Journal publications

Dwijesh Ray, Rishitosh K. Sinha, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Anil Bhardwaj, "Chandrayaan-3 APXS measurements reveal Lunar highland compositional diversity and meteorite connections", NPJ Space Exploration,2:25, 2026.

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.

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.

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). [ADS]
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). [ADS]

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). [ADS]

Conference Proceedings

S. K. Goyal, M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, D. Banerjee, Y. B. Acharya, S. V. S. Murty, “ Laboratory measurement using Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer of Chandrayaan-2 Rover: Comparison with GEANT-4 simulation results”, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, IEEE proc. NSS/MIC/RTSD-1695, 2013.

M. Shanmugam, Y. B. Acharya, S. K. Goyal and S. V. S. Murty, "Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) On-Board Chandrayaan-2 Rover ", 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference,LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.1232 (2011). [ADS]

A. Patel et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on Board Chandrayaan-3 Rover", Oral presentation: AOGS 2023.

A. Patel et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-2 rover", 36th International Geological Congress 2021

M. Shanmugam et al., "Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer On-board Chandrayaan-2 Rover", AOGS-2019.

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.

M. Shanmugam et al., "APXS with Am-241 sources onboard Chandrayaan-2 Rover”, NSSS, Feb., 2016.

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.

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.

M. Shanmugam et al., "Silicon Drift Detector based Alpha Particle induced X-ray Spectrometer for Chemical Characterisation of Planetary Surfaces", NSSS-2010.

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.

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.
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

S. Vadawale, "X-ray Spectroscopy of the Moon", Colloquium, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 27 March 2019

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.

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.