ION PROBE LABORATORY
PHYSICAL RESEArCH LABORATORY
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PUBLICATIONS
Papers Published in Journals

1.    Marhas K.K. and Goswami J.N. (2000) Boron Isotopic composition in the early solar system solids. Current Science 78, 78-91.

2.    Goswami J.N., Marhas K.K. and Sahijpal S. (2001) Did solar energetic particle produce some of the short-lived nuclides in the early solar system?  Astrophysical Journal, 549, 1151-1159.

3.    Marhas K. K., Goswami J. N. and Davis A. M. (2002) Short-lived nuclides in hibonite grains from Murchison: evidence for solar system evolution. Science, 298, 2182-2185.

4.    Sahijpal S., Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (2003) Determination of rare earth and refractory trace element abundances in early solar system objects by ion microprobe. Proc. Indian Academy of sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences), 112, 485-498.

5.    Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (2004) Low energy particle production of short-lived nuclides in the early solar system.  New Astronomy Reviews, 48, 139-144.

6.    Goswami J. N., Marhas K. K., Chaussidon M., Gounelle M. and Meyer B. S. (2005) Origin of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system. Review paper accepted in Chondrules and Protoplanetary Disk.

7.    Hoppe P., Stadermann F. J., Stephan T., Floss C., Leitner J., Marhas K. and H�rz F. (2006) SIMS studies of Allende projectile shots into Stardust-type aluminum foils. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41, 197-209.

8.    Heck Ph. R., Marhas K. K., Gallino R., Hoppe P., Baur H., and Wieler R. (2006) Helium and Neon in Single Presolar Grains from the Meteorites Murchison and Murray. Mem. S.A.It. 75, 282-284.

9.    Brownlee D. et al. (2006) Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope. Science 314, 1711-1716.

10.    Horz F. et al. (2006) Impact Features on Stardust: Implications for Comet 81P/Wild 2 Dust. Science 314, 1716- 1719.

11.    McKeegan K. D. et al. (2006) Isotopic Compositions of Cometary Matter Returned by Stardust. Science 314, 1724-1728

12.    Flynn G. J. et al. (2006) Elemental Compositions of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Samples Collected by Stardust. Science 314, 1731-1735.

13.    Heck Ph. R., Marhas K. K, Hoppe P., Gallino R., Baur H., and Wieler R. (2007) Presolar He and Ne isotopes in single circumstellar SiC grains. Astrophysical journal 656, 1208-1222.

14.    Marhas K. K., Hoppe P., and Ott U. (2007) NanoSIMS studies of Ba isotopic compositions in presolar silicon carbide grains from AGB stars and Supernovae. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, 1077-1101.

15.    Sokol A. K., Bischoff A., Marhas K. K., Mezger K., Zinner E. (2007) Simultaneous accretion of differentiated or metamorphosed asteroidal clasts and chondrules. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, 1291-1308.

16.    Westphal A. J. et al. (2008) Discovery of non-random spatial distribution of impacts in the Stardust cometary collector. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 415- 429.

17.    Frank J. Stadermann, Peter Hoppe, Christine Floss, Philipp R. Heck, Friedrich H�rz, Joachim Huth, Anton T. Kearsley, Jan Leitner, Kuljeet K. Marhas, Kevin D. McKeegan, and Thomas Stephan (2008) Stardust in STARDUST - the C, N, and O isotopic compositions of Wild 2 cometary matter in Al foil impacts. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 299-313.

18.    Kearsley A. T., Borg J., Graham G. A., Burchell M. J., Cole M. J., Leroux H., Bridges J. C., H�rz F., Wozniakiewicz P. J., Bland P. A., Bradley J. P., Dai Z. R., Teslich N., See T., Hoppe P., Heck P. R., Huth J., Stadermann F. J., Floss C., Marhas K., Stephan T., and Leitner J. (2008) Dust from comet Wild 2: Interpreting particle size, shape, structure and composition from impact features on the Stardust aluminum foils.
Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 41-73.

19.    Jadhav M., Amari S., Marhas K. K., Zinner E., Maruoka T., Gallino R. (2008) New stellar sources for high-density, presolar graphite grains Astrophysical Journal 682, 1479.

20.    Marhas K. K., Amari S., Gyngard F. Zinner E. and Gallino R. (2008) Iron and nickel isotopic ratios in presolar SiC grains Astrophysical Journal 689, 622- 645.

