Research Projects

CHronOS

Cosmic Hydrogen Observation and Simulation

A long-term effort to detect cosmic neutral hydrogen from the dark ages and cosmic dawn through the redshifted 21-cm signal — across simulation, instrumentation, theory and observation.

Dolphin

A generative model for spiral-galaxy light profiles

A generative neural network that produces realistic spiral-galaxy light distributions — an informative, empirical prior for strong-lens modelling in lenstronomy.

Dynamics in the Local Group

An international project mapping the mass distributions of Andromeda, the Milky Way and their satellites from the dynamics of the Local Group.

GAZE

General Astronomy Zoo Environment

A web-based annotation platform — in the spirit of Galaxy Zoo — for labelling radio AGN and the intracluster medium of their host clusters, feeding CASSA's machine-learning pipelines.

MIMIC

Mapping the Intracluster Medium in Chandra

An X-ray pipeline that turns Chandra archival data into intracluster-medium maps and detects radio minihalos, cold fronts and other edge structures in clusters of galaxies.

PrimaBERA

Primary Beam Effects of Radio Astronomy Antennas

Lightweight, analytical models of radio-telescope primary beams — the EIDOS software — for the VLA, MeerKAT and LOFAR.

RGC-1

Radio Galaxy Classifier

A semi-supervised deep-learning model that sorts radio-loud AGN by morphology — introducing the FIRST-2060 catalogue and a four-class classifier for VLA images.

RGC-2

Radio Galaxy Classifier

The successor to RGC-1 — a much larger labelled dataset and a multimodal model that pushes radio-AGN classification well beyond the first release.

Sparkler

Resolved SED fitting of the Sparkler galaxy

JWST/NIRSpec IFU spectroscopy of the gravitationally lensed Sparkler galaxy (z = 1.4) — testing whether its bright 'sparkles' are ancient globular clusters and tracing the galaxy's detailed star-formation history.

START

Starting the Transient Array Radio Telescope

CASSA's project to build, install and commission TART on the IUB rooftop — Bangladesh's first radio telescope, a 24-element aperture-synthesis array.