Workshop 2024

About

The Daksha core team conducted the first Daksha Science Workshop at ASI 2024 - the 42nd meeting of the Astronomical Society of India at Bengaluru on 31st January 2024. 85 participants were selected for the workshop from a larger number of applicants. 

The announcement can be found at the ASI workshop page. Other material for the workshop is shared on this page.

Schedule and slides

You can click on the topics to download slides where available.

Session 1: Introduction

• Astrophysics with ISRO missions (Dr. Kasturirangan) talk cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances

• Current and future space science missions (Prof. Anil Bhardwaj)

• LIGO-India and Multi-messenger Astrophysics (Prof. Tarun Souradeep)

• Daksha – Indicative collaboration opportunities (Varun Bhalerao)

Session 2: Daksha Science

• Daksha – current status (Santosh Vadawale) 

• Daksha science (Varun Bhalerao)

• GRBs: Timing, Spectroscopy, and Polarisation (Suman Bala & Sujay Mate)

Session 3: Daksha Science

• Atmospheric X-ray fluorescence (Shyama Narendranath) 

• Accreting X-ray Pulsars (Kinjal Roy)

• Solar studies with Daksha (Mithun NPS)

• Demonstration: Daksha Data Simulator (Gaurav Waratkar)

Session 4: Discussion

• Moderated discussion on science opportunities with Daksha, and synergies with other telescopes (Moderator: Prof. Ajit Kembhavi)

• Panelists: Varun Bhalerao, Santosh Vadawale, Vikram Rana, Gulab Dewangan

Other resources

• You can look at the refereed publications on the dedicated page.

• Response files can be downloaded from here.

• Sample data is available in this folder.

• Data analysis notebooks can be downloaded from here. If you are new to jupyter, you can look at various tutorials online like this or this.