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Akshara Viswanathan

@astroakshara.bsky.social

PhD researcher in Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, NL| Observational astronomer investigating baby Milky Way's shenanigan |🇮🇳🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇱| she/her | தமிழச்சி

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Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

So many emotions all at once!!! On December 6, I became a Doctor in Astrophysics and I am so very grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey since the 11-year-old me wanted to get a PhD in 'astro-stuff'. Here is a digital copy of my thesis: doi.org/10.33612/dis...

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Adrian Price-Whelan @adrian.pw · 31/05/2024

Paper day! Here is our attempt to summarize the exciting revolution Gaia has brought to the study of stellar streams around the Milky Way, as a part of a special issue of New Astronomy Reviews: arxiv.org/abs/2405.19410 🔭

An artistic visualization of member stars of all known stellar streams around the Milky Way galaxy

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Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Celebrating Gaia's 10th birthday with some cake 😍 loved making the Milky Way map edible❤️✨ #ESAGaia

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Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Very happy to share my new paper on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2309.06137 releasing a catalogue of spectroscopic metallicities of VMP stars using the amazing Gaia DR3 RVS spectra. Did you know that there exists a lot of archival VMP spectra out there with no published parameters?

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Gaia's brightest very metal-poor (VMP) stars: A metallicity...

Context. Gaia DR3 has offered the scientific community a remarkable dataset of approximately one million spectra acquired with the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) in the Calcium II triplet...

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Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Successful south pole lunar landing for ISRO 😍 Congratulations to everyone who made it possible, it's such a proud moment for India🎉 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chandr...

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Chandrayaan 3 Landing Live: ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander makes successful soft-landing on Moon

Chandrayaan 3 Moon Landing: Chandrayaan-3, former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair delved into how this mission is significant for overall spacefaring for India and also about the last-minute manoeuvres....

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