Brief biodata

Dr. Rupjyoti Gogoi obtained her M. Sc. and Ph. D degree from Gauhati University in Physics. Her current research interest is in Astronomy and Astrophysics, particularly Observational Astronomy in infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray range of electromagnetic spectrum. She has been a faculty member at the Department of Physics, Tezpur University since 2011. She is Visiting Associate of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune since 2013. She is member of Executive Council of Astronomical Society of India for the triennium 2022-2025.

Research

Dr. Rupjyoti works on diverse areas of astronomy. She studies interstellar dust in Milky Way and nearby galaxies from observational data. She is also working on Extragalactic astronomy, where she studies structure and evolution of other galaxies. She also has an active team working on Active Galactic Nuclei in collaboration with IUCAA, Pune.

Selected List of Publications

• Anshuman Borgohain, Kanak Saha, Bruce Elmegreen, Rupjyoti Gogoi, Francoise Combes & Shyam N. Tandon, Extended far-ultraviolet emission in distant dwarf galaxies, Nature, Volume 607, Issue 7919 , Pages 459-462 (2022)
• Rukaiya Khatoon, Raj Prince, Zahir Shah, Sunder Sahayanathan, Rupjyoti Gogoi, Temporal and spectral study of PKS 0208−512 during the 2019–2020 flare, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 513, Issue 1 , Pages 611–623 (2022)
• Pranjupriya Goswami, Sunder Sahayanathan, Atreyee Sinha, Rupjyoti Gogoi, Unfolding the X-ray spectral curvature of Mkn 421 for further clues, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 499, Issue 2 , Pages 2094–2103 (2020)
• Sonali Sachdeva, Rupjyoti Gogoi, Kanak Saha, A Kembhavi, S. Raychaudhury, Formation of disc galaxies around z~2, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 487, Issue 2 , Pages 1795-1807 (2019)
• Gautam Saikia, Rupjyoti Gogoi, Ranjan Gupta, Deepak B Vaidya, Modelling the mid-infrared polarization in dust around young stars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 484, Issue 3 , Pages 3582–3589 (2019)