Research

Welcome to my Research Page. Some of the problems currently I am working on are as follows:

• • Three dimensional structure of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as traced by fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars

  • Geometry of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the multi-wavelength photometry of classical Cepheids

  • Reconstruction of the sparsely sampled light curves of variable stars to determine their mean magnitudes as well as other light curve parameters for astronomical distance determinations

  • Development of template fitting techniques based on principal component analysis and simulated annealing for galactic and extra-galactic distance determinations

  • Light curve modeling of eclipsing binary stars

  • Machine learning tools and techniques for astronomical data analysis and light curve curve analysis of variable stars

  • Gravitational N-body Simulation: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)

  • Planetary Scale Collision Dynamics

Recent articles published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 2018-2019:

1. Geometry of the Large Magellanic Cloud Using Multiwavelength Photometry of Classical Cepheids, Sukanta Deb,  Chow-Choong Ngeow, Shashi M. Kanbur, Harinder P. Singh, Daniel Wysocki and Subhash Kumar

   1. Morphology of the Small Magellanic Cloud using multiwavelength photometry of classical Cepheids, Sukanta Deb, Kerdaris Kurbah, Harinder P Singh, Shashi M Kanbur, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Biman J Medhi, Subhash Kumar

Ongoing Research Project (2019-2022):

Name of the Project: Variable Stars As Astrophysical Laboratories

Name of the Principal Investigator: Dr. Sukanta Deb, Department of Physics, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam (India)

Funded By: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi

Approximate Budget: 20 Lakhs

Registered PhD Scholars:

1. Kerdaris Kurbah (Thesis Title: "Leveraging Variable Stars in Modern Astronomy")

2. Mami Deka (Thesis Title: "Exploring 3D structures of Galaxies using Variable Stars")

3. Gautam Bhuyan (Thesis Title: "Probing Dark Energy using Cosmic Tracers ") 

Note: Anybody having a CSIR JRF (NET) in Physical Sciences or having any Fellowship willing to join under my guidance as a PhD student may contact me. I will take a PhD scholar in Summer, 2024 for Numerical N-body Simulations in Astrophysics.