My thesis is divided into two parts:
Part-I
The main theme of this part is
a) To study the characteristic properties of triggered star formation due to cloud-cloud collision and
radiation driven implosion processes using optical polarimetry and molecular lines (12CO, C18O,
HCN and N2H+) observations.
b) To study the accretion properties of young stellar objects associated with the bright-rimmed
clouds using near-IR spectroscopy.
c) To study the dust and gas properties of λ-Ori HII using multi-wavelength optical polarimetry,
Planck and WISE archival data.
Part-II
The main theme of this part is to develop
a) A complete Zemax design of a wide field optical polarimeter to be used with 1.3m telescope -
WiFi-Pol.
b) A pipeline software in python that can be used to reduce polarimetric data of AIMPOL and
WiFi-Pol.