGC.1/205
PKS.1/1817 − 43
CO.1/J0326:0 C 3041:0
H20.1/G123:4 C 57:6.1/.VLSR D −185/
3CR.1/196
The origin is a word or acronym to specify the catalogue or collection of objects,
denoting catalogue names (e.g., NGC, BD), the names of authors (RCW), types of
objects (PSR, PN), types of sources (13CO, HCN), instruments or observatories used
(VLA, IRAS) etc.
In the case of constructing new origins too long acronyms should be avoided but
should consist of at least two character, letters or numerals only; special characters
should be avoided, as well as indices and exponents. Origins should be unique and
should be checked for duplication with existing catalogue designations, constellation
names, abbreviations of object types etc.
The sequence is normally a numerical field determining the object within a catalogue
or collection (e.g., HD1224801) or it may be based on coordinates.
If coordinates in any form are used to encode an object, then they should be preceded
by J for Julian 2000 equatorial coordinates, G for galactic coordinates, B for Besselian
1950 equatorial coordinates. The absence of the code will be interpreted, by default,
as a missing B.
Coordinates shall be specified as LLL:11BB.bb for galactic coordinates, and for
equatorial coordinates as HHMMSS.ss DDMMSS.s, without spaces; fewer digits
may be used as appropriate.
Coordinates shall be truncated (not rounded) thus defining a unique (small) field on
the sky in which the object is located.
Coordinates shall contain leading zeros, and the plus or minus sign: BB.bb or
DDMMSS.s
Coordinates used in designations shall be considered as names; therefore will remain
the same even if the positions change or become more accurately known (e.g., BD
−25765 stays, even though its declination is now −26).
Subcomponents or multiplicity of objects are best designated with letters or numerals,
which are added to sequence with a colon, e.g., NGC 1818:B12.
The specifier is optional and allows one to indicate association with larger radiating
bodies (e.g., M131;W13) or to indicate other object parameters and are enclosed in
parentheses.
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Examples of complete designations are:
Designation Position
Origin 1 Sequence 1 (Specifier) RA(2000) DEC(2000)
BD −35750 00 02 02.4 −02 45 59
H20 J0446:6 C 7253:7 04 46 37.3 C72 53 47
AC 211 (D 1E2127 C 119; M15) 21 30 15.54 C11 43 39.0
PN G001.2?0.3 17 49 36.9 −28 03 59
R 136:a3 (30 Dor) 05 38 42.4 −69 06 03
Improper designations are:
BD 414 use of ?? declination sign missing
N221 no space, unclear source: NGC or N in LMC
DLB J204 C 2 leading zero missing; poor position
P 43578 one letter origin is ambiguous
MG 0400 C 3645 missing prefix J for Julian 2000 equatorial coordinates
General rules and information on how to generate designations can be found in the
following references:
Fernandez, A., Lortet, M.-C., Spite, F. 1983, The First Dictionary of the Nomenclature
of Celestial objects, Astr. Astrophys. Suppl., 52, N4.
Lortet, M.-C., Spite, F. 1986, First Supplement to the First Dictionary of the Nomenclature
of Celestial Objects, Astr. Astrophys. Suppl., 64, 329.
Dickel, H. R., Lortet M.-C., de Boer, K. S. 1987, Designation and Nomenclature for
Diffuse Radiating Sources, Astr. Astrophys. Suppl., 68, 75.
Jaschek, C. 1988, Data in Astronomy, Cambridge Univ. Press.
Instructions to Authors
1. Submission of a manuscript
Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to the Editor, Journal of Astrophysics
and Astronomy, Indian Academy of Sciences. We encourage authors to send their
manuscripts in electronic form in a floppy diskette or by email to jaa@ias.ernet.in with
figures included as .ps attachments. The journal is quarterly and appears in the calendar
months March, June, September and December. Once a manuscript is accepted for
publication, authors will receive proofs.
Address for correspondence: All correspondence may be addressed to
Prof. Rajaram Nityananda,
Editor, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy,
Indian Academy of Sciences,
P. B. No. 8005,
Bangalore 560 080, India
Telephone: (080) 361 2546
Telefax : 91-80-361 6094
E-mail : jaa@ias.ernet.in
Web site : www.ias.ac.in/jaa
Proofs and reprints: Authors are requested to exercise utmost care in preparation
of the manuscripts so that there is little need to incorporate alterations at the proofreading
stage. Proofs should be returned within three days of receipt. For each article,
100 reprints are supplied free of charge to the first author. Additional copies are
charged for which the order form is sent along with the page proofs.
