Kshitij Bane
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: kbane [at] ncra.tifr.res.in
Phone: 020 25719250
Extn: 9250
Office: 218C
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Savitribai Phule Pune University Campus,
Pune 411 007
Maharashtra, INDIA
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Savitribai Phule Pune University Campus,
Pune 411 007
Maharashtra, INDIA
Main Research Areas: Radio astronomy instrumentation, Digital Signal Processing, Pulsars, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)
Biography:
Kshitij Bane obtained a B.Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from Mumbai University in 2016. He then joined the Integrated M.Tech.-Ph.D. (Instrumentation) programme at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, run in collaboration with Calcutta University. He obtained a Master's degree in Astronomical Instrumentation in 2019, and his Ph.D. degree in 2025, both from Calcutta University. His doctoral research was carried out at the Gauribidanur Radio Observatory, Karnataka. In 2025, he joined NCRA-TIFR as a post-doctoral fellow, to work on the SPOTLIGHT project.Research description:
During my Ph.D. at the Gauribidanur Radio Observatory, I developed the Gauribidanur Pulsar System (GAPS), which is a new radio telescope for observations of pulsars and other transients at low radio frequencies (below 100 MHz). I was involved in the design, development, and testing of the antenna array analog system, and also the back-end digital receiver which consisted of an FPGA-based spectrometer. I developed the pipelines for the system using which multiple pulsars were detected. Presently, I am involved in the SPOTLIGHT project, which is a real-time commensal search system for FRBs using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. I am involved in the development of the real-time transient detection and filtering pipeline for the SPOTLIGHT project.Selected publications:
1. 1-bit raw voltage recording system for dedicated observations of transients at low radio frequencies (K. S. Bane et. al. 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 272, 27) 2. Initial results from multi-beam observations of pulsars and solar transients with the digital beamformer for the Gauribidanur pulsar system (K. S. Bane et. al. 2023, J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 10, 014001. 3. Prototype for pulsar observations at low radio frequencies using log- periodic dipole antennas (K. S. Bane et. al. 2022, J. Astron. Telesc. Instrum. Syst. 8, 017001)
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