Name: Dr. Rajib Saha
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Physics
E-Mail: rajib@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092322
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

• Assistant Professor (May 2010-),Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.

• Post-doc:  (June 2008 – April 2010), Caltech post-doctoral fellow in  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,  Pasadena, California.

• Ph. D. Physics, Angular power spectrum estimation using linear combination of  multi-frequency CMB  maps” with Prof. Pankaj Jain in IIT Kanpur .

   

Research Interest:

• Cosmology: Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

Selected Publications:

1. CMB Polarization and Temperature Power Spectra Estimation using Linear Combination of WMAP 5-year Maps. Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Jacques Delabrouille, Simon Prunet, Pankaj Jain, Tarun Souradeep Astrophys. J., 714, 1, (2010), 840-851, (arXiv:astro-ph/0903.3634).

2. Model Independent Foreground Power Spectrum Estimation using WMAP 5-year Data. Tuhin Ghosh, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain, Tarun Souradeep.
   Phys. Rev. D, 79, (2009), 123011, (arXiv:astro-ph/0901.1641).

3. Signals of Statistical Anisotropy in WMAP Foreground-Cleaned Maps.
    Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston.
   Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 396, (2009), 511, (arXiv:astro-ph/0811.1639).

4. Testing Isotropy of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
   Pramoda Kumar Samal, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston.
   Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 385, (2008), 1718, (arXiv:astro-ph/0708.2816).

5. CMB anisotropy power spectrum using linear combinations of WMAP maps.
   Rajib Saha, Simon Prunet, Pankaj Jain, Tarun Souradeep.
   Phys. Rev. D, 78, (2008), 023003, (arXiv:astro-ph/0706.3567).

6. CMB power spectrum estimation with non-circular beam and incomplete sky coverage.
   Sanjit Mitra, Anand S. Sengupta, Subharthi Ray, Rajib Saha, Tarun Souradeep.
   Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 394, 2009, 1419-1439, (arXiv:astro-ph/0702100).

7. Non-Circular beam correction to the CMB power spectrum.
   Tarun Souradeep, Sanjit Mitra, Anand Sengupta, Subharthi Ray, Rajib Saha.
   Proceedings of the Fundamental Physics with CMB workshop, UC Irvine, March 23-25, New Astron. Rev., 50, (2006), 1030-1035, (arXiv:astro-ph/0608505).

8. Angular power spectrum of CMB anisotropy from WMAP. Tarun Souradeep, Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain.Proceedings of the Fundamental Physics with CMB workshop, UC Irvine, March 23-25, New Astron. Rev., 50, (2006), 854-860, (arXiv:astro-ph/0608199).

9. A re-analysis of the three-year WMAP temperature power spectrum and likelihood.
   H. K. Eriksen, Greg Huey, R. Saha, F. K. Hansen, J. Dick, A. J. Banday, K. M. Gorski, P. Jain, J. B. Jewell, L. Knox, D. L. Larson, I. J. O’Dwyer, T. Souradeep, B. D. Wandelt. Astrophys. J., 656, (2007), 641-652, (arXiv:astro-ph/0606088).

10. A blind estimation of the power spectrum of CMB anisotropy from WMAP.
    Rajib Saha, Pankaj Jain and Tarun Souradeep. Astrophys. J., 645, (2006), L89-L92, (arXiv:astro-ph/0508383).

11. The Dynamical Mixing of Light and Pseudoscalar Fields. Sudeep Das, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston, Rajib Saha Pramana, 70, (2008), 439, (arXiv:hep-ph/0410006).

12. Probing light pseudoscalars with light propagation, resonance and sponta- neous polarization. Sudeep Das, Pankaj Jain, John P. Ralston, Rajib Saha.
    J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys., 0506, (2005), 002, (arXiv:hep-ph/0408198).

     

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