Dr. Sukanta Deb
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : Department of Physics and Astrophysics (University of Delhi)Research Interests:
Numerical analysis , Computer Programming (Python, C, C++, IDL , Fortran and R), Astronomical Photometry & Spectroscopy, Light curve modelling in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Monte-Carlo Methods & Simulations, Quantum Variational Monte Carlo Techniques, Automated data analysis, Bayesian Data Analysis, Machine Learning Techniques, Astronomy with Virtual Observatories (VO)Date of Joining : Oct 16, 2015
Phone: 9810362087
Email: sukanta.deb@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Career Profile/Services:
1. Assistant Professor (Permanent) Department of Physics, Cotton University (2015-)
2. Assistant Professor (Adhoc) Department of Physics, Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) (2011-2015)
3. Lecturer (Adhoc) Department of Physics, Kirori Mal College (University of Delhi) (2005-2006)
4. Lecturer (Adhoc) Department of Physics, Kalindi College (University of Delhi) (2004-2005)
Activities/assignments in the University:
1. Coordinator, Space and Astronomy Research Centre (SARC), Cotton University (2017-)
2. Nodal Officer, Anti Ragging Committee (2021-)
Research Projects
| Sl. No. | Principal Investigator | Co Principal Investigator | Title of the Project | Period | Sponsoring Agency | Sanctioned Amount | Status |
| 1 | Dr. Sukanta Deb | NIL | “Analysis of Light Curves of Variable Stars” under Fast Track Scheme for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences | 2014- 2017 | SERB, DST (Govt. of India) | Rs. 4,80,000 | Completed |
| 2 | Dr. Sukanta Deb Dr. Subhash Kumar Dr. Sharanjit Kaur | “Astronomy using Archival Data” | 2013- 2014 | DU Innovation Project (ANDC-203), University of Delhi | Rs. 4,50,000 | Completed | |
| 3 | Dr. Sukanta Deb | NIL | “Variable Stars as Astrophysical Laboratories” | 2018- 2021 | CSIR, Govt. of India | Rs. 8,87,667 (First Installment 2018-2019) | Ongoing |
Research Projects
| Sl. No | Name of the Project | Name of the Principal Investigator(PI) | Name of the Co-PI | Name of the Funding Agency | Type (Government/Non-Government) | Year | Funds Sanctioned (INR in lakhs) | Duration of the Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Variable Stars as Astrophysical Laboratories Status: Ongoing |
Dr. Sukanta Deb | CSIR | Government | 2018 | 20.5024 | 3 years |
Research paper publications till 2021
1. Light Curve analysis of variable stars using Fourier Coefficients and Principal component analysis Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb and Harinder P. Singh, 2009, A&A, 507, 1729
2. Physical parameters of the Small Magellanic Cloud RR Lyrae stars and the distance scale Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb and Harinder P. Singh, 2010, MNRAS, 402, 691
3. Photometry of the d Scuti star HD 40372 Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb, S. K. Tiwari, Harinder P. Singh, T. R. Seshadri and U. S. Chaubey,2009, BASI, 37, 109
4. A CCD photometric study of the late type contact binary EK Comae Berenices Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb, Harinder P. Singh, T. R. Seshadri and Ranjan Gupta, 2010, New Astronomy, 15, 662
5. A CCD photometric study of the newly discovered contact binary ASAS 134738+0410.1 Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb, Harinder P. Singh, T. R. Seshadri & Ranjan Gupta, 2010, BASI, 38, 77
6. Physical parameters of 62 eclipsing binary stars using the All Sky Automated Survey-3 data-I Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb, Harinder P. Singh, 2011, MNRAS, 412, 1787
7. Physical parameters of eclipsing binary stars using the ASAS-3 data Journal-Ref: Harinder P. Singh, Sukanta Deb, 2011, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (ASPC), 448, 937
8. Chemical and structural analysis of the Large Magellanic Cloud using the fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb and Harinder P. Singh, 2014, MNRAS, 438, 2440
9. Variational Monte Carlo Technique: Ground State Energies of Quantum Mechanical Systems Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb, 2014, Resonance, 19, 713
10. Morphology and metallicity of the Small Magellanic Cloud using RRab stars Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb; Harinder P. Singh; Subhash Kumar; Shashi M. Kanbur, MNRAS, 449(3), 2768, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv358
11. Light curve modeling of eclipsing binaries towards the constellation of Carina Journal-Ref: Aniruddha Dey, Sukanta Deb and Subhash Kumar et al., DU Journal of Undergraduate Research and Innovation, 2015, volume 1, Issue 1, pp 60-78
12. Adoption and Evolution of FOSS: Key Factors in the Development of the Apache Web Server Journal-Ref: Ranjan Kumar, Subhash Kumar and Sukanta Deb,“Recent Advances in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science”, 2016, pp 362-370
