Hi, 

Work

Main Research Areas: Polarimetric study of kpc-scale radio outflows of Blazars, Fanaroff-Riley dichotomy and Blazar Divide in Radio-loud AGN

Supervisor: Preeti Kharb

Selected publications:

1. Investigating Differences in the Palomar-Green Blazar Population Using Polarization

2. A Kpc-scale radio polarization study of PG BL Lacs with the uGMRT

3. A Polarimetric Study of 9 PG Quasars with the VLA

4. A Polarization Study of 3 Blazars using the uGMRT at ~600 MHz

All publications:

Astronomy Data Service

Arxiv Preprint Server

Improved CASA-based polarization pipeline for uGMRT:

 Improved CASA-based polarization pipeline for uGMRT:

https://github.com/jbaghel/Improved-uGMRT-polarization-pipeline

This pipeline has so far been tested extensively on Band 4 uGMRT data. 

Please cite the following paper if you use this pipeline for publication purposes

Citation Link

Other pipelines:

https://sites.google.com/view/ugmrtdatapipelines/home

Biography:

I joined the Integrated Ph.D. program at NCRA-TIFR in July 2018.

Did the first year of M.Sc. course work at the Department of Physics, Savitribai Phule Pune University followed by a year at IUCAA-NCRA Graduate School.

I worked with Preeti Kharb for my doctoral research with my Ph.D. thesis titled 'Examining the Fanaroff-Riley & Blazar Divide in Palomar Green Blazars'. I completed my thesis in 2025.

Research description:

    The aim of my Ph.D. thesis is to probe the Fanaroff-Riley (FR) dichotomy and the Blazar Divide in radio-loud AGN belonging to the `complete' Palomar Green (PG) sample.  We seek to examine the polarization at low radio frequencies to look for differences in the kpc-scale magnetic field structures between RL quasars and BL Lacs.  Our aim is to understand why and how jets are different between the FR sub-classes and if this difference is due to intrinsic properties related to the SMBH - accretion disk systems, or due to extrinsic properties like the density of kpc-scale environments, which influence the jet-medium interaction.

Education:

B.Sc. (Physics Honours) 

[Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi]

Integrated Ph.D.

[National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune]

Contact : 

   Email: jbaghel@ncra.tifr.res.in

Phone: +91-20-2571 9451

Office: F255, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,

Savitribai Phule Pune University Campus,

Pune 411 007

Maharashtra, INDIA