The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is an ideal environment for undertaking instrumentation projects for any field. Our group is currently involved in three key projects:
Daksha is a proposed pair of space telescopes for detecting X-ray and gamma ray explosions in the sky. Daksha will be 10x more sensitive than any existing satellites.
The GROWTH-India telescope is a 0.7m, wide-field optical telescope. The telescope is dedicated to time domain astrophysics as a part of the GROWTH network. Our group handled most of the automation work.
The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager on AstroSat has proven to be a versatile transient detector, detecting over 250 GRBs. We use this instrument to study GRBs, FRBs, and counterparts to GW sources.
Our group leads the Indian efforts in broadband electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave sources.
We have undertaken various excursions into other transients like GRBs, FRBs, Tidal Disruption Events, and Supernovae.
We use a variety of X-ray telescopes to study properties of X-ray binaries, primarily focusing on neutron star physics.