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Nationality
  
Indian

Fields
  
Astrophysics

Residence
  
India

Name
  
Prajval Shastri

Doctoral advisor
  
Vijay Kapahi


Prajval Shastri Prajval Shastri ICTS


Institutions
  
Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Known for
  
Extragalactic Astronomy and Active Galactic Nuclei

Alma mater
  
Indian Institutes of Technology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Relativistically beamed jets and the blazar divide by prajval shastri


Prajval Shastri is an astrophysicist at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore and specializes in the area of phenomenology of active galaxies driven by supermassive blackholes using multi-wavelength observations ranging from radio to X-ray wavelengths.

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The fanaroff riley dichotomy in agn jets and their emission line regions by prajval shastri


Early Life & Education

Shastri was brought up in Mangalore and after her schooling she completed her B.Sc. in Physical Sciences from St. Agnes College Mangalore (University of Mysore). She then went on to pursue M.Sc. in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. She completed her Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India on the topic "Relativistic Beaming in Active Galactic Nuclei" in the year 1989 under the supervision of Vijay Kapahi.

Current Research

Shastri's current research specialization is the phenomenon of Active Galactic Nuclei. Her present research areas are:

  • AGN Emission-line Regions (Integrated Field Spectroscopic Imaging, WiFeS at Siding Spring)
  • X-ray Emission from AGN (XMM-Newton, Suzaku)
  • Jets in Radio-Quiet AGN (Very Long Baseline Interferometry, GMRT)
  • Hot Gaseous outflows in AGN (Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer)
  • Blazar Variability: WEBT monitoring campaigns (Vainu Bappu & Hanle Telescopes)
  • Professional Memberships

    Shastri holds memberships of the following organizations:

  • International Astronomical Union
  • Organising Committee, WG on Astrostatistics & Astroinformatics, International Astronomical Union
  • Organising Committee, Commission 40 (Radio Astronomy), International Astronomical Union
  • Astronomical Society of India
  • Indian Physics Association
  • List of Publications

    Shastri's complete list of publications can be found here. Some of her papers are

  • OVI Asymmetry and an Accelerated Outflow in an Obscured Seyfert: FUSE and HST STIS Spectroscopy of Markarian 533(2006, Astrophys. J. 646, 76; astro-ph/0603842)
  • When Less Is More: Are Radio Galaxies below the Fanaroff-Riley Break More Polarized on Parsec Scales?(2005, Astrophys. J. Lett, 632, L69; astro-ph/0509559)
  • Jets in Seyfert galaxies (2003, in Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy, eds.: Collin, Combes & Shlosman)
  • Seyferts & their Radio Morphology (2001, Astron. Astrophys. Trans., 20, 281)
  • Quasar X-ray Spectra Revisited (1993, Astrophys. J., 410, 29)
  • A Relativistically Beamed X-ray Component in Quasars? (1991, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 249, 640)
  • In the news

  • The Hindu - Loving each dot and smudge in the sky
  • TimeOut - Bangalore
  • References

    Prajval Shastri Wikipedia