Radio Astronomy





My research in Radio Astronomy

The National Centre for Radio Astronomy (NCRA) Pune, India, hosts one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world at low frequencies (50 MHz-1400 Mhz) called the Giant Meter wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) . After joining NCRA in 2008, I have been working on various computational aspects of radio transients observation using the GMRT. Some of the techniques which are employed to observe transients are identical to the techniques employed to observe radio pulsars.

My Publications

  1. Jayanti Prasad and Jayaram Chengalur (2011)
    Experimental Astronomy [arXiv: 1111.6415 ]
    FLAGCAL:A flagging and calibration package for radio interferometric data
  2. Abhik Ghosh, Jayanti Prasad, Somnath Bharadwaj, Sk. Saiyad Ali, Jayaram N. Chengalur (2012)
    MNRAS (2012) Vol. 426, Issue 4, pages 3295–3314 [arXiv:1208.1617v1]
    Characterizing Foreground for redshifted 21-cm radiation: 150 MHz GMRT observations
  3. N. D. R. Bhat, J. N. Chengalur, P. J. Cox, Y. Gupta, J. Prasad, J. Roy, M. Bailes, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. S. Kudale, W. van Straten (2013), Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
    [arXiv:1302.3418
    Detection of fast transients with radio interferometric arrays

My notes

I have been learning one thing or another at various points of time, and found it very useful (at least for me !) to write things down. Here are some of my notes which are neither properly checked nor edited (if you want to help me in that please let me know !).

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Imgaing pipeline

I am working on an imaging pipeline for the GMRT which is underdevelopment. However, the beta version for it is avalibale for testing. Download it from here the following link and ask me for the password.

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