Astro Projects
Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger
Undergraduate Thesis (2024 - Present)
Localization of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is important for the follow-up of their afterglows. In this project, I worked on the localization of GRBs using the AstroSat Mass Model and generated probability contours for the GRBs detected by AstroSat. As of now I am working on the localization of fainter GRBs.
GW Physics and Astronomy (2024)
In this course project, I used smoothly broken power law to find the best fit for luminosity distance, primary secondary, and total mass for BBH data of the GWTC-3 catalog and made an attempt to find the astrophysical arguments for the observed peaks and valleys in the fits. This is actually the project where I started to appreciate stellar physics and evolution more than ever before.
Credits: ESO/L. Calçada
Astrophysics (2023)
This project was my first hands-on astronomy. In this project, our team analyzed the optical data of a short-period binary obtained from the GROWTH India Telescope and compared the results like masses, temperature, radii, etc. of the sources with the reference on the binaries.
Other Projects
Here, you can find the reports of my projects which are not astrophysical in nature.
Electromagnetic Theory (2024)
This was a paper reading project, where we used momentum conservation and force expression to identify the form of the stress tensor in a ponderable media, hence reproducing the results of the paper.
Credits: University of Rochester illustration / M. Osadciw
Photonics (2023)
This was a very interesting paper reading project where we showed that photonic hyper-crystals can be used as gates where logic states can be defined using intensity or polarization of light.
One of the things about this project that makes it memorable for me is that I found probable inconsistencies in the paper while reading it. I compiled it in a PDF and sent its link to the author of the paper, but realized after a year that I forgot to give the access.
Supervised Learning Project (2024)
I had taken this project to explore the field. I started with the Klein-Gordon equation and went on to cover the Dirac Equation. The primary resources that I used were Halzen and Martin and Aitchison and Hey.
Credits: NoetherSym
Microprocessors Lab (2023)
Designed and created a 100m range wireless Morse to alphanumeric converter using Arduino, transceiver modules with a single push button for input signal
Digital Electronics Lab (2023)
This project was so much fun!
Here, I created a one-octave piano that matched the fundamental frequency of the 5th octave quite well using just a 555 timer along with the resistors, and capacitors of the right value. Although simple, the piano made was quite elegant.
Data Analysis and Interpretation (2021)
In this project, we analyzed the net charge fluctuation in p-p collisions at the center of mass energy √s = 13TeV, obtained using the PYTHIA 8 Monte Carlo event generator. With the help of ROOT, we plotted variance, kurtosis, and skewness for net charge w.r.t the mean multiplicity using the minimum chi-square approach.
Programming for Data Science (2023)
This is an assignment from a course that taught me a lot of things about data analysis, especially about the use of ML models. In this assignment, we were supposed to reduce and optimize vibrations and energy, respectively, by controlling some ~20 parameters out of 240.
