Journal publications
2025
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Rishitosh K. Sinha, Neha Panwar, Neeraj Srivastava, Dwijesh Ray, N.P.S. Mithun, Kuljeet K. Marhas, S. Vijayan, Megha Bhatt, Arpit R. Patel, M. Shanmugam, Santosh V. Vadawale, Anil Bhardwaj, "Primitive lunar mantle materials at the Chandrayaan-3 landing site", Communications Earth & Environment,6:321, 2025.
2024
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Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun, M. Shanmugam, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Rishitosh K. Sinha, Megha Bhatt, S. Vijayan, Neeraj Srivastava, Anil D. Shukla, S. V. S. Murty, Anil Bhardwaj, Y. B. Acharya, Arpit R. Patel, Hiteshkumar L. Adalaja, C. S. Vaishnava, B. S. Bharath Saiguhan, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Yash Srivastava, Varsha M. Nair, Tinkal Ladiya, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj K. Tiwari, Shyama Narendranath, Netra S. Pillai, Arup Kumar Hait, Aaditya Patinge, Abhishek Kumar, Neeraj Satya, Vivek R. Subramanian, Sonal G. Navle, R. G. Venkatesh, Lalitha Abraham, K. Suresh and Amitabh,"Chandrayaan-3 APXS elemental abundance
measurements at lunar high latitude ", Nature, 633:327-331,2024.
2020
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M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel, N. P. S. Mithun, Hitesh Kumar Adalaja, Tinkal Ladiya, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj K. Tiwari, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, A. K. Hait, A. Patinge, Abhishek Kumar, Saleem Basha, Vivek R. Subramanian, R. G. Venkatesh, D. B. Prashant, Sonal Navle, Y. B. Acharya, S. V. S. Murty, and Anil Bhardwaj,
"Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer onboard
Chandrayaan-2 Rover ", Current Science, 118, 53 (2020).
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N.P.S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Arpit R. Patel, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, Garima Arora, Yash Srivastava, Hitesh Kumar Adalja, Tinkal Ladiya, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Swaroop B. Banerjee, Vishnubhai R. Patel, Anil Bhardwaj,
"Ground calibration of Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 Pragyaan rover: An empirical approach", Planetary and Space Science, 187,104923 (2020).
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2014
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M. Shanmugam, S.V.S. Murty, Y.B. Acharya, S.K. Goyal, Arpit R. Patel, Bhumi Shah, A.K. Hait, Aditya Patinge, D. Subrahmanyam,
"Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 rover", Advances in Space Research,54:10, p. 1974-1984 (2014).
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Conference Proceedings
2013
2011
Conference Presentations
2023
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A. Patel et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on Board
Chandrayaan-3 Rover", Oral presentation: AOGS 2023.
2021
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A. Patel et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-2 rover",
36th International Geological Congress 2021
2019
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M. Shanmugam et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer On-board
Chandrayaan-2 Rover", AOGS-2019.
2017
- M. Shanmugam et al., "Development of XSM and APXS payloads for
Chandrayaan-2 mission", Vision and Explorations for Planetary Sciences in
Decades 2020-2060, PRL Ahmedabad, 8-10 November 2017.
2016
- M. Shanmugam et al., "APXS with Am-241 sources onboard Chandrayaan-2 Rover”, NSSS, Feb., 2016.
2014
- S. K. Goyal et al., "Comparison of XRF measurements with GEANT-4
simulation for Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-2
Rover", NSSS – 2014.
2012
- M. Shanmugam et al., "Design and performance evaluation of Alpha
Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) onboard Chandrayaan-2 Rover", NSSS,
February, 2012.
- M. Shanmugam et al., "APXS on board Chandrayaan-2 Rover", 39th COSPAR
Scientific Assembly, India, Abstract B0.1-0042-12, 2012.
2011
- M. Shanmugam et al., "APXS on board Chandrayaan-2 Rover", NSSS,
February, 2011.
2010
- M. Shanmugam et al., "Silicon Drift Detector based Alpha Particle
induced X-ray Spectrometer for Chemical Characterisation of Planetary
Surfaces", NSSS-2010.
Invited Talks
2024
- S. Vadawale, "X-ray Experiments onboard Chandrayaan missions",
Space Instrumentation And Payload Development Workshop, IIT Kanpur, 29
March 2024.
- S. Vadawale, "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer: On-board
Chandrayaan-3 Pragyaan Rover", International Conference on Planets,
Exoplanets and Habitability (ICPEH) 2024, PRL Ahmedabad, 5 February
2024.
2023
- M. Shanmugam, "APXS on-board Chandrayaan-3 Rover: The first
in-situ elemental composition measurement on lunar south pole",
Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites: Messengers from Space (MetMeSS),
1-3 November, 2023.
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S. Vadawale, “Roaming on the Moon”, TIFR ASSET Colloquium, TIFR Mumbai,
19th October 2023.
- M. Shanmugam, "Planetary Exploration: Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM)
and Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on Ch-2/Ch-3", ISRO
Induction Training Program (IITP), 1st August, 2023.
- N. P. S. Mithun on behalf of APXS team, "In-Situ Elemental Abundance Measurements on the Moon with
Chandrayaan-3 Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS)", Chandrayaan-3 Science Data Analysis Workshop, IDSN/ISTRAC Bylalu, 28-29 March 2023
2019
- S. Vadawale, "X-ray Spectroscopy of the Moon", Colloquium, Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 27 March 2019
2017
- M. Shanmugam, "Development of XSM and APXS payloads for Chandrayaan-2
mission", "Vision & Explorations for Planetary Sciences in Decades
2020-2060", PRL, 8-10 November, 2017.
2016
- M. Shanmugam, "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) on-board
Chandrayaan-2 Rover", PLANEX workshop "Exploration of inner solar
system objects", 7-10 March, 2016.