Walk-in-Interview for Project Associate - Operation and maintenance of the ILMT

Walk-in-Interview for Project Associate - Operation and maintenance of the ILMT

The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) has been jointly installed at the Devasthal campus of ARIES, Nainital, in collaboration with the University of Liège in Belgium, the University of British Columbia in Canada and the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES) in India. The mercury mirror of the ILMT has a 4.0-m diameter and performs zenith mode observations in SDSS g’, r’ and i’ filters. A 4k X 4k CCD camera is installed at the prime focus of the ILMT. The project is expected to continuously survey the 22 arcmin strip of the zenith sky at a latitude of +29° 22’ 26” for a nominal lifetime of 5 years. The survey generates around 20 GB of data each night.

Eligible Candidates are invited for a Walk-in Interview on 5th November 2024 at ARIES, Manora Peak Campus, Nainital-263001, Uttarakhand. 

S.No. Position No. of Post Interview Date Application Form
1. Project Associate 01 05-Nov-2024, 09 AM

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Essential Qualification:

Master's degree in Physics/Astrophysics 

Desirable:

Prior experience in astronomy/astrophysics and Python programming language

Description of the job and Responsibilities:

  • Regular maintenance and operational activities of the ILMT, including careful and critical manipulation of mercury.
  • Participation in night observations with the telescope.
  • Assess the quality of the observed data and perform steps to improve the quality.
  • Performing data reduction and analysis of the ILMT data like pre-processing, photometric reduction, etc., but not limited to these tasks.
  • Debugging and integrating existing image processing source codes.
  • Developing a database related to storing and accessing the ILMT photometric and astrometric calibrated data.
  • Developing GUI for data display, data request and data dissemination.

Terms and Conditions:

  1. Tenure: For One (01) year.
  2. Monthly Emolument: Rs. 25,000 + HRA for Project Associate-I as per the Central Government norms.
  3. Upper Age Limit: 35 years
  4. Termination: Director ARIES reserves the right to terminate the engagement/contract at any stage in case of impropriety, misconduct, breach of conditions, irregular attendance, or poor performance quality.
  5. Posting: The selected candidate will be posted at the Devasthal Observatory of ARIES.
  6. All other Terms & conditions shall be governed as per the Institute norms.

All enquiries related to this position can be made to kuntal@aries.res.in.