Gravity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (GrAC)

We as a "gravity and astrophysics group" work on various aspects of general theory of relativity. Our main focus areas are black hole thermodynamics and its microscopic origin, black hole perturbations; early and late time cosmology specifically focusing on inflation, bounce in the early universe cosmology, modeling the dark matter and dark energy; astrophysical flows around compact objects, more precisely on transonic flows around compact objects, magneto-hydrodynamic astrophysical flows and modeling of accretion-ejection processes; application of gauge gravity duality. More detail will be found in our group web page.

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Group Coordinator


Santabrata Das
Professor
0361-2582726
sbdas [at] iitg.ac.in

Faculty Members

Sayan Chakrabarti
Associate Professor

Santabrata Das
Professor

Debaprasad Maity
Associate Professor

Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
Associate Professor

Malay Kumar Nandy
Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Sovan Sau

Dr. Suvikranth Gera

Dr. Sudip Karan

Dr. Pradeepkumar Yadav

Associated Research Scholars

RAJESH KARMAKAR

MONU SINGH

BHARGABI SAHA

SOURAV PAL

BANASHREE BAISHYA

GARGI SEN

MUHAMMED SHAFEEQUE

SAMIK MITRA

SARASWATI DEVI

SESHADRI MAJUMDER

AKHIL UNIYAL

AYAN CHAKRABORTY

CAMELIA JANA

DIPANKAR BARMAN

RAJESH MONDAL

AMIT KUMAR

HRISIKESH THAKUR

SUBHANKAR PATRA

SUBHASIS MAITI

HARPREET SINGH

SREETAMA DAS CHOUDHURY

VISHAL

Past Research Scholars

DR. BIPLOB SARKAR

DR. MD. RAMIZ AKTAR

DR. ARUN MATHEW

DR. INDU KALPA DIHINGIA

DR. WADBOR WAHLANG

DR. KRISHNAKANTA BHATTACHARYA

DR. MOUSUMI MAITRA

DR. SUROJIT DALUI

DR. RIAJUL HAQUE

DR. SUMIT DEY

Dr. Ashmita Das
[ ]

Dr. Tapobroto Bhanja
[ Jan-20 ]

Dr. Subhajit Barman
[ December, 2022 ]

Dr. Nafisa Aftab
[ Oct, 2021 ]

Dr. Gopal Chandra Sardar
[ Jan, 2022 ]

Dr. Aneesha Unnikrishnan
[ Jan, 2024 ]

Recent Publication

Journals

  • I. K. Dihingia, S. Das, D. Maity and S. Chakrabarti"Limitations of the pseudo-Newtonian approach in studying the accretion flow around a Kerr black hole", Phys. Rev. D vol.98, no. , pp.083004-1-083004-13 , [2018]

  • S. Airen, F. Capozzi, S. Chakraborty, B. Dasgupta, G. Raffelt and T. Stirner"Normal-mode Analysis for Collective Neutrino Oscillations", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol.1812, no. , pp.19, [2018]

  • S. Chakraborty"Supernova neutrinos: Flavor conversion independent of their mass", Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy vol.39, no. , pp. , [2018]

  • Wadbor Wahlang, Piyush A. Jeena, Sayan Chakrabarti"Quasinormal modes of scalar and Dirac perturbations of Bardeen de-Sitter black holes ", International Journal of Modern Physics D vol.26, no.14, pp.1750160, [2017]

  • I. K. Dihingia, S. Das, D. Maity and S. Chakrabarti"Limitations of the pseudo-Newtonian approach in studying the accretion flow around a Kerr black hole", Phys. Rev. D vol.98, no. , pp.083004-1-083004-13 , [2018]

  • Santabrata Das and Biplob Sarkar"Standing shocks in magnetized advection accretion flows onto a rotating black hole", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society vol.480, no.3, pp. 3446-3456 , [2018]

  • Indu Kalpa Dihingia, Santabrata Das and Samir Mandal."Properties of two-temperature dissipative accretion flow around black holes", Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society vol.475, no.2, pp.2164, [2018]

  • Aktar, Ramiz; Das, Santabrata; Nandi, Anuj; Sreehari, H."Advective accretion flow properties around rotating black holes - application to GRO J1655-40", Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy vol.39, no.1, pp.8, [2018]

  • Biplob Sarkar, Santabrata Das"Standing shocks in magnetized dissipative accretion flow around black holes", Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy vol.39, no.1, pp.12, [2018]

