Ishan F. Ghosh-Coutinho

Intro

Education: B.S.: University of Washington (2024)

Published Works: ADS Author Query

Research Interests: Massive Stars, Stellar Populations, Stelar Evolution, Emmison Line Objects, Transients, Galactic Evolution, AGNs, Spectroscopy, Time Domain Studies, Machine Learning, LSST

About Me: I am a recent gradute at the University of Wahshington. I studied Astronomy (Major), with a research focus on massive stars and stellar populations via stellar spectroscopy, machine learning applications, and time domain studies. I have also studied Design for Performance (Minor), with a focus on Design for Theatre and Costume Design. I am broadly interested in stars, and have learned a multitude of methods — from stellar population synthesis to spectroscopy and time domain analyses, to machine learning — to the end of working on research centered around preparing for the upcoming era of Big Data in Astronomy and the Next-Generation Observatories such as JWST, Vera C. Ruben, and the Roman Space Telescope.

On this site, you can learn more about my research here, or see my outreach work and/or my theatre and design projects. If you'd like to reach out with a question, or if you would like me to give a talk at your institution, please see my contact info.

Astronomy

My current research interests lie in understanding Massive Stars. Massive stars represent the extremes of stellar evolution. They serve as laboratories for studying stellar evolution and various astrophysical phenomena exhibit a wide range of exotic evolutionary stages, and are the sites of key physical processes that shape the Universe. Their short lifetimes and intrinsic rarity make them a unique challenge to study. My current research interest is in understanding massive stellar evolution through spectroscopic and time-domain analysis to constrain the impact on their local environments.

Long term, I hope to work on characterizing massive stellar evolution, particularly from progenitors into exotic evolutionary states (WR, TZO, LBV, FPYSG, Hydrogen Emmison Stars (OBe, OB[e], Herbig, etc), etc) and using spectroscopic and time-domain analysis to better constrain the impact of factors like rotation, dust, mass loss, magnetic fields, internal mixing, binary interactions, etc on stellar evolution. I would like to characterize how these processes across the last populations of massive stars impact their local environment and host galaxies. A lot of my research has been centered around preparing for the upcoming era of Big Data in Astronomy and the Next-Generation Observatories such as JWST, Vera C. Ruben, and the Roman Space Telescope.

I am currently working on projects aimed to scale to the Legacy Survey of Space and Time using data from the Gaia mission, Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, and the Zwicky Transient Facility to learn how to characterize and extrapolate luminosity class of cool stars (<4500 K) If you'd be intrested in collaborating with me, please see my contact info.

Outreach and Service

Theatre Design

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Beyond Astronomy, I studied Theatre Design, focusing on costume design. Some of the designs I created during the program are below.

Airness — Lead Costume Designer

The Moors — Assistant Costume Designer

She Kills Monsters — Costume Design Lab

Raine Whisper, The Owl House — Costume Construction Lab

Misc. Costume Designs

Misc. Designs and Art

Theatre Design

Beyond Astronomy, I study Theatre Design, focusing on costume design. Some of my designs are below.
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My full portfolio is available here [Under Construction]

"She Kills Monsters" (Designs) PLACE HOLDER IMAGES

Project 1

"Airness" (Designs)

Project 2

"Airness" (Costumes)

Project 3

Contact

If you have any questions about my work, feel free to reach out. I am also available to speak at your institution, and am always happy to give public outreach talks.

Email:

ifc2002@uw.edu

Address:

Department of Astronomy
University of Washington
Physics-Astronomy Bldg, Room C319
Box 351580
Seattle, WA 98195-1700

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