Shriharsh Tendulkar

AI analytics @LeoLabs_Space . All tweets/views are personal.
Formerly astronomy faculty at TIFR & NCRA. CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2022-24

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

The past decade of FRBs and magnetars has been amazing fun, thanks to all my friends, mentors, and colleagues. I'm looking forward to another amazing decade of learning and development in this new field.

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

Astro folks, a long due exciting announcement! About a month ago, I joined @LeoLabs_Space to work on space domain awareness - monitoring satellites and space debris. Managing space traffic is a massive challenge, requiring coordinated efforts from everyone.

[Varun Bhalerao @starlabiitb]

Fantastic result from @isro's Chandrayaan 3, revealing new details of the Moon's geology! The work was led by Santosh Vadawale, a close collaborator and the @PRLAhmedabad lead for @dakshasats
https://t.co/Y43sVmasug
Research paper: https://t.co/dgtEcJseFH

[Daksha Space Mission @dakshasats]

Big big congrats to the entire team of #Chandrayaan3 and @isro for this incredible news! 🎉

Special Shoutout to Santosh Vadawale from @PRLAhmedabad, a key player in this and our Daksha mission. 🚀

Proud that several Daksha team members are part of these historic milestones. ✨

[LeoLabs @LeoLabs_Space]

🚨 We’re actively monitoring and analyzing the breakup event in #LEO involving a Chinese rocket body, CZ-6A. Our radar data indicates this event occurred on 6 August at ~20:10 UTC at ~810 km.

It resulted in at least 700 debris fragments and potentially more than 900.

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

The aim is to run this pipeline on all archival data and prepare for upcoming surveys from @SKAO, @CSIRO_ATNF, and all other interferometers. Very excited to see this in action.

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

Paper day!
https://t.co/AiTakT10QA (accepted in ApJ)

My student Jitendra Salal (@NCRA_Outreach ) has developed a super-computationally-efficient method of identifying diffractive scintillation in radio interferometric images.

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

We show its use for identifying candidate pulsars from imaging data (adding to other criteria, like steep spectra). Then we can throw full binary parameter searches on these to find compact binaries, extreme eccentricities, large duty cycles and more!

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

@Kaju_Nut Damn. So much ado for nothing

[Gaurav Waratkar @GauravWaratkar]

Excited to share that I have started a new position as an LSC Fellow at the @LIGO Livingston Observatory!

I will be in Baton Rouge, LA for the next 3 months 😄

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

@GauravWaratkar @LIGO @LIGOIndia @Caltech Congratulations! 🎉

[IIT Bombay @iitbombay]

Prof. @starlabiitb, Department of Physics at #IITB presented his vision at the 3rd Annual CSR Conclave 2024 to develop the world's most sensitive space telescope for studying explosive events across the length and breadth of the universe towards making India self-reliant by 2047

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Ajith. He does incredible futuristic work on gravitational lensing of gravitational waves. Mind (and space) bending ideas!

[ICTS @ictstifr]

Congrats to Prof P Ajith @ICTS on being elected as an INSA associate fellow for his work on gravitational lensing of gravitational waves. His @LIGO group hunts for these elusive signals to explore the universe!

Read more:
https://t.co/8jmnl0FxuO

[Ron of Kochi @ron_of_kochi]

Delighted to see my copy on Kodaikanal Observatory on the front page of Chennai Express. Thanks @AntoJoseph, @Anushree_TNIE.

Perched high on the Palani Hills, KSO is one of the oldest observatories in the world, home to the most extensive solar archives. It turned 125 this yr.

Online 🔗: https://t.co/YW5DzM39MT

@xpresskerala @xpresstn @pendown @rajeshravi71 @krishna_suma_ @IIABengaluru @doot_iia @PrinSciAdvOff @CosmosMysuru @RRI_Bangalore @asipoec @fiddlingstars @Indus_SolPhy @CosmicVarta @santwana99 @Senthil_TNIE @tniefeatures @NewIndianXpress

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

Whoa! @rohanchabukswar did you know about this?

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

In these days of mega franchises like MI, CSK and KKR, I can never forget the first franchise team I read about!
It featured H G Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome and A. A. Milne and assorted professors, architects, big game hunters and painters.
Their captain and founder was the writer of Peter Pan, James Barrie.
The team's name was a portmanteau of Barrie's name and the mistaken belief that 'Allah akbar' meant 'Heaven help us' in Arabic, very apt, given that they were wonderful authors and terrible though hugely enthusiastic cricketers.
But Barrie always encouraged his players. He praised one teammate's performance by observing that "You scored a good single in the first innings but were not so successful in the second."
His selection policies were also unique. In his words, “with regard to the married men, it was because I liked their wives, with the regard to the single men, it was for the oddity of their personal appearance.”
He was a canny captain. He would never allow his players to practice on the ground just before a game as the sight would invariably boost the confidence of the opponents.
He would also remind his players that, “should you hit the ball, run at once. Do not stop to cheer."
It was tough captaining the Allahakbarries. As it was the easiest position to field, most of the fielders would go to long on, sometimes as many as seven would gather there with huge gaps in the rest of the field.
The team played all their matches in the magical pre-war era, and some of them lost their lives later in the great war of 1914.
But the story of the Allahakbarries remains an inspiration to all cricket enthusiasts, and Barrie's book about the team had a foreword by Sir Donald Bradman when it was re-released in 1950!

[Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the GoI @PrinSciAdvOff]

PSA Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood visited (6 July 2024) the facilities of the Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) in Hanle, Ladakh. IAO, situated at an altitude of approximately 4,500 meters (14,764 feet) above sea level, is a facility of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore (@IIABengaluru), autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology of Government of India (@IndiaDST) .

Director-IIA Dr. Annapurni Subramaniam (@fiddlingstars) and the IAO scientists accompanied Prof. Sood during the 2-m diameter optical-infrared Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) facility, and discussed its operations. Prof. Sood also visited the proposed site of the National Large Solar Telescope at Merek, on the banks of the lake Pangong Tso. Vice Chancellor of @University of Ladakh (@ULadakh), Prof. Surinder Kumar Mehta also joined PSA in these visits.

The Hanle region is known for its exceptionally clear skies and low light pollution, making it an excellent location for stargazing and astronomical observations. Hanle is also home to a unique Dark Sky Reserve designated by the International Dark-Sky Association.

@karandi65 @lg_ladakh @PIBSrinagar @utladakhtourism @dorje1974

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

In Maharashtra, families of farmers dying of debt and losses get: 1 lakh, (Amount unchanged for decades)

Rich, winning cricketers get: 1 crore each. 👏👏

[Shriharsh Tendulkar @multimsgrbooms]

Wow!

[Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell]

When the Large Hadron Collider shuts down, all those high-speed particles have to go somewhere.
This is where: They land in an 8-meter-long radioactive graphite trash can, called a beam dump. https://t.co/wJPDm1oSaH

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Let’s type “science is a cult” into a handheld device with 19B transistors that gives instantaneous access to a global network of ~140 zettabytes of data and knows your precise position on Earth because the satellites it’s talking to correct for gravitational time dilation.