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Current employment:
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Professor of Astrophysics and Head, Department of Physics
Sonipat, Haryana 131029, India
May 12, 2025 is the deadline to enrol for my course "Stars, Stardust and Us" in Ashoka Horizons Achievers Programme for High School students. Click here to know more.
My research:
I work mainly in the area of High Energy Astrophysics. My specific interests are Compact Stars, Supernova Remnants and Gamma Ray Bursts. At present my research group is focussing on aspects of superfluid dynamics in neutron stars, accretion flow near black holes and the origin of polarised hard X-ray emission from a variety of sources including gamma ray bursts.
Developmental activities:
I have been closely involved in developmental work related to the Indian space astronomy mission ASTROSAT. My contributions have mainly been in the design of Coded Mask imaging elements and data pipeline and analysis software. See the ASTROSAT website for more details on this mission.
Teaching:
Teaching at Ashoka University:
PHY/AST-1080 Observing the Cosmos (Laboratory) (2023 - 2025)
PHY/AST-3860 The Violent Universe (2023, 2024)
AST/PHY-3870/4870/6870 Cosmic Messengers-1 (Theory) (2025)
AST/PHY-3880/4880/6880 Cosmic Messengers-2 (Laboratory) (2023-2025)
PHY/AST-4830/6830 Computational Astrophysics and Geophysics (2022-2025)
PHY-3010 Physics Lab 4: Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics (2022)
YIF-2213: The Universe and Us (2023)
YIF-EL-2312: Exploring the Universe (2024, 2025)
Online material of some of my previous courses are linked below:
Online notes of my course on Fundamentals of Astrophysics may be found at this link and of 2015 topical course on Compact Stars at this link
The website of my 2013 grad school course on Introductory Astrophysics is linked here
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