Asteroid Occultation reporting

Star Occultation Hip 65379 with asteroid parthenope 11 at 2:54 am (UT), in 2014.12.13
Hip 65379 star occur occultation from main belt in constellation Virgo by asteroid parthenope 11
According to planning was performed, three observational groups located shadow band to do observed in cities Dezful, Zarghan and Khoramshahr.
In Dezful township, occultation to be success with observation and timing.


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Publication of IOTA/ME members'paper

Second ISI paper of the Iranian permanent members of IOTA/ME was published in the New Astronomy journal with the help of Iranian Space Agency (ISA). This paper entitled New Light Curve Analysis and Period Changes of the Overcontact Binary EQ Tauri is compiled by Farida Farsian, Maryam Nemati and Amir Hasanzadeh from Eclipse and Variable Stars department.

Abstract
A photometric CCD study of EQ Tauris was carried out in the R, V and B bands. These new data were analysed by using the PHOEBE and Binary Marker 3 programs, which yielded the geometrical system parameters and mass and radius of both stars. We find these to confirm the results of Pribulla and Vanko (2002). Using these new data together with data from the literature, the orbital period variations were studied by using the Kalimeris method. We find the same timescale of variability of the orbital period as Pribulla and Vanko (2002), namely about 49 years.


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The First Meeting of Associate Members of IOTA/ME

The first meeting of associate members of IOTA/ME was held in Geophysics Center of Tehran University with participation of Atila Poro, Amir Hasanzadeh, Amirnezam Amiri, Elham Salmanzadeh, Shirin Zandian, Meysam Honari Jafarpour, Rahim Heydarnia, Mohammad Hossein Talezadeh, Farida Farsian, Maryam Nemati, Sara Charmchi, Fereshteh Memarian, Houriyeh Aghanoor and Fereshteh Tavakkoli. The important decisions for next programs and projects was evaluated for 4 hours.



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Discontinuous Members workshop IOTA/me was held

This workshop was held in geophysics center of Tehran University in 30 June 2014.
There are 43 members for this department and 32 persons of them attended this workshop. According to board of IOTA/ME directors, workshop joined associated members for training in various subjects. This workshop described future plans and projects. First presentation was related to eclipse project by Mr. Hekmatzade and Ms. Taebjoula.
Other presentation:
- Transit and Detection Methods of Exoplanets, by Amirnezam Amiri
- Physics of the Variable Stars, by Shirin Zandian & Elham Salmanzadeh
- Light Curves, by Fereshteh Memarian
- Effective Factors in Formation of Binary and Multiple Asteroids by Mohammad Reza Shafizadeh
- O-C Diagrams and Their Applications for Variable Stars by Farida Farsian


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Variable Stars, Observation to Analyza Book is published (2014)

For buying: http://www.irysc.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=312
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Workshops on Occultation and exoplanets for IOTA/ME Members (2012)

The workshops for occultation (13 Dec. 2012) and exoplanets (14 Dec. 2012) for IOTA/ME workgroups held at Space Research Institute of Iranian Space Agency, Tehran, Saadat abad. Speakers in These two workshops from 9am up to 13:30 pm talked about different aspect of each workgroup’s activities Particularly on researches in first phase. After the workshops members started their researches for one year.
It should be noted that Exoplanet workgroup with 26 members, Variable stars workgroup with 21 members, Occultation and TNOs workgroup with 12 members, and Construction and development of astronomical instruments workshop with 8 members, have started their activities in IOTA/ME.


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