Abhijeet Anand's CV

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Abhijeet Anand, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA
[email protected], https://abhi0395.github.io/, Google Scholar

Research Interests

Observational galaxy formation and evolution, circumgalactic and intergalactic medium, quasar absorption lines, spectral fitting for large surveys, data science methods

Positions

Sep 2022 - present: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA

• Investigating evolution of metal absorbers in the universe with DESI quasars.

• Improved redshift estimation algorithms for DESI galaxies, support scientist for DESI spectroscopic pipeline

Sep 2018 - Jul 2022: IMPRS PhD Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

• Conducted extensive studies on the gas distribution in the circumgalactic and intracluster medium using data from SDSS and DESI.

• Developed the quasar absorber finder, qsoabsfind, a tool used for detecting and analyzing metal absorbers in quasar spectra.

Sep 2017 - Jul 2018: UGC - JRF¹, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

Education

Sep 2018 - Jul 2022: PhD in Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), Germany.

• Thesis: Probing cool and warm circumgalactic gas in galaxies and clusters with large spectroscopic and imaging surveys

• Advisors: Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann & Dr. Dylan Nelson

Jul 2016 - Jul 2017: MS, Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.

• Thesis: A sensitive search for HI 21 cm emission from super disks in radio galaxies

• Advisor: Prof. Nirupam Roy

Aug 2012 - June 2016: BSc (Research), Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

• Thesis: Sources of Continuum Opacity in Hydrogen deficient stars

• Advisors: Prof. Gajendra Pandey, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA)

Selected visits, talks and conferences (>20 talks)

$^i$Invited Talks, $^c$Contributed Talks, $^s$Schools & Workshops

$^i$ Jan 2025: DESI Year 1 Science Results, 245th AAS Meeting, Maryland, USA, Jan 12 - Jan 15, 2025

$^i$ Dec 2024: Joint Astronomy Program Seminar, IISc, Bangalore, India, Dec 11, 2024 (talk)

$^c$ Dec 2024: Baryons Beyond Galactic Boundaries, IUCAA Pune, India, Dec 2 - Dec 6, 2024 (talk)

$^c$ Nov 2024: ISSAC Conference, St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, India, Nov 20 - Nov 22, 2024 (talk)

$^i$ Oct 2024: DESI Absorber Topical Working Group Seminar, Oct 10, 2024 (Virtual talk)

$^i$ Feb 2024: Extragalactic Seminar, MPA Garching, Germany, Feb 29, 2024 (Talk).

$^i$ Feb 2024: Cosmology Seminar, MPA Garching, Germany, Feb 27, 2024 (Talk).

$^i$ Oct 2023: DESI Data Systems and Management Meeting, Oct 31, 2023 (Virtual Talk).

$^i$ Mar 2022: Computational Galaxy Formation and Evolution Group, ZAH/ITA, University of Heidelberg, 14-16 Mar, 2022 (Visitor).

$^i$ Feb 2022: High Energy Group Seminar, MPE Garching, 15 Feb, 2022 (Virtual).

$^i$ Feb 2022: DESI Group Seminar, Berkeley Lab, 1 Feb, 2022 (Virtual).

$^i$ Dec 2021: Galaxies & Cosmology Seminar, CfA Harvard, 13 Dec, 2021 (Virtual).

$^i$ Sep 2021: STARs lab, Arizona State University, 24 Sep, 2021 (Virtual).

Mentoring

– Joanne Tan (MPA Garching PhD) (CGM absorbers in TNG-100), 2024-present

– Shivansh Tiwari (Delhi University UG) (QSO continuum modeling), 2024-present

– Corey Dodeson (UC Berkeley UG) (short-term reading project on CGM), 2023

– Dylan Green (UC Irvine PhD) (as part of DESI mentorship program), 2023

Computer skills

Language/Packages —
– python, numpy, matplotlib, scipy, astropy

OS/Tools —
– Linux, Mac, LaTeX, bash scripting, jupyter notebooks, slurm manager, git

Member & contributor (github repo & software) —

• qsoabsfind: QSO metal absorber finder (Developer).

• redrock: Redshift fitting for spectroperfectionism (Contributor).

• desihub: Public code associated with DESI (Contributor).

Awarded Supercomputing time

– 2024: Perlmutter Supercomputer at NERSC, Properties of precious metal absorbers in DESI quasar spectra, 1000 CPU hours, 1000 GPU hours, PI: A. Anand

– 2023: Perlmutter Supercomputer at NERSC, Archetype based redshift estimation for DESI, 1000 CPU hours, 1000 GPU hours, PI: A. Anand

– 2018-2022: Freya Supercomputer at MPCDF, The multiphase galactic halo of galaxies and clusters with large spectroscopic and imaging surveys, 5000 CPU hours, PI: A. Anand

Observing and data processing experience

– Sep 2022: Support Scientist for DESI spectroscopic pipeline

– Jul 2024: Support Observing Scientist for DESI, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Jul 2-5, 2024 (four nights).

Honors & Awards

– DESI Early Career Travel Grant (USD 4000).

– DESI Postdoc Fellowship, 2022–2025.