21.    Zinner E., Amari S., Gyngard F. and Marhas K. K. (2008) Iron and nickel isotopic compositions of presolar SiC grains from supernovae. Proceeding 10th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos.

22.     Hutcheon I. D, Marhas K. K., Krot A. N., Goswami J.N. and Jones R. H. (2009) 26Al in plagioclase- rich chondrules in carbonaceous chondrites: evidence for an extended duration of chondrule formation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 5051-5079.

23.    Liu M. -C., McKeegan K. D., Goswami J. N., Marhas K. K., Sahijpal S., Ireland T. R. and Davis A. M. (2009) Isotopic records in CM hibonites:  Implication for timescales of reservoir mixing in the solar nebula. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 5080-5099.

24.    M. C. Price, A. T. Kearsley, M. J. Burchell, F. H�rz, J. Borg, J. C. Bridges, M. J. Cole, C. Floss, G. Graham, S. F. Green, P. Hoppe, H. Leroux, K. K. Marhas, N. Park, R. Stroud, F. J. Stadermann and P. J. Wozniakiewicz (2010) Comet 81P/WILD 2: The size distribution of finer (sub 10 micrometer) dust collected by the stardust spacecraft Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45, 1409-1428.

25.    Peter Hoppe, Jan Leitner, Elmar Gr�ner, Kuljeet K. Marhas, Bradley S. Meyer, and Sachiko Amari (2010) NanoSIMS studies of small presolar SiC grains: new insights into supernova nucleosynthesis, chemistry, and dust formation. Astrophysical Journal 719, 1370-1384.

26.    Jadhav M., Amari S., Zinner E., Maruoka T., Marhas K. K. and Gallino R. (2011) Multi-element isotopic analyses of presolar graphite grains from Orgueil. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta (submitted).

27.    Marhas K.K. and Y. Kadlag (2012) Quasi simultaneous arrival effect in nanoSIMS: Topography, matrix and instrument transmission effects. (to be submitted to International journal of mass spectrometer).

28.    Marhas K. K. and Randhawa J. (2012) Late Irradiation model for production of short-lived nuclides. (to be submitted to Meteoritics & Planetary Science).

29.    Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. (2012) Li-Be-B isotope systematic in CV3 meteorites.(to be submitted to Meteoritics & Planetary Science).


ABSTRACTS

1.      Goswami J. N., Marhas K. K. and Sahijpal S. (1996) Short-lived nuclides in the early solar system: The possible role of an active early sun. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 31, A52.

2.      Goswami J. N., Marhas K. K. and Sahijpal S. (1997) Production of short-lived nuclides by solar energetic particles in the early solar system. LPSC XXVIII, 439-440.

3.      Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (1997) Boron isotope composition in anorthites from an Efremovka Calcium-Aluminium rich inclusion. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 32, A84.

4.      Sahijpal S., Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (1997) 26Al and 41Ca in the early solar system: constraint on possible sources. International conference on isotopes in the solar system, 32.

5.      Marhas K. K., Goswami J. N., Davis A. M. and Russell S. S. (1999) Radiogenic and stable isotopic anomalies in CM and CO hibonites. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 34, A77.

6.      Marhas K. K., Davis A. M. and Goswami J. N. (1999) Mg and K isotopic compositions and refractory trace element abundances in early solar system solids.  8th ISMAS symposia, 567-570.

7.      Marhas K. K., Sinha N., Davis A. M. and Goswami J. N (2000) Isotopic records in hibonites from CM meteorites. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 35, A102.

8.      Marhas K. K., Hutcheon I. D., Krot A. N. and Goswami J. N. (2000) Aluminum-26 in carbonaceous chondrite chondrules. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 35, A102.

9.      Srinivasan G., Goswami J. N., Yamaguchi A. and Marhas K. K. (2000) Search for Tungsten-182 excess in zircons from the eucrite elephant moraine 90020. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 35, A151.

10.  Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (2000) Ion probe studies of trace element abundances in early solar system objects. 9th ISMAS workshop, 135-137.

11.  Goswami J. N., McKeegan K. D., Marhas K. K., Sinha N. and Davis A. M. (2001) Isotopic records in murray and murchison hibonites: implications for the oxygen isotopic reservoir in the early solar system. LPSC XXXII, 1576.pdf.

12.  Marhas K. K., Krot A. N. and Goswami J. N. (2001) Al-Mg isotopic systematics in CAIs from CR chondrites. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 36, A121.

13.  Marhas K. K., Goswami J. N and Davis A. M. (2002) A limit on energetic particle irradiation of the solar nebula, Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 37, A94.

