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Tanmoy Laskar

Assistant Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Utah

Tanmoy Laskar
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Press Releases

  • A Reverse Shock in GRB 130427A

    First confirmed reverse shock in a gamma-ray burst

    "A Reverse Shock in GRB 130427A", Laskar et al. (2013), ApJ, 776, 119

  • Enduring radio rebound

    Enduring radio "rebound" powered by jets from gamma-ray burst

    "First ALMA Light Curve Constrains Refreshed Reverse Shocks and Jet magnetization", Laskar et al (2018), ApJ, 862, 94

  • 161219B ALMA movie

    ALMA creates its first-ever movie of a cosmic explosion

    "First ALMA Light Curve Constrains Refreshed Reverse Shocks and Jet magnetization", Laskar et al (2018), ApJ, 862, 94

  • Magnetic field patches in 190114C

    First detection of polarised radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets

    "ALMA Detection of a Linearly Polarized Reverse Shock in GRB 190114C", Laskar et al. (2019), ApJL, 878, 26

  • Artist's impression of a magnetar

    Neutron star collision releases puzzling burst of infrared light

    "The Broad-band Counterpart of the Short GRB 200522A", Fong, Laskar, et al. (in press)

  • Curriculum Vitae

    I am an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah (USA) since August 2022. 

    I was previously a Fellow of the Radboud Excellence Initiative at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), a postdoc at the University of Bath, and a Jansky Fellow of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley from 2015 - 2018. I completed my PhD in Astronomy from Harvard University, where I studied the progenitors and environments of long-duration gamma-ray bursts. 

    I received my undergraduate degree in Physics from St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi, India in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, I studied Parts II and III in Physics at Trinity College,University of Cambridge. At Trinity, I held the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Cambridge Scholarship, which is a fellowship given to one undergraduate from India every year. I received my Masters in Astronomy from Harvard in 2011.

    I am an amateur astronomer and love looking up at the night sky. I built a 6" Newtonian reflecting telescope to explore the wonders of the celestial sphere. I also designed and built a 20 MHz radio receiver for observing radio bursts from Jupiter and the Galaxy, based on NASA's Radio-Jove concept.

    Besides astronomy, I love reading, writing, poetry, ballroom dance, and music. When I'm not working, I can be found long-distance mentoring my SF Bay area-based chamber choir Tactus, or writing Renaissance polyphony.

    Selected Awards & Honors

    Year Award Institution
    2021 Excellence Fellowship
    Multi-year postdoctoral fellowship
    Radboud University
    2020 Outstanding Contribution Award
    For staff who "demonstrate sustained exceptional performance"
    University of Bath
    2020 Peter Troughton Prize
    Awarded to a postdoctoral member of research staff for outstanding performance
    University of Bath
    2019 Staff Recognizing Excellence Award
    For staff who have "demonstrated outstanding achievement or excellence over the previous academic year, which has been of such a high standard that it has made a significant difference to students, colleagues, the department, or the University as a whole."
    University of Bath
    2019 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Delegate
    Representing the University of Bath and the UK Royal Society at the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
    Bath / Royal Astronomical Society
    2015 Jansky Fellowship
    Three-year postdoctoral fellowship, held at the University of California, Berkeley
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    2015 Commencement Marshall
    One of "eight outstanding students [across all Harvard Phd programs] selected as 2015 marshals by a committee of the Graduate Student Council. Awarded to students who have contributed meaningfully to student life."
    Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
    2013 Merit Fellowship Harvard University
    2012 Student Observing Support Award
    In support of doctoral dissertations associated with high-ranking observing programs at NRAO (approximately 2-3 awarded per year)
    National Radio Astronomy Observatory
    2009 Merrill Fellowship Harvard University
    2007 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust Scholarship
    Awarded to one student from India to study for an affiliate undergraduate degree at Trinity College, University of Cambridge
    Trinity College, University of Cambridge

     

Recent Publications

  • The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-angled Jet of the Extremely Energetic SGRB 211106A
  • GRB 180418A: A Possibly Short Gamma-Ray Burst with a Wide-angle Outflow in a Faint Host Galaxy
  • The Broadband Counterpart of the Short GRB 200522A at z = 0.5536: A Luminous Kilonova or a Collimated Outflow with a Reverse Shock?
  • GRB Fermi-LAT Afterglows: Explaining Flares, Breaks, and Energetic Photons
  • A Late-time Radio Survey of Short Gamma-ray Bursts at z < 0.5: New Constraints on the Remnants of Neutron-star Mergers
  • Lyman continuum leakage in faint star-forming galaxies at redshift z = 3-3.5 probed by gamma-ray bursts
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Contact

Department of Physics and Astronomy
201 James Fletcher Building
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 94112
USA

tanmoy.laskar@utah.edu
t.laskar@astro.ru.nl
laskar@post.harvard.edu

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