– IMPRS PhD Fellowship, 2018–2022.

– UGC - Junior Research Fellowship, 2017-2018 (INR 390,000).

– DST² - Higher Studies Scholarship, 2012-2017 (INR 400,000).

Professional service & activities

Referee —
– Astronomy & Astrophysics, Astrophysical Journal, Internal Reviewer for DESI papers

Organizer & Member —
– Core committee member for DESI Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI) committee.
– INPA Weekly Seminar, Physics Division, LBNL, 2023-2024

Teaching Experience —
– Served as online physics tutor at E-acharya (more than 20 students)³ from June 2017 - Aug 2018.

Outreach activities

Press releases —
– My papers (I, II) featured in monthly research highlight of MPA and appeared on astrobites.

Interviews & podcast —
– Interviewed by Vidpeds podcast to discuss my astronomy journey and how people from small cities can become successful astronomers.
– Gave interview to The Interview Portal to help Indian college students plan their careers.

Publications

Total: 20 / refereed: 11 / first author: 4 / citations: 1,322 / h-index: 11 (Last updated: 2024-12-31), List attached below

First author

Anand, Abhijeet; Guy, Julien; Bailey, Stephen; Moustakas, John; Aguilar, J.; et al., 2024, Archetype-based Redshift Estimation for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 124 (arXiv:2405.19288) [8 citations]

Anand, Abhijeet; Kauffmann, Guinevere; & Nelson, Dylan, 2022, Cool circumgalactic gas in galaxy clusters: connecting the DESI legacy imaging survey and SDSS DR16 Mg II absorbers, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513, 3210 (arXiv:2201.07811) [23 citations]

Anand, Abhijeet; Nelson, Dylan; & Kauffmann, Guinevere, 2021, Characterizing the abundance, properties, and kinematics of the cool circumgalactic medium of galaxies in absorption with SDSS DR16, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504, 65 (arXiv:2103.15842) [35 citations]

Anand, Abhijeet; Roy, Nirupam; & Gopal-Krishna, 2019, Search for H I emission from superdisk candidates associated with radio galaxies, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19, 83 (arXiv:1812.06875) [2 citations]

Significant contribution

Chang, Yu-Ling; Lan, Ting-Wen; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Napolitano, Lucas; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Probing the Impact of Radio-mode Feedback on the Properties of the Cool Circumgalactic Medium, The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 191 (arXiv:2405.08314)

Galiullin, Ilkham; Rodriguez, Antonio C.; El-Badry, Kareem; Szkody, Paula; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Searching for new cataclysmic variables in the Chandra Source Catalog, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690 (arXiv:2408.00078) [1 citations]

Wu, X.; Cai, Z.; Lan, T. -W.; Zou, S.; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, Tracing the evolution of the cool gas in CGM and IGM environments through Mg II absorption from redshift z=0.75 to z=1.65 using DESI-Y1 data, ArXiv (arXiv:2407.17809) [3 citations]

Napolitano, Lucas; Pandey, Agnesh; Myers, Adam D.; Lan, Ting-Wen; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2023, Detecting and Characterizing Mg II Absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra, The Astronomical Journal, 166, 99 (arXiv:2305.20016) [15 citations]

Ayromlou, Mohammadreza; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Anand, Abhijeet; & White, Simon D. M., 2023, The physical origin of galactic conformity: from theory to observation, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519, 1913 (arXiv:2207.02218) [17 citations]

Collaboration papers

Scholte, Dirk; Saintonge, Amélie; Moustakas, John; Catinella, Barbara; Zou, Hu; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, The atomic gas sequence and mass-metallicity relation from dwarfs to massive galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 535, 2341 (arXiv:2408.03996) [1 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 V: Full-Shape Galaxy Clustering from Galaxies and Quasars, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12021) [10 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 VII: Cosmological Constraints from the Full-Shape Modeling of Clustering Measurements, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12022) [11 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 II: Sample Definitions, Characteristics, and Two-point Clustering Statistics, ArXiv (arXiv:2411.12020) [4 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, The Early Data Release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, The Astronomical Journal, 168, 58 (arXiv:2306.06308) [226 citations]

Ross, A. J.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; Anand, Abhijeet; et al., 2024, The Construction of Large-scale Structure Catalogs for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, ArXiv (arXiv:2405.16593) [9 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03002) [483 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03000) [174 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest, ArXiv (arXiv:2404.03001) [143 citations]

DESI Collaboration; Adame, A. G.; Aguilar, J.; Ahlen, S.; Alam, S.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2024, Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, The Astronomical Journal, 167, 62 (arXiv:2306.06307) [153 citations]

Han, Jiwon Jesse; Dey, Arjun; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Najita, Joan; Schlafly, Edward F.; et al. (incl. A. Anand), 2023, NANCY: Next-generation All-sky Near-infrared Community surveY, ArXiv (arXiv:2306.11784) [4 citations]

Footnotes

1. University Grants Commission, Govt. of India - Junior Research Fellowship ↩

2. Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India ↩

3. an initiative to help poor students in suburban and rural areas of Bihar, India. ↩