Name: Dr. Ayesha Sinha
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Physics
E-Mail: ayesha@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-4092-335
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (Jan 2012-) Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

• Post doc: Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA ( 2 years) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK (2 years).

• Ph D: (Astronomy and Astrophysics),  National Centre for Radio Astrophysics,  Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India.

Research Interest:

• Galaxy evolution, Structure and dynamics of interstellar medium, Star formation. 

Selected Publications:

1. Small Bites: Star Formation Recepies in Extreme Dwarfs, Sambit Roychowdhury, Jayaram N. Chengalur, Serafim, S. Kaisin, Ayesha Begum & \\ I. D. Karachentsev, 2011, MNRAS (Lett), 414, L55.

2. The thermally-unstable warm neutral medium: key for modeling the ISM, Ayesha Begum, Snezana Stanimirovic, Miller Goss, Carl Heiles, Anthony Pavkovich  & Patrick Hennebelle, 2010, ApJ, 725, 1779.

3. Compact HI clouds from the GALFA-HI survey, Ayesha Begum, Snezana Stanimirovic et al. 2010, ApJ, 722, 395.

4. The scale height of NGC1058 measured from the HI power spectrum, Prasun Dutta, Ayesha Begum, Somnath Bharadwaj & Jayaram N. Chengalur, 2009, MNRAS (Lett), 397, L60

5. A study of ISM of dwarf galaxies using HI power spectrum analysis,  Prasun Dutta, Ayesha Begum, Somnath Bharadwaj & Jayaram N. Chengalur,  2009, MNRAS, 398, 887.

6. FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey $-$ overview, observations and first results, Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur, I. D. Karachentsev, M. Sharina & S. S. Kaisin, 2008, MNRAS, 386, 1667.

7. Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation for extremely low mass galaxies, Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur, I. D. Karachentsev  & M. Sharina, 2008,  MNRAS, 386, 138.

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