Amina Thekkoth
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: athekkoth [at] ncra.tifr.res.in
Phone: 02025719258
Extn: 9258
Office: F208
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: Active galactic Nuclei; Blazars; Multiwavelength Astronomy.
Biography:
Amina completed her M.Sc. in Physics from the School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, in 2009. She then worked as an Assistant Professor in the Zamorin's Guruvayoorappan College, Farook College, and the Department of Physics, University of Calicut. She joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Calicut in 2019 and obtained her doctoral degree in 2025. In November, she joined NCRA-TIFR as a Project Postdoctoral Fellow on the project Multi-wavelength investigation of blazar jets.Research description:
My main research focus is on Blazars and the associated physics. I am particularly interested in the high-energy emissions from these compact sources. My work explores the physical phenomena occurring close to the supermassive black hole, that trigger extremely powerful emissions on time scales ranging from minutes to years. Currently, I am also interested in aligning my expertise with radio-loud quasars, a parent population of blazars. In particular, I would like to investigate how the highly variable, relativistically boosted blazar jet phenomena at the pc scales manifest on kpc scales using uGMRT observations.Selected publications:
1. P. N. Naseef Mohammed, A. Thekkoth, C. Baheeja, et al. 2025, "Deciphering the multi-wavelength flares of the most distant very high-energy (>100 GeV) gamma-ray emitting blazar", Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 47, 100365. 2. C. Baheeja, A. Thekkoth, S. Sahayanathan, et al. 2024, "Long term multi-wavelength spectral variations of blazar s5 0716+714", Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, 103. 3. A. Thekkoth et al. 2024, "Gamma-ray variability and multi-wavelength insights into the unprecedented outburst from 4C 31.03", Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 42, 115. 4. A. Thekkoth et al. 2023, "Understanding the broad-band emission process of 3C 279 through long term spectral analysis”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526, 6364
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