Abhijeet Borkar
email: borkar@asu.cas.cz
phone: +420
I am a Researcher in the Prague Relativistic Astrophysics group at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I spend most my time studying the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies and their interaction with the host galaxy, particularly using radio interferometry techniques. And the rest of the time I am working as a contact scientist at the Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Center.
My research focuses on the study of AGN Feeding and Feedback mechanisms, comparing the accretion processes across the black hole mass scale, from stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries to super-massive black holes in AGNs. I also study the impact of radiation from the AGN on the surrounding galaxy; AGN properties in radio and submillimeter, and its correlation with AGN emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. Recently, I have also worked on star-forming dwarf galaxies called Green Peas and Blueberries, studying their radio properties and searching for accreting massive black holes in these systems. During my PhD, I studied the super-massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, its flaring activity in millimeter wavelengths, and the central parsec of the Galactic Nucleus.
As a member of the Czech Node of the European ALMA Regional Center network, I provide scientific and technical support for users of the ALMA telescope for preparing observation proposals, planning the selected observations, data analysis and quality assurance for the observed data. I am also involved in development of analysis scripts, organising workshops for ALMA users, and science popularisation.