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Dr. Main Pal

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Assistant Professor Department of Physics mainpal@svc.ac.in


Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India)
  • M.Sc. (Choudhary Charan Singh University Campus, Meerut, India)
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Areas of Specialization

  • Multi-wavelength Astronomy : broad-band spectral and timing study of accreting sources.
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Administrative roles/ responsibilities

  • Department Library Incharge, 2023
  • Member of Lab maintenance, 2023
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Courses Taught

  • Electrical Circuit Analysis
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1. Spectral States of OJ 287 blazar from Multi-wavelength Observations with AstroSat Singh, K.P.plus Main Pal, et al 2022, I.F.-5.4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14978 )


2. Complex optical/UV and X-ray variability in Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 509 Neeraj Kumari, Main Pal, et al 2021, I.F.-5.7 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11994)


3. Spectro-Timing Analysis of a highly variable narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4748 with AstroSat and XMM-Newton Main Pal, et al 2021, I.F.-1.3 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04546)


4. Blazar OJ 287 After First VHE Activity: Tracking the Re-emergence of the HBL like Component in 2020P. Kushwaha, Main Pal, N. Kalita, N. Kumari et al. 2021, I.F 5.7 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14431)


5. Strong Soft X-ray Excess in 2015 XMM-Newton Observation of BL--Lac OJ~287 Main Pal & Pankaj Kushwaha et al 2020 , I.F.-5.8 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02730)


6. UV to X-ray Comptonization delay in Mrk 493 Adegoke, Gulab C. Dewangan, P. Pawar & Main Pal, I.F.-8.4 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08056)


7. The ever-surprising blazar OJ 287: multi-wavelength study and appearance of a new component in X-rays Kushwaha, P., A. C. Gupta, W., Paul, J., Main Pal & others, I.F.5.4(https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10213)


8. Correlated X-ray/UV/optical emission and short term variability in a Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 Main Pal & Sachindra Naik, MNRAS, 474, 5351-5162 (2018), (https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11194)


9. Complex Optical/UV and X-ray variability of Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419–577 Main Pal, Gulab C. Dewangan, Ajit K. Kembhavi, Ranjeev Misra & S. Naik, MNRAS, 473, 3584-3597, 2018 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01944)


10. AstroSat View of Blazar OJ 287: A Complete Evolutionary cycle of HBL Component from End-Phase to Disappearance and Re-emergence Kushwaha, P.K., Singh K. P., A. Sinha, Main Pal et al, ICRC 2022, PoS, 395.(https://inspirehep.net/literature/1890574)


11. Short-term variabilities in X-ray/Optical/UV emission from Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 Sachindra Naik, Main Pal & Neeraj Kumari, International BINA conference proceeding, Vol. 88, pp. 143-151, 2019.(https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019BSRSL..88..143N/abstract)


12. Soft X-ray excess emission in NLS1 galaxies Main Pal, Proceeding of Science, 2018, PoS(NLS1-2018)033, Trieste, Italy-2018 (https://pos.sissa.it/328/033/pdf)


13. The correlated response of the narrow FeK� emission line to the primary continuum changes in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2992 R. Ghosh, Main Pal, Research Notes of the AAS, Vol. 5, 35, 2021.(https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abe863/meta)


14. A Time Resolved View of the X-Ray Spectral Variability of the Seyfert-1 Galaxy ESO 511-G030 Main Pal, Research Notes of the AAS, 5, 34, 2021 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021RNAAS...5...34P/abstract)


15. The distance of the narrow FeKalpha emitting region for a sample of Compton thin type-II active galactic nuclei Main Pal; RNAAS, 5, 65, 2021. (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021RNAAS...5...65P/abstract)


  • Visiting Faculty Associate award, 2023-2026, at IUCAA, Pune
  • Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship award (Higher),2018-2021, UGC, Government of India
  • Post-doctoral fellowship award- 2017, Nanjing University, China (not availed)
  • Post-doctoral fellowship award-2018 in University of Science and Technology of China, China, 2018, (Not availed).
  • Post-doctoral fellowship award-2018 in Shandong University, Weihai, China, 2018, (Not availed).
  • All India Rank 2 in JEST examination, 2010
  • All India Rank 78 and 87 in GATE examination, in 2010 and 2007, respectively
  • CSIR NET/JRF 2007 for Junior/senior Research Fellow
  • First rank in university entrance exam for M.Sc physics
  • COSPAR Fellow, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain and received ∼ 3.5 lac INR as stipend (2014)
  • Received travel grant To and Fro for ESAC, Spain from ISRO, India
  • 800 US dollar for travel (2013) to Cospar Capacity Building workshop held in Xuyi, China
  • Travel grant (100 Euro) for COSPAR Meeting in Mysore, India (2012)

Projects

1. Projects completed at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, 2017-2018, working as a PDF fellow


2. Project completed at the Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 2018-2021, working as the Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellow .