Research Area, Education & Work Experience

1- The aim of the research project is to understand the physical mechanism and other properties of peculiar novae using the good quality data from 3.6m ARIES, 2m HCT as well as 8-10m class telescopes. The prime objectives will be studying and understanding the characteristics of novae in details like understanding the process of dust formation in these objects, studying the evolution of spectra in the optical and IR, identifying and understanding the different lines that are seen in the optical and near-IR spectra like their strengths, temporal variations etc. and investigating the physical properties of the underlying system.

2. Investigation of dust around early-type stars of low luminosity. The existence of large amounts of circumstellar (CS) matter near hot stars with initially 2–20 solar masses is a long-standing puzzle of stellar astrophysics. The high-resolution spectroscopic observations will be done using HESP (HCT, IIA) and other national and international facilities to solve this puzzle.