Research
MS Thesis
As a part of my MS thesis project, I worked with Dr Koushik Dutta of the Department of Physical Sciences at IISER Kolkata and Dr H.V. Ragavendra of Raman Research Institute in Inflationary Cosmology. Under this project, I have written codes from scratch in python language that can calculate background evolution and power spectrum for a given single field potential. I am also exploring non-Gaussianities that arise during inflation (depending on the model) and have evolved to give the present structure in the universe. To understand the various aspects of this project, I worked with Prof. Rajesh Kumble Nayak of the Department of Physical Sciences at IISER Kolkata for my Independent Study, examining the properties of primordial gravity waves.
Here is the link to my codes in Cosmology.
Project on Pulsars
As a selected candidate for the "National Initiative on Undergraduate Science" (NIUS) scholarship, I got the opportunity to work under Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharyya of the National Center for Radio Astrophysics on two projects: "Identifying Pulsar signals from the GMRT telescope's raw data" and "Study of properties of Millisecond Pulsars" that fully funded my research. In the former project, I used the "PRESTO" software to detect pulsar signals from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) radio data. In the latter, I determined the binary period and its relation to the mass of the pulsar's companion star and the eccentricity of its orbit for a sample of 200+ millisecond pulsars available in the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsar catalogue.
Here is the link to my reports for both projects:
"Study of the Pulsars Discovered with the GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey" and
"Study of the Pulsars Discovered with the GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey-II"