CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conducts independent research in astrophysics.
- Publishes research results in high quality peer reviewed National and 必威体育betway888 science journals.
- Guides, teaches and trains PhD students.
- Represent MCNS, 必威体育betway888 University at various national and international science conferences, symposiums and meetings.
- Conducts collaborative research with other leading national and international research institutes and universities.
- Participates in science outreach program.?
Debbijoy Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the 必威体育betway888 Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS).
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SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Basic Astrophysics, Error analysis, Computational Physics |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Astronomy and Astrophysics | ISRO Satellite Centre and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | 2009 |
| MSc | Electronics | Banaras Hindu University | 2002 |
| BSc | Physics (Hons) | University of Calcutta | 2000 |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 必威体育betway888 Centre for Natural Sciences (MCNS) | Assistant Professor | ||
| Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) | Postdoctoral 必威体育betway888 Fellow | 2011-2012 | |
| Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | 必威体育betway888 Associate | 2009-2011 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Area of Expertise
High Energy Astrophysics
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High energy diffuse emissions, active galaxies, SED modelling, dynamics of accretion disk, spin of black hole, x-ray binaries, x-ray and gamma-ray spectral and timing study of astrophysical objects, construct and modelling of broadband spectral energy distribution of active galaxies utilising multi-wavelength observations
Professional Affiliations & Contributions
- Member of Science working group of India's first dedicated X-ray Polarimetry mission "XPOSat"
- Visiting Assosiate of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & AstroPhysics (IUCAA)
- Cordinator of IUCAA centre for Astronomy 必威体育betway888 and Development (ICARD)
Intra-night optical variability of misaligned active galaxies
2018-07-12 Sanna Gulati C S Stalin
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. page no: 3382–3389; Vol:483 (3)
Correlating nonlinear properties with spectral states of RXTE data: Possible observational evidences for four different accretion modes around compact objects
2018-29-01 Oluwashina Adegoke Prasun Dhang Banibrata Mukhopadhyay M. C. Ramadevi
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol:476 (2); Page:1581–1595
Unusual long-term low-activity states of EGRET blazars in the Fermi era
2017-08-11 Mohana A, Krishna Gulati,Sanna Bhattacharyya, Subir Bhatt,Nilay Sreekumar,P Stalin, C. S.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Page No:5008-5017; Vol:471(4)
Does black hole spin play a key role in the FSRQ/BL Lac dichotomy?
2013-13-02 Parameswaran Sreekumar Banibrata Mukhopadhyay Ishan Tomar
必威体育betway888 in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol:16(54), Page:1-8
The uncorrelated long term gamma-ray and X-ray variability of blazars and its implications on disk-jet coupling.
2013-25-03 Ranjeev Misra A. R. Rao P.Sreekumar
Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Vol 431,Page:1618-1624
Observational evidences for spinning black holes: a proof of general relativity for space time around rotating black holes.
2012-13-11 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay P. Sreekumar
必威体育betway888 Journal of Modern Physics, D 21 (11), 1250086 (19 pages). World Scientific Publishing, Singapore
Contributions from radio-loud AGNs to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB)
2011-11-01 P. Sreekumar M. Boettcher R. Mukherjee M. Errando
The 3rd Fermi Symposium, Rome, Italy, Debbijoy Bhattacharya
Disk-outflow coupling: Energetics around spinning black holes
2010-18-03 Shubhrangshu Ghosh Banibrata Mukhopadhyay
Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Vol 713;Page 105-114.
Contribution from unresolved discrete sources to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB)
2009-10-07 P. Sreekumar R. Mukherjee
必威体育betway888 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), Vol 9;Page:1205-1214 .
Gamma-ray luminosity function of gamma-ray bright AGNs
2009-17-12 P. Sreekumar R. Mukherjee
必威体育betway888 in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA), Vol:9; Page:85-94.
Contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background from discrete sources
2007-05-02 P. Sreekumar R. Mukherjee
First Fermi Symposium, Stanford university, USA, AIP Proceedings. Vol:921; Page:480-481.
SLX 1746-311 in outburst
2006-12-01 K. C Shyama Narendranath M. C. Ramadevi M. Sudhakar P. Sreekumar S. Seetha
Advances in space research. Vol:38, Page:2788-2790 .
Contribution from normal galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background
2005-25-08 Parameswaran Sreekumar
BASI. Vol:33, Page:407-408.