Aritra's curriculum vitae

2020--present: Staff Astronomer at Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg, Germany
2017--present: Guest Researcher at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

2017--2020: Research Associate at Universität Bielefeld, Germany
2014--2017: Postdoc at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
2013--2014: CEFIPRA postdoctoral fellow, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India

2007--2013: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India

2005--2007: Master of Science (Physics), University of Pune, India
2002--2005: Bachelor of Science (Physics), St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India

Project Scientist of the MPIfR MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey: MMGPS [Imaging of 3000 h of observations]
Associate member of the German D-MeerKAT consortium
Chair of the Dark Matter Focus group of the SKA Cosmic Magnetism Science Working Group
Science working group of the German Long Wavelength Consortium
Member of the Polarisation Sky Survey of the Universe's Magnetism (POSSUM)
Member of the LOFAR Magnetism and Surveys Key Science Projects (MKSP and SKSP)
Junior member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (German Astronomical Society)

Over 300 hours using the GMRT
Over 75 hours using the JVLA
90 hours using the VLBA
24 hours using the MeerKAT (as Co-I)
30 hours using the uGMRT (as Co-I)

Manuscript Reviewer: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A), Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), MDPI Galaxies, Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (JoAA), Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)

Telescope proposal referee: Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT)

Click here for a full list of publications [pdf] [NASA-ADS].

• Probing the morphology of polarized emission induced by fluctuation dynamo using Minkowski functionals

  Dutta, Riju; Sur, Sharanya and Basu, Aritra
  2024, Astrophysical Journal, 976, 168 [arXiv:2408.04581]

• The dispersion measure and rotation measure from fast radio burst host galaxies based on the IllustrisTNG50 simulation

  Kovács, Tímea; Mao, Sui Ann; Basu, Aritra ; Ma, Yik Ki; Pakmor, Rüdiger; Spitler, Laura and Walker, Charles
  2024, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 690, A47 [arXiv:2407.16748]

• Probing magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium using polarization data from MIGHTEE

  Böckmann, Kathrin: Brüggen, Marcus; Heesen, Volker; Basu, Aritra; O'Sullivan, Shane. P.; Heywood, Ian; Jarvis, Matt; Scaife, Anna; Stil, Jeroen; Taylor, Russ; Adams, Nathan; Bowler, Rebecca and Tudorache, Madalina N.
  2023, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 678, A56 [arXiv:2308.11391]

• A low frequency sub-arcsecond view of powerful radio galaxies in rich-cluster environments: 3C 34 and 3C 320

  Mahatma, Vijay; Basu, Aritra; Hardcastle, Martin; Morabito, Leah and van Weeren, Rainout
  2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 520, 4427-4442 [arXiv:2302.01357]

• Properties of Polarized Synchrotron Emission from Fluctuation Dynamo Action -- II. Effects of Turbulence Driving in the ICM and Beam Smoothing

  Basu, Aritra and Sur, Sharanya
  2021, MDPI Galaxies, 9, 62. [Special issue on A New Window on the Radio Emission from Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters and Cosmic Web: Current Status and Perspectives]

• Searching for axionlike particles under strong gravitational lenses

  Basu, Aritra; Goswami, Jishnu; Schwarz, Dominik J. and Urakawa, Yuko
  2021, Physical Review Letters, 126, 191102. [arXiv:2007.01440]

• Properties of polarized synchrotron emission from fluctuation dynamo action -- I. Application to galaxy clusters

  Sur, Sharanya; Basu, Aritra; and Subramanian, Kandaswamy
  2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501, 3332-3349. [arXiv:2011.08499]