36th Annual Report (2023-24)

71 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Kartav Kesri (BS-MS student, IISER Bhopal) Study of Compact stars in the Buchdahl limit. (co-supervised with Naresh Dadhich) S.V.Dhurandhar Devashree Kulkarni (B.Sc. final year project, Fergusson College, Pune) completed her project on Special and General Relativity and Applications. The application of relativity chosen for the project was the Global Positioning System(GPS). Gautam Singh and Dalika Joshi (B.Sc. third-year project, Fergusson College, Pune). Both are working on Special and General Relativity and Applications. The application is Shapiro time-delay and gravitational lensing. NeerajGupta Shashank Soni (IISER, Pune) January –December 2024 Trishala Majumdar (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Properties of young radio loud AGN inMALS. Soubhik Pramanik (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Multiwavelength properties of galaxies inMALS. SanjitMitra Sakshi Kumar (IIT, Kharagpur, M.Tech Project, July 2023 - April 2024) AnupreetaMore Arshi Ali (SPPU M. Sc.) Gravitational Lensing and Precision with GW+EMLensed Signals. Abhinandan Saha (IISER, Tirupati) A Search for Quadruply LensedQuasars fromtheHSCSurvey. Prajakta Mane (IISER, Mohali), Strategies to identify strongly lensed type Ia supernovae in Rubin LSST (co-supervised with SurhudMore). Soorya Narayan (IISER Pune) Machine learning algorithm to identify gravitational lensing and gravitational wave sources. Alwin Andrews (NIT, Meghalaya) Effects of lens model systematics on the constraints onH0 Siddhant Shrivastava (NSUT, Delhi) Study of eccentric, precessing andmicrolensedGWsignalswithmachine learning. Anirban Kopty (IUCAA Graduate student project) Exploring direct cross-correlation analysis of GW data for identification of lensing candidates. SurhudMore Parmeshwar Dewangan (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) A search for infalling groups into galaxy clusters. Prajakta Mane (IISER, Mohali) Strategies to identify strongly lensed type Ia supernovae in Rubin LSST ( co-supervised with AnupreetaMore) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Devesh Yadav (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Determining Hubble constant fromGravitational wave data. SowgatMuzahid Mrinmoy Karmakar (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc .) Survey of emission line galaxies usingMUSE. Rajdeep Nandi (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Exploring galaxy scaling relations using SDSS andDESI. Subhadip Bhattacharjee (SPPU M.Sc.) MUSE Survey of Lyman- alpha emitters at high redshifts. Sukanya Mallik (IUCAA PhD student – Project to fulfil the requirement of a 'Topical Course') Understanding the curious over density of Lyman-alpha absorbers at z = 0.3 towards QSO 3C57. VaidehiPaliya Moumita Pal (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Hunting BL Lacertae Objects Among Fermi Blazar Candidates of Uncertain Type. Suptotthita Ghosh (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Identifying blazar candidates among gamma-ray sources: a multi-wavelength approach. Srijita Hazra (M.Sc. Physics, St. Xaviers College, Mumbai) A Broadband Study of the Most Distant Gamma-ray Emitting BL LacertaeObject. AseemParanjape Aryan Singh (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Cosmological N-body simulations . Payaswinee Dhoke (M.P. Deo Memorial College, Nagpur) ongoing long-term project on Excursion set techniques for alternate darkmattermodels . KanakSaha Mayank Sekhar Singh (MS final year thesis (ongoing), IISER, Pune) UV image processing using Lucy's algorithm DhrubaJ.Saikia Kshitij Chavan (IUCAA) Double-double radio galaxies (co- supervised by Pratik Dabhade). Rushikesh N. Bhutkar (University of Manitoba, Canada) Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources and Unification Scheme (co-supervised by YogeshChandola). Rahul Musale (Kr. V.N. Naik Shikshan Prasarak Sanstha's Arts, Commerce and Science College, Nashik) Compact Steep Spectrum Radio Sources and Unification Scheme (co- supervised by YogeshChandola). NishantSingh Abinash Dehuri (SPPU-IUCAA M.Sc.) Solar f mode using data fromHelioseismic andMagnetic Imager onboardSDO