Educational Background:
M.Sc.: IIT Kanpur (1981)
Ph.D.: University of Chicago (1985)
Professional Background:
Tolman Fellow: California Institute of Technology, 1985-1987
Post Doctoral Fellow: ICTP, Trieste, Italy (1987-1988)
Faculty at TIFR: (1989-1996)
Faculty at SNBNCBS (1996- present)
Important awards and fellowship of academies:
INSA Young Scientist: 1990
Regular associate of ICTP: 1990-1997
Anil Bose Memorial Award: 1994
Senior Research Associate (National Academy of Science) at NASA/GSFC: 1994-1995
Senior Associate of ICTP: 2003-present
Main area of work
Accretion processes around black holes
Spectral and Temporal properties of emitted radiations from black holes
Origin of bio-molecules during star formation
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- Planetary Rings
- Ionospheric plasma
Significant recent publications:
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S.
Das, I. Chattopadhyay and S.K. Chakrabarti, 2001, Standing shocks
around black holes – An analytical study, Astrophysical Journal, 557,
983
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S.K.
Chakrabarti, K. Acharyya and D. Molteni, 2004, The effect of cooling on
time dependent behaviour of accretion flows around black holes,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 421, 1
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S.K.
Chakrabarti and S. Das, 2004, Properties of accretion shock waves in
viscous flows around black holes, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 349, 649
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S.K. Chakrabarti et. al, 2005, SS 433: results of a recent multi-wavelength campaign, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 362, 957
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S.K. Chakrabarti, and S. Mandal, 2006, The Spectral Properties of
Shocked Two-Component Accretion Flows in the Presence of Synchrotron
Emission, Astrophysical Journal., 642, 49
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