14.  J. N. Goswami, M. P. Deomurari, K. K. Marhas and J. N. Grossman (2002) Al-Mg isotopic systematics in Semarkona chondrules. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 37, A55.

15.  Hoppe P., Nittler L. R., Mostefaoui S., Alexander C. M. O'D. and Marhas K. K. (2003) A nanoSIMS study of  titanium-isotopic compositions of presolar corundum grains. LPSC XXXIV, 1570.pdf.

16.  Nittler L. R., Hoppe P., Alexander C. M. O'D., Busso M., Gallino R., Marhas K. K. and Nollet K. (2003) Magnesium isotopes in presolar spinel. LPSC XXXIV, 1703.pdf

17.  Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (2003) Be- B isotope systematics in CV and CM hibonites: Implications for solar energetic particle production of short-lived nuclides in early solar system. LPSC XXXIV, 1303.pdf

18.  Marhas K. K., Hoppe P. and  Ott U. (2003) A nanosims study of C-, Si- and Ba-isotopic composition of individual presolar silicon carbide grains from the Murchison meteorite. Meteoritics and Planet. Sci 38, A58.

19.  Mostefaoui S., P. Hoppe, K. K. Marhas, and E. Gr�ner (2003)  Search for in situ presolar oxygen-rich dust in meteorites.  Meteoritics and Planet. Sci, 38.

20.  Hutcheon I. D., Krot A. N., Marhas K. K. and Goswami J. N. (2004) Magnesium isotopic compositions of igneous CAIs in the CR carbonaceous chondrites: Evidence for an early and late stage melting of CAIs. LPSC XXXV

21.  Marhas K. K., Hoppe P. and Besmehn A. (2004) A nanosims study of iron-isotopic compositions in presolar silicon carbide grains.  LPSC XXXV

22.  Mostefaoui S., Marhas K. K. and P. Hoppe (2004) Discovery of an in-situ presolar silicate grain with GEM-like composition in the Bishunpur matrix.  LPSC XXXV

23.  P. Hoppe, Marhas K. K., Gallino R., Straniero O., Amari S. and Lewis R. S. (2004) Aluminum-26 in submicrometer-sized presolar SiC grains.  LPSC XXXV.

24.  Marhas K. K., Hoppe P. and Ott U. (2004) Barium isotopic compositions of presolar silicon
carbide grains from supernovae. 67th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci., A61.

25.  Goswami J. N., Marhas K.K., Chaussidon M., Gounelle M., Meyer B. (2004) Origin of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system. Chondrules and Protoplanetary disk conference.

26.  Marhas K. K ., Hoppe P. and Ott U. (2005) Continued study of Ba isotopic compositions of presolar silicon carbide grains from supernovae.  LPSC XXXVI

27.  Heck Ph. R.., Marhas K. K., Baur H., Hoppe P., and Wieler R. (2005) Presolar He and Ne in single circumstellar SiC grains extracted from the Murchison and Murray meteorites. LPSC XXXVI

28.  Marhas K. K. and Hoppe P. (2005) Presolar grains in the Tagish Lake meteorite. 68th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 5184.pdf

29.  P. Hoppe, P. Heck, F. H�rz, J. Huth, K. K. Marhas, K. Messenger, C. Snead, and A. Westphal (2006) NanoSIMS studies of dust projectile shots into stardust-type aerogel and aluminum foils. LPSC XXXVII

30.    M. Jadhav, T. Maruo-ka, S. Amari, K. K. Marhas, E. Zinner (2006) Si and Mg-Al isotopic studies of presolar graphite from Orgueil. LPSC XXXVII

31.  Ph. R. Heck, P. Hoppe, E. Gr�ner, K. K. Marhas, H. Baur and R. Wieler (2006) Automated search for rare presolar silicon carbide from novae and of type A/B: a combined isotopic study of single grains with nanoSIMS and noble gas mass spectrometry. LPSC XXXVII

32.  The Stardust Cratering Team: Friedrich H�rz (Team-Lead), J. Borg, J. P. Bradley, J. Bridges, D. E., Brownlee (PI), M. J. Burchell, M. J. Cole, Z. R. Dai, Z. Djouadi, C. Floss, I. A. Franchi, G. A.Graham, S. F. Green, P. Heck, P. Hoppe, A. T. Kearsley, J. Leitner, H. Leroux, N. Teslich, K. K.Marhas, C. S. Schwandt, T. H. See, F. J. Stadermann, T. Stephan, D. Troadec, P. Tsou1 and M. E. Zolensky (2006) Microcraters in aluminum foils exposed by stardust. LPSC XXXVII

