About

Harsha Raichur completed her PhD at Indian Institute of Science in 2009. She then was a research consultant at Florida University for a short time after which she was a post-doctoral fellow at IUCAA and then RRI.

Harsha's research interests are in X-ray Astronomy. She uses observations from the various X-ray satellites to study extreme stellar objects like neutron stars and Black holes in binaries. She calculates their orbits and use spectral information to try and constrain the masses and in case of Neutron star also their radii. Harsha also observes galaxy centers of low surface brightness galaxies which are dark matter dominated and supposed to evolve differently from the normal galaxies.