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Prashant PathakPhD (SOKENDAI University) | Email: ppathak[AT]iitk.ac.in
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| Assistant Professor, Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering
Research Interests:
Direct imaging and characterization of Exoplanets, Adaptive optics and wavefront control techniques, Ground and space-based instrumentation.
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Education
- Ph.D., The Graduate University for Advance Studies [SOKENDAI], 2017
- BS-MS, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research -Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2013
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Exoplanets with ELT-METIS I: Estimating the direct imaging exoplanet yield around stars within 6.5 parsecs, 2021, A&A, 653, A8.
Constraints on the nearby exoplanet epsilon Indi Ab from deep near- and mid-infrared imaging limits, 2021, A&A, 651, A89.
High contrast imaging at 10 microns, a search for exoplanets around: Eps Indi A, Eps Eri, Tau Ceti, Sirius A and Sirius B, 2021, A&A, 652, A121.
Imaging Low-Mass Planets Within alpha Centauri's Habitable Zone, 2021, Nature Communications, 12, 922.
High-accuracy short-term precipitable water-vapour operational forecast at the Very Large Telescope and perspectives for sky background forecast, 2020, MNRAS, 497, 4910.
METIS high contrast imaging: design and expected performance, 2020, JATIS, 6(3), 035005.
On-sky closed loop correction of atmospheric dispersion for high-contrast coronagraphy and astrometry, 2018, PASP, 130, 984.
SCExAO, an instrument with a dual purpose: perform cutting-edge science and develop new technologies, 2018, Proc. of SPIE, 10703, 1070359.
Laboratory and On-sky Validation of the Shaped Pupil Coronagraph’s Sensitivity to Low-order Aberrations With Active Wavefront Control, 2018 PASP, 130, 986.
A high precision technique to correct for residual atmospheric dispersion in high-contrast imaging systems, 2016, PASP, 128, 124404.
Artificial Incoherent Speckles Enable Precision Astrometry and Photometry in High-contrast Imaging, 2015, ApJ, 813, 24J.
First on-sky closed loop measurement and correction of atmospheric dispersion, 2016, Proc. of SPIE, 9909-56.
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PostDoc Fellow, University of Liege, Belgium (Oct. 2021 – Aug. 2023)
Engineering and Technology Research Fellow, European Southern Observatory (ESO), Germany (Feb. 2018 - May 2021)
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Office
6th floor, Engineering Science Building-2,
Department of Space, Planetary & Astronomical Sciences & Engineering,
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Office Phone:
Email: ppathak[AT]iitk.ac.in
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