13. Geometry of the Large Magellanic Cloud using classical Cepheid Multi-wavelength Photometry Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb; Chow-Choong Ngeow; Shashi M. Kanbur; Harinder P. Singh; Daniel Wysocki; Subhash Kumar, 2018, MNRAS, 478, 2526
14. Morphology of the Small Magellanic Cloud Using Multiwavelength Photometry of Classical
Cepheids Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb; Kerdaris Kurbah; Harinder P. Singh; Shashi M. Kanbur; Chow-
Choong Ngeow; Biman J. Medhi ; Subhash Kumar, 2019, MNRAS, 489, 3725
15. Optimal Softening for Gravitational Force Calculations in N-Body Dynamics
Journal-Ref:Hirakjyoti Das; Sukanta Deb; Amiya Baruah, 2021, ApJ, 911, 83
16. An MCMC approach to the three-dimensional structure of the MilkyWay bulge using OGLE-
IV Delta Scuti stars Journal-Ref: Mami Deka; Sukanta Deb; Kerdaris Kurbah, 2022, MNRAS, 514, 3984
17. Ensemble-based Unsupervised Machine Learning Method for Membership Determination of
Open Clusters using Mahalanobis Distance Journal-Ref: Sukanta Deb; Amiya Baruah; Subhash Kumar, 2022, MNRAS, 515, 4685
18. Period-Colour and Amplitude-Colour relations for OGLE- Scuti stars in the Galactic Bulge
and LMC Journal-Ref: Mami Deka; Shashi M. Kanbur; Sukanta Deb; Susmita Das; Kerdaris Kurbah;
Earl P. Bellinger; Anupam Bhardwaj, 2022, MNRAS, 517, 2251
19. A multiphase study of theoretical and observed light curves of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds
Journal-Ref: Kerdaris Kurbah, Sukanta Deb, Shashi M Kanbur, Susmita Das, Mami Deka,
Anupam Bhardwaj, Hugh Riley Randall, Selim Kalici, 2023, MNRAS, 521, 6034
20. Geometry of the LMC based on multiphase analysis of multiwavelength Cepheid light
curves using OGLE-IV and Gaia DR3 data
Journal-Ref: Gautam Bhuyan, Sukanta Deb, Shashi M Kanbur, Earl P Bellinger, Mami
Deka, Anupam Bhardwaj, 2024, MNRAS, 527, 8671
21. Bridging theory and observations in stellar pulsations: the impact of convection and metallicity
on the instability strips of classical and type-II cepheids
Journal-Ref: Mami Deka, Earl P Bellinger, Shashi M Kanbur, Sukanta Deb, Anupam Bhardwaj,
Hugh Riley Randall, Selim Kalici, Susmita Das, 2024, MNRAS, 530, 5099
22. A statistical approach to polarimetric and photometric investigation of the intermediate-age
open cluster NGC 1912
Journal-Ref: Samrat Biswas, Biman J. Medhi, Sushmita Deb, Sukanta Deb, H.S. Das and
G.I. Perren, 2024, MNRAS, 532, 1241
Research Scholars
| Sl. No | Name | Research Topic | Roll No |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kerdaris Kurbah (CSIR NET: JRF) | Leveraging Variable stars in Modern Astronomy | |
| 2 | Mami Deka (CSIR NET), Thesis Defended on Sep 09, 2024 | Astronomy and Astrophysics (Thesis Title: Variable Stars as Astrophysical Laboratories) | PHY 1991009 |
| 3 | Gautam Bhuyan ( DST Inspire Fellow) | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmology |
Other Information
Invited Lecture:
1. Invited as a speaker for “Astronomical Telescope Making Workshop” at Kendriya Vidyalaya, IIT Guwahati, organized by Vigyan Prasar (DST), Govt. of India on April 19, 2018
2. Invited as a speaker person for a IUCAA-sponsored workshop on “Astrophysical Data Analysis”, organized by the Department of Physics, Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, during March 21-23, 2016
3. Invited as a resource person for a IUCAA-sponsored workshop on “Workshop on Astronomical Data Analysis”, organized by the Department of Physics, Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat, Assam during March 17-19, 2016
4. Invited as a speaker for “Astronomical Telescope Making Workshop at Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala.”, jointly organized by Vigyan Prasar (DST), Govt. of India, ARIES (Nainital) and IUCAA (Pune) during October 5 - 16, 2015
5. Invited as a resource person to teach Scilab programming language for the physics undergraduate students of the University Delhi through hands-on session in the “Summer Program” organized by the Department of Physics & Astrophysics during June 29 – July 22, 2015. The lecture was dedicated to problem solving and visualizing various algorithms of numerical analysis through animation
6. Invited as a speaker and a resource person for “Workshop on Variability of Astronomical Sources”, organized by St. Thomas College, Thiruvalla, Kerala during January 22-24, 2014
7. Invited as a resource person for a workshop on “Astrophysical Observations and Data Analysis”, organized by the Department of Physics, Tezpur University (Central University, Assam) during June 5-7, 2012
8. Invited as a resource person for “IUCAA Introductory workshop on Astronomy & Astrophysics”, organized by the Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh during November 19-23, 2009
9. Invited as a speaker at “International workshop: Earth and the Sky, Astrophotography and Image Processing”, organized by the Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi during October 3-6, 2008
Association with Professional Bodies:
1. IUCAA Visiting Associate (Since 2016)
2. Lifetime Member of Physics Association of Northeast (PANE)