  • Biplob Sarkar, Santabrata das and Samir Mandal"Properties of magnetically supported dissipative accretion flow around black holes with cooling effects", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society vol.473, no.2, pp.2415, [2018]

  • Aktar, Ramiz; Das, Santabrata; Nandi, Anuj; Sreehari, H."Estimation of mass outflow rates from dissipative accretion disc around rotating black holes", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society vol.471, no.4, pp.4806, [2017]

  • I. K. Dihingia, S. Das, D. Maity and S. Chakrabarti"Limitations of the pseudo-Newtonian approach in studying the accretion flow around a Kerr black hole", Phys. Rev. D vol.98, no. , pp.083004-1-083004-13 , [2018]

  • D. Maity and P. Saha"Connecting CMB anisotropy and cold dark matter phenomenology via reheating", Phys. Rev. D vol.98, no.10, pp.103525-1-103525-18, [2018]

  • D. Maity and P. Saha"Studying G-axion Inflation model in light of PLANCK", JCAP vol.1807, no., pp.65, [2018]

  • M. Maitra, D. Maity and B. R. Majhi"Symmetries near a generic charged null surface and associated algebra: an off-shell analysis", Phys. Rev. D vol.97, no.12, pp.124065-1-124065-11, [2018]

  • Srijit Bhattacharjee, Debaprasad Maity, Rupak Mukherjee "Constraining scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Inflation by Reheating, Unitarity and PLANCK", Physics Review D vol.95, no.23514, pp. , [2017]

  • Vishal Baibhav, Debaprasad Maity "Boson Stars in Higher Derivative Gravity", Physics Review D vol.95, no.24027, pp. , [2017]

  • M. Maitra, D. Maity and B. R. Majhi"Symmetries near a generic charged null surface and associated algebra: an off-shell analysis", Phys. Rev. D vol.97, no.12, pp.124065-1-124065-11, [2018]

  • Krishnakanta Bhattacharya and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Noncommutative Heisenberg algebra in the neighbourhood of a generic null surface", Nucl. Phys. B vol.934, no., pp.557, [2018]

  • Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Ashmita Das and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Noether and Abbott-Deser-Tekin conserved quantities in scalar-tensor theory of gravity both in Jordan and Einstein frames", Phys. Rev. D vol.97, no.12, pp.124013, [2018]

  • Nilanjandev Bhaumik, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi "Interior volume of (1+D) dimensional Schwarzschild black hole", Int.J.Mod.Phys. A vol.33, no.2, pp.1850011, [2018]

  • Ananya Adhikari, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Chandramouli Chowdhury, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Fluctuation-dissipation relation in accelerated frames", Phys. Rev. D vol.97, no.4, pp.45003, [2018]

  • Ashish Bakshi, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta"Gravitational surface Hamiltonian and entropy quantization", Phys. Lett. B vol.765, no. , pp.334, [2017]

  • Rabin Banerjee, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta"Thermogeometric phase transition in a unified framework", Phys. Lett. B vol.767, no. , pp.25, [2017]

  • Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Noncomutativity in near horizon symmetries in gravity", Phys. Rev. D vol.95, no.4, pp.44020, [2017]

  • Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Fresh look at the Scalar-Tensor theory of gravity in Jordan and Einstein frames from undiscussed standpoints", Phys. Rev. D vol.95, no.6, pp.64026, [2017]

  • Avik Paul, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi "Hawking evaporation cascade in presence of back reaction effect", Int.J.Mod.Phys. A vol.32, no.16, pp.1750088, [2017]

  • Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Thermogeometric description of the van der Waals like phase transition in AdS black holes", Phys.Rev. D vol.95, no.10, pp.104024, [2017]

  • Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta"Entropy corresponding to the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole", Phys. Lett. B vol.770, no. , pp.314, [2017]

  • Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta"P-V criticality of AdS black holes in a general framework ", Phys. Lett. B vol.773, no. , pp.203, [2017]

  • Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta "van der Waals criticality in AdS black holes: a phenomenological study", Phys. Rev. D vol.96, no.8, pp.84037, [2017]

  • Gaurav Yadav, Baby Komal, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi"Rainbow Rindler metric and Unruh effect ", Int.J.Mod.Phys. A vol.32, no.33, pp.1750196, [2017]

Conferences

Text book/Book chapters