Second Daksha Science Workshop, 2025

The Second Daksha Science Workshop was held at IUCAA, Pune on 30 and 31 March, 2025. 

Schedule

30th March

Session 1: Daksha Mission
Chair - Gulab Dewangan

• 09:30 - 09:40 Opening remarks by Director, IUCAA (R. Srianand)

• 09:40 – 10:10 Mission overview and status (Dipankar Bhattacharya)

• 10:10 – 10:40 Electromagnetic counterparts to GW sources (Rahul Kashyap)

Tea break 

Session 2: GRBs with Daksha
Chair - Santosh Vadawale

• 11:00 – 11:30 GRBs with Daksha: detection, rates, and spectroscopy (Varun Bhalerao)

• 11:30 – 12:00 GRB polarisation (Sujay Mate)

• 12:00 – 12:30 GRB localisation (Ashish Mondal, Ravi Kumar, Dhananjay Raman)

Lunch Break

Breakout Session 1: Hands-on

• 2:00 – 3:30 GRB search and spectroscopy (Gaurav Waratkar / Anuraag Arya)

• Tea break

• 4:00 – 5:00 GRB search and spectroscopy (Gaurav Waratkar / Anuraag Arya)

Breakout Session 2: Discussions

• 2:00 – 3:30 Studying GRBs and EMGW with Daksha (Santosh Vadawale)

• Tea Break

• 4:00 – 5:00 Modelling the background in LEO (Sujay Mate)

31st March

Session 5: Solar System
Chair - Durgesh Tripathi

• 09:30 – 10:15 An overview of Solar X-ray studies and spaceweather (Dipankar Banerjee)

• 10:15 – 10:45 Solar studies with Daksha (Mithun NPS)

• 10:45 – 11:00 Discussion

Tea break

Session 6: Earth
Chair - Varun Bhalerao

• 11:30 – 12:00 Multi-wavelength studies of persistent sources and slow transients (Vikram Rana)

• 12:00 – 12:30 Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (Ankush Bhaskar, online)

Lunch Break

Session 7: Multi-Wavelength Studies
Chair - Dipankar Bhattacharya

• 2:00 – 2:30 Multi-wavelength studies of Pulsars (Biswajit Paul, online)

• 2:30 – 3:00 Daksha data simulations and analysis demonstration (Utkarsh Pathak)

• 3:00 – 3:30 Discussion

Tea break

Session 8: University Involvement
Chair - Ranjeev Misra

• 4:00 – 4:30 Studying transients with small telescopes (Sudhanshu Barway, online)

• 4:30 – 5:00 Research projects with Daksha (Ajit Kembhavi)

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.

• Updated 2025 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.