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Education: M.Sc.: KU Leuven (2027), B.S.: University of Washington (2024)

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Research Interests: Massive Stars, Binary Interactions, Stellar Populations, Stellar Evolution, Emission Line Objects, Transients, Evolved Stars, TZOs, Spectroscopy, Time Domain Studies, Machine Learning./p>

About Me: Hiii! My name is Ishan Ghosh-Coutinho, but my friends call me Isha! I am currently a Masters Student at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, KUL). I define myself, both as a person and a scientist, by my undying curiosity and love of research; my creativity; my perseverance; and my commitment to community and outreach. I studied Astronomy (Major) at the University of Washington (UW), with a research focus on massive stars and stellar populations. A broad theme of my work centers around preparing for the upcoming era of Big Data in Astronomy and the Next-Generation Observatories such as, but not limited to, SDSS, Vera C. Ruben, and the Roman Space Telescope. I am currently a Master's Candidate at KUL's Instituut voor Astronomie (IvS). Previously, I was an undergraduate, then Post-Bacc Scientist and Scholar at the University of Washington's Department of Astronomy. Im currently working on Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) Simulations of colliding degenerate stars, spectroscopic observations of candidate Stripped Helium Stars, and improving the stellar parameters recovered from medium spectrcopic surveys I am broadly interested in stars, and have learned a multitude of methods — from stellar population synthesis, to magnetohydrodynamical simulations, to spectroscopy and time domain analyses, to machine learning — I have also studied Theatre through my Design for Performance Minor, with a focus on Theatre Production and Costume Design. I have designed several 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 o planetrium show at your institution/event, please see my contact info.

- Isha / Ishan F. Ghosh-Coutinho

Astronomy

On this page, you will find a list of past and ongoing projects! 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.

Long-term, I hope to work on characterizing massive stellar evolution, particularly from progenitors into exotic evolutionary states (WR, TZO, LBV, FPYSG, Hydrogen Emission 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 at scaling 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.

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.

Intermediate-Mass Stripped Helium Stars

Intermediate-Mass Stripped Helium Stars project

Project description coming soon.

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Census of Variability in Hot Massive Stars

Census of Variability in Hot Massive Stars project

Project description coming soon.

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Photometric Classification of Evolved Stars

Photometric Classification of Evolved Stars project

Project description coming soon.

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Outreach and Service

Mentoring

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Tutoring

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Public Talks

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Planetarium Shows

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Public Service

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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:

ifgc@ifgc-astro.space

Address:

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

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