Intro

Hi, This is Nabanita Das (pronounced as: Naw-bo-nee-tha Dha-sh). I am a second year graduate student at Georgia State University. I did my Bachelors' and Masters' degree in physics from Presidency University, Kolkata in India. Currently, I work under the advisement of Prof. Misty Bentz. My current research is mass measurements of supermassive black holes in nearby active galaxies.

Apart from astronomy, I spend a lot of my time in cooking and photography. I love to explore new cuisines and try to come up with fusion and quick recipes (read, make a mess in my kitchen). I am a huge summer person and love to take walks when it's bright outside. Below is a photo of Atlanta on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Research

My current research involves creating dynamical models of stars in the nucleus of a nearby Seyfert galaxies, in order to finally estimate a mass of the central supermassive black hole. I am using the K-band spatially resolved spectra from SINFONI in the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to extract the stellar kinematics. I create dynamical models using FORSTAND, which is an open-source code and a part of the AGAMA library.

Teaching

I have been teaching introductory astronomy labs, both sections (1. Astronomy of Solar System and 2. Stellar and Galactic Astronomy) at Georgia State University since 2022. Please find the all the GSU intro astronomy labs here.

Contact

Office:
1 Park Place
#707
Atlanta, GA 30303

Email:
ndas5@gsu.edu

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