Second Daksha Science Workshop, 2025

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

Workshop attendance is by invitation. Local hospitality will be provided to all participants.

Schedule

30th March

Session 1: Daksha Mission

• 09:30 – 10:00 Mission overview and status (Dipankar Bhattacharya)

• 10:00 – 10:30 Electromagnetic counterparts to GW sources (Rahul Kashyap)

Tea break 

Session 2: GRBs with Daksha

• 11:00 – 11:45 GRBs with Daksha: detection, rates, and spectroscopy (Santosh Vadawale)

• 11:45 – 12:15 GRB polarisation (Sujay Mate)

• 12:15 – 12:30 GRB localisation (PRL/IITB)

Lunch Break

Breakout Session 1: Hands-on

• 2:00 – 3:30 GRB search and spectroscopy 

• Tea break

• 4:00 – 5:30 GRB search and spectroscopy

Breakout Session 2: Discussions

• 2:00 – 3:30 Studying GRBs and EMGW with Daksha

• Tea Break

• 4:00 – 5:30 Modelling the background in LEO

31st March

Session 5: Solar System

• 09:30 – 10:00 An overview of Solar X-ray studies (Dipankar Banerjee)

• 10:00 – 10:30 Solar studies with Daksha

• 10:30 – 11:00 Spaceweather

Tea break

Session 6: Earth

• 11:30 – 12:00 Atmospheric Fluorescence studies

• 12:00 – 12:30 Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes

Lunch Break

Session 7: Multi-Wavelength Studies

• 2:00 – 2:30 Multi-wavelength studies of Pulsars

• 2:30 – 3:00 Multi-wavelength studies of Persistent sources and slow transients (Vikram Rana)

• 3:00 – 3:30 Discussion

Tea break

Session 8: University Involvement

• 4:00 – 4:30 Studying transients with small telescopes

• 4:30 – 5:00 Student projects with Daksha