Automated detection of Gamma-Ray Bursts using AstroSat

As part of the STAR lab team at IIT Bombay, I work on automating the pipeline for detecting Gamma-Ray burst candidates from the CZTI payload onboard the Astrosat satellite (India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space telescope).

My main focus was to improve the pipeline for GRB detection to reduce the turnaround time for blind searches for GRB candidates and triggered searches for Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave (EMGW) candidates for binary mergers of compact objects. I also worked on studying the properties of GRBs and the physics of compact object mergers using the X-ray data from CZTI.