Akshara Viswanathan
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Akshara Viswanathan
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PhD researcher in Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, NL|
Observational astronomer investigating baby Milky Way's shenanigan |🇮🇳🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱|
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So many emotions all at once!!! On December 6, I became a Doctor in Astrophysics and I am so very grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey since the 11-year-old me wanted to get a PhD in 'astro-stuff'.
Here is a digital copy of my thesis: doi.org/10.33612/dis...
January 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Reposted by Akshara Viswanathan
Paper day! Here is our attempt to summarize the exciting revolution Gaia has brought to the study of stellar streams around the Milky Way, as a part of a special issue of New Astronomy Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2405.19410

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May 31, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Celebrating Gaia's 10th birthday with some cake 😍 loved making the Milky Way map edible❤️✨ #ESAGaia
December 21, 2023 at 10:50 AM
Very happy to share my new paper on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2309.06137 releasing a catalogue of spectroscopic metallicities of VMP stars using the amazing Gaia DR3 RVS spectra. Did you know that there exists a lot of archival VMP spectra out there with no published parameters?
Gaia's brightest very metal-poor (VMP) stars: A metallicity...
Context. Gaia DR3 has offered the scientific community a remarkable dataset of approximately one million spectra acquired with the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) in the Calcium II triplet...
arxiv.org
September 19, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Successful south pole lunar landing for ISRO 😍
Congratulations to everyone who made it possible, it's such a proud moment for India🎉
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chandr...
Chandrayaan 3 Landing Live: ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander makes successful soft-landing on Moon
Chandrayaan 3 Moon Landing: Chandrayaan-3, former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair delved into how this mission is significant for overall spacefaring for India and also about the last-minute manoeuvres....
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
August 23, 2023 at 1:13 PM