Avinash Kumar

PhD Candidate. IA-FORTH, GR.

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232 Physics Bldg

University of Crete

GR-70013 Heraklion, Greece

I am a Doctoral candidate working with Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), one of the highest-resolution telescope arrays on Earth to study compact radio sources at kiloparsec scales.

A core part of my PhD work is building VASCO, a fully automated VLBI calibration pipeline built on CASA, designed to handle large-volume data without manual intervention.

news

Apr 1, 2023 Joined Institute of Astrophysics (IA-FORTH) :smile:
Feb 2, 2023 Launched this portfolio website! :sparkles: :smile:
Oct 19, 2022 Nature : A black hole is firing jets into a neighbouring galaxy
Oct 11, 2022 RAS : Black hole discovered firing jet at neighbouring galaxy
Nov 13, 2021 Telegraph India : Amity Mumbai and UC Berkeley look for advanced life forms
Feb 9, 2018 Vigyan Prasar : Inspired by a Bollywood flick and power of Facebook, Indian scientist builds army of e-astronomers

selected publications

  1. VASCO: A fully automated CASA pipeline for large volume VLBI data calibration
    A. Kumar, C. Casadio, M. Janssen, and 2 more authors
    2026
    arXiv
  2. SMILE: Discriminating milli-lens systems in a VLBI pilot project
    F. M. Pötzl, C. Casadio, G. Kalaitzidakis, and 11 more authors
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 695, id.A169, 16 pp., Mar 2025
    ADS
  3. RAD@home RGB-maker web-tool for citizen science research in multi-wavelength study of AGNs with radio jets
    Avinash Kumar, Ck. Avinash, Arundhati Purohit, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Jan 2023
    ADS
  4. RAD@ home citizen science discovery of an active galactic nucleus spewing a large unipolar radio bubble on to its merging companion galaxy
    Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Sravani Vaddi, and 8 more authors
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Jan 2022
    arXiv HTML ADS
  5. SETI India: Using uGMRT to search for advanced extraterrestrial life
    Avinash Kumar, Raghav Girgaonkar, Akshay E, and 3 more authors
    In Astronomical Society of India Meeting 2022, Jan 2022
    Poster