33.  K. K. Marhas, P. Hoppe, F. J. Stadermann, C. Floss and A. S. Lea (2006) Presolar grains in CI and CO meteorites: implications of aqueous alteration.  LPSC XXXVII

34.  The Stardust Isotope Team: McKeegan K., Aleon J., Alexander C., Bradley J., Brownlee D., Burnard P., Butterworth A., Chaussidon M., Davis A., Floss C., Gilmour J., Guan Y., Hohenberg C., Hoppe P., Hutcheon I., Ito M., Jacobsen S., Leshin L., Lyon I., Marhas K., Marty B., Meibom A., Meshik A., Messenger S., Nakamura K., Nittler L., Palma R., Pellin M., Pepin R., Tsou P., Robert F., Schlutter D., Stadermann F., Stroud R.,Westphal A., Young E., Ziegler K., Zinner E.(2006) Isotopic compositions of cometary matter returned by the stardust mission. 69th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

35.  Marhas K. K., Hoppe P. and Ott U.(2006) Trace elements in presolar sic grains: condensation vs implantation. 69th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

36.  Heck Ph. R., Hoppe P., Gr�ner E., Marhas K. K., Baur H. and Wieler R.(2006) Rare presolar silicon carbide grains from novae: an automated search by nanoSIMS. . 69th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

37. Gyngard F., Amari S., Jadhav M., Marhas K., Zinner E., and Lewis R. S. (2006) Titanium isotopic ratios in KJG presolar SiC grains from Murchison. 69th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

38. Westphal A. et al. (2007) Nonrandom spatial distribution of impacts in the stardust cometary collector. LPSC XXXVIII

39. Sokol A.K., Bischoff A., Marhas K. K, Mezger K. and Zinner E. (2007) Early solar system chronology: simultaneous accretion of differentiated and metamorphosed asteroidal clasts and chondrules? LPSC XXXVIII

40.    Borg J. et al. (2007) SEM-EDS analyses of small craters in stardust aluminium foils: implications for the wild-2 dust distribution. LPSC XXXVIII 1592.pdf

41.    Marhas K. K., Amari S., Gyngard F., Zinner E. and Lewis R. S. (2007) Fe isotopic composition of presolar SiC grains. LPSC XXXVIII 2124.pdf

42.    M. Jadhav, S. Amari, K. K. Marhas, E. Zinner, T. Maruoka and R. Gallino (2007) Ca and Ti isotopic ratios in high-density graphite grains from Orgueil. (2007) LPSC XXXVIII

43.    Burchell M. J., Kearsley A. T., Wozniakiewicz P. J., H�rz F., Borg J., Graham G. A., Leroux H., Bridges J. C., Bland P. A., Bradley J. P., Dai Z. R.,Teslich N., See T., Warren J., Bastien R., Hoppe P., Heck P.R., Huth J., Stadermann F. J., Floss C., Marhas K., Stephan T., Leitner J., and Green S. F. (2007) Stardust: An overview of the craters in aluminium foils (calibration, classification and particle size distribution). European Planetary Science Congress, Potsdam.

44.    Marhas K. K. , Amari S., Gyngard F. and Zinner E. (2007) Fe isotopic composition of supernova grains. 70th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 5274.pdf

45.    Jadhav M, Savina M. R., Knight K. B., Levine J., Pellin M. J., Amari S., Marhas K. K., Zinner E. Maruoka T. and Gallino R. (2007) NanoSIMS and RIMS isotopic studies of high-density graphite grains from orgueil. 70th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

46.    Marhas K. K., Goswami J. N. and Singh A. (2009) Li-Be-B isotope systematic in CV3 meteorites. 72nd Meteoritics and Planet. Sci.

47.    Y. Kadlag and K. K. Marhas (2009) Quasi Simultaneous Arrival (QSA) effect in nano-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (nano-SIMS) 11th ISMAS TRICON 24th-28th Nov. 2009, Hyderabad.

48.    Marhas K. K. (2011) 'Origin of short lived nuclides: information from Li-Be-B isotopic systematic' 1-3rd march  Astronomy with Radioactivities VII, Monash University, Australia

49.    Y. Kadlag and K. K. Marhas (2011) LiBeB in refractory Hibonite Object. 7th-12th August, 74th Meteoritics and Planet. Sci. 5303.pdf

50.    Kadlag Y. and Marhas K. K. (2011) Aluminium-Magnesium Systematics in CV3 Calcium Aluminium Rich Inclusions. 14th ISMAS-WS 7th-11th Nov., Munnar .

