Short-term Project Students

Mr. Sahil Puranik (Pune University, Pune), Dec 2024 to Jan 2025
Periodogram analysis from photometric data of Mira Variable

Mr. Dev Thapliyal (IISER, Mohali), Dec 2024 to Dec 2024
Archival Data Analysis for Exoplanetary Studies: Methods and Insights

Ms. Shreyanshi Singh (IISER, Thiruanantpuram), Sep 2024 to Nov 2024
Demography of exoplanets and their hosting stars

Mr. Raghav Kautilya (NIT Agartala), May 2024 to July 2024
Properties of Kepler Confirmed Exoplanets Detected by Transit Method as a Function of Host Star Metallicity

Mr. Nikhil Fernandes (NIT Suratgarh), May 2024 to July 2024
Compiling Catalogues of Population I and Population II Cepheids and Determination of Solar Offset

Mr. Arnab Biswas (NISER, Bhubaneswar), May 2024 to July 2024
Study of a Mira Variable Star in the Field of NGC 559

Ms. Rutanshi Pradhan (Pt. Ravi Shanlkar Univeersity Raipur, Chhattisgarh), July 2023 to January 2024
Detection of variable stars in the open star clusters

Mr. Gyanankur J Bora (Nowgong College Nagaon, Assam), June-August 2023
Photometric variability study in the open star cluster NGC 2506

Mr. Raghav Wani (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Pune), May-June 2023
Photometric variability study in the open star cluster NGC 6709

Dr. Deepak (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangaluru), August-September 2022
Galactic archaeology through open star clusters

Mr. Sagar Malhotra (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Mohali), June-December 2022
Solar offset determination using recent open star clusters catalogues

Mr Arjit Shankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Tirupati), June-July 2022
Compiling catalogues of OB stars and determination of solar offset

Mr Swaroop Ramakant Avarsekar (National Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhubaneswar), June-July 2022
Compiling catalogues of Population I and Population II Cepheids and determination of solar offset

Ms S Abhirami Raghu (Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin), June 2022
Compiling catalogues of Giant molecular clouds and determination of solar offset

Ms Sonam Diki Bhutia (Nar Bahadur Bhandari Government College, Gangtok ), June 2022
Compiling catalogues of Pulsars and determination of solar offset

Ms. Pankhuri Agarwal (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai), December-March 2022
Variability study in the rich open cluster NGC 2506

Mr. Nandan Dey (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai), December-March 2022
Understanding star formation process in the Galaxy using photometric and kinematic data of open star clusters

Mr. Sagar Malhotra (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research Mohali), June-August 2021
Photometric variability study in the I band data of open star cluster NGC 559

Ms. Bhumika Taneja (Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi), June-July 2021
Search for variable stars in the I band Nainital Microlensing Survey data

Mr. Soumyadeep Kundu (Presidency University, Kolkata), June-July 2021
Search for variable stars in the R band Nainital Microlensing Survey data

Mr. Asish Philip (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai), January-April 2021
Studying metallicity distribution of the open star clusters to probe the Galactic structure

Mr. Arvind Dattatrey (ARIES, Nainital), March-May 2020
Photometric analysis of four newly discovered open clusters

Ms. Ancy Anna John (Pondicherry Central University), Feb-March 2020, Mar-Sep 2019, Aug-Nov 2018
Search of variable stars in the open star clusters NGC559 and NGC 1960

Mr. Raj Kishore Joshi (ARIES, Nainital), May-June 2019
Study of exasolar planets and their host stars

Ms. Khushboo Sharma (Punjab University), Aug-Nov 2018
Search for variable stars in the open clusters NGC 559

Mr. Jyoti Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Aug-Nov 2018
Extinction map of M31 using Classical Cepheids

Mr. Aurobinda Gosh (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhopal), May-July 2018
Reddening maps of Magellanic Clouds using Classical Cepheids

Ms. Ananya Bandopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Pune), May-June 2018
Metallicity Distribution of Open Star Clusters

Ms. Sreepriya V (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam), May-July 2017
Understanding Galactic structure through open star clusters

Mr. Alaxender Panchal (ARIES, Nainital), May-July 2017
Extinction map of Magellanic Clouds using Cepheid variables

Mr. Rishikesh Gokhale (Mumbai University), May-June 2016
Detection and study of Cepheids and other variable stars in M31

Mr. Auro Kumar Mohanty (National Institute of Technology-Rourkela), May-July 2014
Statistical analysis of SMC Cepheids

Mr. Robert Wilson Joute (St Edmund College Shillong), May-July 2014
Statistical analysis of LMC Cepheids

Mr. Rohit Nagori (IIST Thiruvananthapuram), January-April 2014
Statistical analysis of Galactic star clusters to understand Galactic structure

Ms. Prantika Bhomik (IIT Kharagpur), July 2013
Statistical analysis of Archival data on Cepheids

Mr. Jervis Ritesh Mendonca (University of Hyderabad), May-July 2012
Search for variable stars in Nainital Microlensing data

Mr. Telugu Vemishi (Vidhya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad), May-June 2011
Interstellar extinction towards open clusters and galactic structure

Mr. Gaurav Jaiswal (Banaras Hindu University), May-July 2010
Study of Cepheid variables in M31 – Extinction variation and period distribution

Ms. Farha Anjum (Goa University), June-July 2009
Detection of extra solar planets in the open star cluster NGC 6866