2. Preparation of a manuscript
Each manuscript (complete with tables, graphs and photographs) should be neatly
typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper only with sufficient margin on all
four sides. The pages of the typescript including the title page should be numbered
consecutively and placed in the following order: title page, abstract and key words, text
followed by acknowledgements, appendices, references, figure captions and tables.
Title page: The first page of the manuscript should contain (a) the title, concise but
informative, (b) the initials and the name(s) of the author(s), (c) full institutional affiliation
of all authors followed by the postal address(es).A new address or a permanent
address may be given as a footnote. (d) The address to which the proofs may be sent.
(e) A running title may also be provided. The author should also state the number of
pages, tables and figures on the first page. All matter may be left-aligned.
Abstract: The abstract precedes the main text and describes what is dealt within
the text. It should be informative about the purpose, methodology and results of the
investigations described. Appropriate key words should also be provided to help in
indexing. When possible it is advisable to choose the key words from the Thesaurus
published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 208, 1989. References in the abstract are
best avoided.
The text: The text is divided into sections and subsections with sectional headings.
The main divisions or the first-level divisions are always centred, in bold upper
and lower cases and numbered consecutively beginning with the arabic numeral
1 (one). The second-level divisions or subdivisions are also numbered consecutively,
starting within each first-level division (1.1, 1.2 etc.). these are also centred
but are always in italics. Third-level divisions or subsections are in italics but left
aligned.
Appendices: Certain parts of the material to be presented in a paper, e.g., mathematical
proofs, details of statistical methods or of observational data and analysis are
more conveniently placed at the end of the paper in the form of one or more appendices
marked by capital letters e.g., Appendix A, Appendix B. Appendices should always be
placed before the reference section.
References in text: The name and the year system also known as the Harvard
System is followed. Examples are: single author (Fernie 1974), two authors (David
& Reeves 1980), three authors (Batten, Fletcher & McCarthy 1989) more than three
authors (Zeilik et al. 1982), multiple references (Paczy榥ski 1976; Radhakrishnan &
Srinivasan 1982; Readhead et al. 1978). When the name of the author is part of the
sentence then only the year is placed in parentheses:
揝andage, Freeman & Stokes (1970) and Freeman (1970) have discussed the role
of : : : .?BR>If in any one year, more than one paper is published by the same author, or by the
same team of authors, or by more than three authors but the same first author, then the
references should be distinguished by the letters a, b, c. The order of these letters is
dictated by the (alphabetical) order in which the references appear in the 搑eference?BR>section, and not necessarily chronological within the year.
Examples
Same author: Iben (1967a), Iben (1967b), Iben (1967c)
Same team of authors: Kapahi & Schilizzi (1979a)
Kapahi & Schilizzi (1979b)
More than three authors but
with the same first author: Krishnaswamy et al. (1982a)
Krishnaswamy et al. (1982b)
Papers with more than three authors are always referred to in the text with the name
of the first author followed by an et al. Any unpublished correspondence is referred to
as 損ersonal communication? and should appear only in the text and should include
the initials of the authors.
References to unpublished work may be done variously depending on the current
state of the work.A completed work which is not in the process of publication may be
referred to as 搖npublished? a work that is almost complete, but not yet finalised for
publication is 搃n preparation? When a paper is submitted to a journal, it may still be
referred to as 損reprint?since it is in this form that the readers may be able to procure
it. When it is accepted for publication, one may list the name of the journal followed
by ?in press)?
Reference section: The references listed at the end of the text should be in alphabetical
order and arranged as follows in the case of journals.
Names of author(s) followed by initials, year of publication, abbreviated titles of
journals as given in Astronomer抯 Handbook published by the IAU, volume number
followed by the starting page number of the article.
In the case of a book, names of author(s), year of publication, the title, the edition,
name and place of the publisher and pagination should be given. If the book is edited,
name(s) of the editor(s) follow the title of the book.
If an et al. consists of less than ten authors then the list of references appearing at
the end of the text should include all authors.
