Designation: Scientist-D
Research Area: Active galaxy, Supermassive black holes, multi-wavelength astronomy
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• Scientist-D (Jan 2024 - )
  • Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational SciencES (ARIES), India 
• Scientist-C (Dec 2020 - Dec 2023)
  • Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational SciencES (ARIES), India 
• Visiting Researcher (Dec 2020 - )
  • Finnish Center for Astronomy with ESO, Turku, Finland
• Independent postdoctoral researcher (2018 - 2020)
  • Finnish Center for Astronomy with ESO, Turku, Finland
  • Host/collaborator: Prof. Jari Kotilainen
• Postdoctoral research associate (2017 - 2018)
  • Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
  • Mentor/collaborator: Prof. Jong-Hak Woo
• Postdoctoral researcher (2016 - 2017)
  • Indian Institute of Astrophysics
  • Mentor/collaborator: Prof. C. S. Stalin
• Ph.D. in relativistic astrophysics (2012 - 2015)
  • Observatoire De La Cote D`Azur, Nice, France/Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (IRAP-EMJD)
  • Thesis Title: Differential interferometry of the Broad Line Region of Quasars
  • Supervisor: Dr. Romain Petrov, Observatoire De La Cote D`Azur, Nice, France

Awards & Honours:

• NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Awards - 2022
• AAS and IOP Publishing - Top Cited Author Award 2020

Journal referee:

• Nature, Nature Astronomy, ApJS, MNRAS, PASA, JOAA

• AGN (accretion & jet mechanism, Broad emission & absorption lines, and torus structure & evolution, changing-look AGNs)
• Supermassive black hole mass measurement, evolution, and growth history
• Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs)
• High angular resolution Optical and IR interferometry, multi-band Photometry, Spectroscopy, and Polarimetry.
• Multi-wavelength astronomy

      (Selected first-authored publication) 

1. Rakshit, Suvendu, Schramm, Malte, et al.; "TXS 1206 + 549: a new γ-ray-detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy at redshift 1.34?", 2021MNRAS.504L..22R 

2. Rakshit, Suvendu, Stalin, C. S. et al.,; "Spectral properties of quasars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14: The catalog",  2020ApJS..249...17R

3. Rakshit, Suvendu; Woo, Jong-Hak, et al.,: ''The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. II. BLR Size and Black Hole Mass of Two AGNs'', 2019ApJ...886...93R

4. Suvendu Rakshit and Jong-Hak Woo: "A Census of Ionized Gas Outflows in Type 1 AGNs: Gas Outflows in AGNs. V.", 2018, ApJ, 865, 5

5. Suvendu Rakshit and C. S. Stalin:  ''Optical variability of Narrow and Broad-line Seyfert 1 galaxies'', 2017, ApJ, 842, 96

6. Suvendu Rakshit, C.S. Stalin, et al.,: ''A catalog of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 12'', 2017, ApJS, 229, 39

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