Faculty Name: Dr. Mayukh Pahari
Course Name: Concepts and Hands-On Observational Astrophysics
Course Period: 30 th Jul to 25 th Nov 2024 (Tuesday 4: 00 PM to 05:30 PM; Friday 2:30 PM to 04:00 PM)
Number of Credits: 3 credits
Course Contents: The course will be divided into three parts:
First part: Fundamental concepts in modern astrophysics (stellar, galactic and extragalactic astrophysics),
Second part: Concepts and technologies used in ground-based optical telescopes and space-based satellites used in modern astronomy (Keck, AstroSat, IXPE) and their working principles.
Third part: Working with the real spectroscopic data obtained from ISRO’s space mission AstroSat and NASA’s X-ray polarisation satellite IXPE and relative photometry using large optical telescope.
What you'll learn: The main goal of the course is to introduce students to the modern technologies used in ongoing ground-based and space-based astronomical satellites and how to analyse and obtain helpful information from the data provided by ISRO and NASA’s space-based telescopes. Finally, what we can learn from the data ranges from normal stars like our SUN to Black Holes. With this course, students will be able to grasp fundamental concepts in astrophysics through the hands-on analysis of real observational data using their own laptops/desktops. The techniques they learn in this course will equally be applicable to image processing and spectroscopic analysis.
About the Instructor: Dr. Mayukh Pahari is currently working as an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. After finishing his PhD Research work at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, in 2015, he joined as a postdoctoral fellow at IUCAA, Pune. Later, he received the prestigious Newton International Fellowship, awarded by the Royal Society, UK. He moved to the Department of Astronomy at the University of Southampton in the UK for his post-doctoral research on Active Galactic Nuclei.
His primary research focus is using multi-wavelength astronomical observations to understand the radiation geometry and mechanism around accreting compact objects, particularly black holes. During his final year of PhD and the first couple of years of postdocs, he was engaged in the ground and on-board calibration of the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter onboard AstroSat mission as an instrument team member.
He has been engaged as a member of the International Science Development Team, Thirty Meter Telescope Projects, California, USA. Apart from that, he is also currently working as a team member of the International Chandra and E-Merlin Legacy Survey of Nearby Galaxies and also working as a member of Simultaneous Multi-wavelength Astronomy Research in Transient Network known as the SmartNet by ESO and Canada Collaborations. He has been the Principal Investigator of 17 approved programs with 359 hours in international observations using AstroSat, GMRT, Integral, XMM-Newton, E-Merlin and SALT and has also become co-PI of 23 approved programs, including spacecraft like IXPE, HST and Ultracam.
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Assessment may consist of assignments &/or quizzes &/viva &/or exams.
(More details on assessment will be provided at the start of the course).
Fee: Rs.15,000/- Plus GST
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Last Date for Registration and Payment: 25th July, 2024