Index: Apart from the Author Index, we are now publishing a classified Subject
Index in place of an Index of Papers. A consolidated five year index was published in
volume 6, no. 4, 1985.
3. Symbols, notations and abbreviations
Algebraic symbols: These symbols need to be differentiated from the text. Italic letters
are used for scalars (straight underlines) and bold letters (wavy underlines) are used
for vectors. Letters and symbols liable to confusion or any new character or ambiguous
symbols when they first appear may be marked in the text. Letters used in formulae
are automatically set in italics unless otherwise indicated, e.g., roman, boldface, script,
greek, or gothic. Symbols which can cause confusion e.g., I, l and 1, letter O and 0
should also be marginally indicated.
Regarding Equations and formulae the following usage is preferred:
1. 慹xp?for the exponential function.
2. fractional exponents like .a=b/1=2 instead of the root sign;
3. the solidus (/) when an equation or fraction appears in the text: exp.y=x/1=2.
The functions like log; exp; sin; cos; and the differential symbols d, D are always
in roman so that they can be distinguished from symbols amenable to algebraic operations.
Units and other abbreviations: Following abbreviations of units are preferred:
centimetre (cm), metre (m), kilometre (km), second (s), year (yr), magnitude (mag),
minutes (min), seconds of arc (arcsec), minutes of arc (arcmin), gramme (g), kilogramme
(kg), erg (erg),Watt (W), Volt (V), Gauss (G), Hertz (Hz), Jansky (Jy).
These unit symbols should appear in roman letters; should remain unaltered in the
plural; should not be followed by a full stop (unless they form the end of a sentence);
should be separated by a space from the numerical value that they qualify; should be
written in lower case letters, except when the name of the unit is derived from a proper
name in which case the first letter is written in upper case. Symbols of units are to be
used in conjunction with numbers. Otherwise the name of the unit should be spelt out:
1:0 cm2 but a few square centimetres.
Abbreviations may be convenient for naming instruments, projects or mathematical
models, a phrase or a reference. Even when they are fairly well-accepted, it is necessary
to define them when they appear for the first time in the text. Examples are,
Lausten &West (1980: hereinafter referred to as LW),
initial mass function (IMF)
star formation rate (SFR)
prime-focus universal extragalactic instrument (PFUEI).
No such definition is necessary for the nearly universally known and accepted abbreviations.
Examples are IUE for the International Ultraviolet Explorer, HST for the
Hubble Space Telescope and MIDAS for the M╱nich Image Data Analysis System.
Miscellaneous: Following the recommendations of the IAU, the dates of observations,
or of astronomical events, should be written in the order of year, month, day, so
that in principle it can be appended by the decimal fraction of a day.
e.g., a meeting was held in Delhi in January 1981 to discuss the results of the solar
eclipse of 1980 February 16.
4. Tables and illustrations
Tables and illustrations should appear on a separate page and should be numbered
consecutively using arabic numericals in the order in which it is cited in the text.
Marginal indicators by the authors giving the location of the first reference to each table
or figure will be very useful. Every table or figure should be accompanied by a selfcontained
caption. Line drawings should not exceed twice the final size. Authors are
requested to pay adequate attention to thickness of lines, sizes of points and adequate
spacing of shaded and dotted areas. The words on a drawing should be in upper and
lower case characters.
Photographs for preparation of half-tone plates should be glossy prints of high
contrast. These should be unmounted and trimmed precisely at right angles.
Colour artwork: JAA has facilities for reproducing colour figures free of
charge.
5. IAU specifications regarding astronomical radiation sources
Origin, sequence, (specifier): All authors of papers are requested to adhere to the
following IAU specifications regarding unambiguous nomenclature for all astronomical
sources of radiation. When existing designations are used in listings, they should
never be altered. All object listings should always contain next to the acronym a second
designation, or positional information.
Editorial Board
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Editor |
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Rajaram Nityananda National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune |
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Editorial Board |
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B. G. Anandarao, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad |
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Pranab Ghosh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
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W. M. Goss, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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S. S. Hasan, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore |
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R. W. Hunstead, University of Sydney, Australia |
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Ram Sagar, Uttar Pradesh State Observatory, Nainital |
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C. R. Subrahmanya, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore |
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Virginia Trimble, University of California and University of Maryland, USA |
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Editor of Publications of the Academy |
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N. Mukunda Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
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