Raghunathan Srianand Explained

Raghunathan Srianand
Birth Date:	1 February 1969
Birth Place:	India
Nationality:	Indian
Known For:	Studies on redshift evolution on the cosmic microwave background radiation

Raghunathan Srianand (born February 1, 1969) is an Indian cosmologist, astrophysicist and a scientist at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).^[1] Known for his research on redshift evolution on the cosmic microwave background radiation,^[2] Srianand is a member of the International Astronomical Union^[3] and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.^[4]

Focusing his work on observational and theoretical astrophysics, he is known to have assisted in widening the understanding of the bounds on the variation of fundamental constants using the absorption line spectra of quasars.^[5] High-z proto-galaxies, time and space variation of fundamental constants, redshift evolution of the CMB temperature and formation and evolution of IGM have been some of the areas of his research.^[6] His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles^[7] and Google Scholar, an online article repository of scientific articles, has listed 306 of them.^[8] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2008.^[9]

Selected bibliography

• S. Muzahid, Jane C. Charlton, Daisuke Nagai, Joop Schaye, R. Srianand . Discovery of an HI-rich Gas Reservoir in the Outskirts of SZ-effect Selected Clusters . The Astrophysical Journal . 2017 . 846 . 1 . L8 . 10.3847/2041-8213/aa8559. 1708.02600. 2017ApJ...846L...8M. 118943294 . free .
• R. Dutta, R. Srianand, Neeraj Gupta, Ravi Joshi . H i 21-cm absorption from z ∼ 0.35 strong Mg ii absorbers . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 2017 . 468 . 1 . 1029–1037 . 10.1093/mnras/stx538. free . 1703.00457. 2017MNRAS.468.1029D. 119069958 .
• M. Vivek, R. Srianand, N. Gupta . Transient C IV Broad Absorption Lines in radio detected QSOs . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 2015 . 455 . 1 . 136–149 . 10.1093/mnras/stv2240. free . 1509.08471. 2016MNRAS.455..136V. 118700592 .

See also

• Redshift-space distortions

External links

• Focus: A Constant Worthy of the Name . 2017-11-01 . Physics . 13 . 2017-11-01. Monroe . Don .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Academic Members . 2017-11-01 . Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics . 2017-11-01 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20100611140022/http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/Research.html#Faculty . 2010-06-11 .
2. Web site: Brief Profile of the Awardee . 2017-10-21 . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2017-10-21.
3. Web site: Raghunathan Srianand on IAU . 2017-11-01 . International Astronomical Union . 2017-11-01.
4. Web site: Srianand on PI . 2017-11-01 . Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics . 2017-11-01.
5. Web site: Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners . 2017-10-17 . Council of Scientific and Industrial Research . 2017-10-17.
6. Web site: Research at IUCAA . 2017-11-01 . Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics . 2017-11-01 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20100611140022/http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/Research.html . 2010-06-11 .
7. Web site: On ResearchGate . 2017-10-17 . 2017-10-17.
8. Web site: On Google Scholar . 2017-10-31 . Google Scholar . 2017-10-31.
9. Web site: View Bhatnagar Awardees . 2017-11-11 . Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize . 2017-11-11.