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Staff Astronomer

Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg

Sternwarte 5, 07778 Tautenburg, Germany

 

ORCiD 0000-0003-2030-3394       LinkedIn
 
email: abasu [at] tls-tautenburg.de
Office: D11 Haus M; Phone: +49-36427-863-68

I am a Staff Astronomer at the Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg (TLS; State Observatory of Thuringia) and a Guest Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn. TLS is located in the Tautenburg forest in the Eastern part of Germany. My main research interest revolves around spectropolarimetry at radio wavelengths to study the cosmic evolution of turbulent magneto-ionic media in various astrophysical objects, such as, galaxies, galaxy clusters, CMB foregrounds, active galactic nuclei (AGN), etc. I also work on applying various techniques of radio polarimetry to hunt for imprints of different types of dark matter particles on astrophysical signals. I regularly use large radio telescope facilities like the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) in the USA, the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in India, the MeerKAT in South Africa, the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) in the Netherlands and central Europe, and the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) in Autralia for my research.

 

In and around TLS

Winter @ TLS

The TLS lawn during the winter of 2021. Calvin and Hobbes were here!

Through the looking glass

A view from the office window
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LOFAR stations @ TLS

Can you spot them?
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A radio snowman

"A colourful photograph of a black & white world, or a black & white photograph of a colourful world!"
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Giant mushrooms @ TLS

Umm... not so tasty!
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More red ones

Before they exploded!!!
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Biking to TLS

The struggle is real!