51.    Marhas K. K. (2011) Late irradiation scenario for the production of short lived nuclides in the early solar system. , 'Formation of the First Solids in the Solar System' November 7-9 Hawaii.

52.    Sameer, J. Randhawa and Marhas K. K. (2012) Quest for presolar grains. NSSS 14th-17th Feb., Tirupati.

53.    Marhas K. K. and J. Randhawa (2012) Production of short lived radionuclides: Late-stage irradiation in the early solar system. 43rd Lunar and Planetary Sci. Conf. 2410.pdf


Students guided for projects:

1.    "Calcium Aluminum Inclusions in Type 3 Carbonaceous Chondrites" by Michelle Viswanathan from I.I.T. Roorkee, June 2008. Summer training program: 2 months.

2.    "Designing an image system attached to secondary ion mass spectrometer" by Pooja Shah from Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama. (Affiliated to Gujarat University, Ahmedabad) May 2008. B.E final year project: 4 months.

3.    "Designing an image system attached to secondary ion mass spectrometer" by Sonal Shah from Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama. (Affiliated to Gujarat University, Ahmedabad), May 2008. B.E final year project: 4 months.

4.    "NanoSIMS data reduction programme" by Neel Dani of Rollwala Computer center, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, May 2008. B.E final year project: 4 months.

5.    "Insitu search of presolar grains from Tagish Lake meteorite" by Iman Guha at Physical Research Laboratory, Jan 2008. Ph.D. course project: 6 months.

6.    "Isotopic studies of presolar Silicon Carbide grains from Murchison Meteorite" by Ashish Raj at Physical Research Laboratory, Jan 2008. Ph.D. course project: 6 months.

7.    "Calcium Aluminum Inclusion from Allende meteorite" by Yogita Uttam Kadlag at Physical Research Laboratory, Jan 2009. Ph.D. course project: 6 months.

8.     "User Friendly Program for nanoSIMS Data and Image Reduction" by Saburi Pandey of Dharmsinh Desai University, April 2009. B.E. final year project: 4 months.

9.    "User Friendly Program for nanoSIMS Data and Image Reduction" by Sradha Panchamiya of Dharmsinh Desai University, April 2009. B.E final year project: 4 months.

10.    "24 channel data acquisition system using USB2.0 and real time monitoring system over intranet for SIMS" by Sunil Pillai of Gujarat University, April 2009. B.E final year project: 4 months. (check:  http:// 172.16.13.153/dashboard.prl/login.aspx)

11.     "Designing a macro to identify minerals found in early solar system objects" by Iti Gupta. Summer internship program, 26th May to 10th July 2009. B. Sc. (Hons.) Geology, Dept. of Geology, University of Delhi. Project: 2 months.

12.    "Designing a macro to identify minerals found in early solar system objects" by Ravish Lal. Summer internship program, 26th May to 10th July 2009. B. Sc. (Hons.) Geology, Dept. of Geology, University of Delhi. Project: 2 months.

13.    "Preparation of Meteorite thick section samples for insitu analysis in search of presolar grains". Summer internship program 11th May to 10th July 2009. MSc Physics, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Project: 2 months.

14.    "Al-Mg systematic" by Jalpa Dadhaniya. Three week internship program, October 2009. M. Sc. Physics, Saurashtra University, Rajkot. Project: 3 weeks.

15.    "Study of meteoritic hibonite" by Dinesh Kumar at Physical Research Laboratory, Oct 2010. Ph.D. course project: 2 months.

16.    "Calcium Aluminum Inclusion from Allende meteorite", by Gaurav Sharma at Physical Research Laboratory, Dec. 2010. Ph.D. course project: 2 months.

17.    "Presolar Silicates" by Bhavya at Physical Research Laboratory, Dec. 2010. Ph.D. course project: 2 months.

18.    "Standard Solar Model" by Vikram Vasudev Verma,4 months project, IIST, Feb-May 2011.

19.    "Presolar silicates: astronomical observations vs. experimental techniques" by Abhishek Chhari, 4 months project, IIST, Jan-Apr 2012.

20.    "Oxygen Isotopes study in Micrometeorites" by Jayesh Agrawal, 4 months project,IIST, Jan-Apr 2012.

Dr.K.K.Marhas
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