Projjwal Banerjee

Projjwal Banerjee

Projjwal Banerjee

Associate Professor

IIT Email
D03 GF · 1513

Joined: 2019

Research: Theoretical astrophyics; stellar evolution; galactic chemical evolution; big bang nucleosynthesis

Current Group Members

  • Ashique T PhD Student joined 2024
  • Mahima Chaudhary PhD Student joined 2025

Publications (With IIT Palakkad affiliation)

  • HR-GO. II. Chemical Abundances of Low-E Retrograde Dynamically Tagged Groups: Revealing Thamnos as a Very Metal-poor Substructure
    Renjing Xie, Zhen Yuan, Haining Li, Tadafumi Matsuno, Nicolas F. Martin, Ruizhi Zhang, Zhiqiang Yan, Federico Sestito, Guillaume F. Thomas, Projjwal Banerjee, Ruizheng Jiang, Linda Lombardo, David S. Aguado, Kohei Hattori, Gang Zhao
    The Astrophysical Journal (2026) · DOI
  • Origin of alpha-poor Very Metal-poor Stars
    S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee
    The Astrophysical Journal (2025) · DOI
  • HR-GO-I. Comprehensive NLTE abundance analysis of the Cetus stream
    T. M. Sitnova, Z. Yuan, T. Matsuno, L. I. Mashonkina, S. A. Alexeeva, E. Holmbeck, F. Sestito, L. Lombardo, Projjwal Banerjee, N. F. Martin, F. Jiang
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024) · DOI
  • Origin of LAMOST J1010+2358 Revisited
    S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee
    The Open Journal of Astrophysics (2024) · DOI
  • Can Supernovae from Runaway Stars Mimic the Signs of Absorbing 'Supervirial' Gas?
    M. S. Bisht, Projjwal Banerjee, B. B. Nath, and Y. Shchekinov
    The Astrophysical Journal (2024) · DOI
  • SDSS J0018-0939: A Clear Signature of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Type 1a Supernova
    S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee
    The Astrophysical Journal (2024) · DOI
  • Stars and stellar populations in Milky Way and the nearby galaxies
    T. Sivarani, Smitha Subramanian, Avrajit Bandyopadhyay, Projjwal Banerjee, Souradeep Bhattacharya, Samyaday Choudhury, Soumavo Ghosh, B. P. Hema, Chanda Jog, Ananda Hota, Yogesh Joshi, Drisya Karinkuzhi, Chandreyee Maitra, Khyati Malhan, Prasanta Kumar Nayak, Gajendra Pandey, Eswar Reddy, Suchira Sarkar, Mahavir Sharma, Gaurav Singh, Kuldeep Verma, and Bharat Kumar Yerra
    Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (2024) · DOI
  • The Pristine survey - XXII. A serendipitous discovery of an extremely Li-rich very metal-poor giant and a new method of 6Li/7Li isotope measurement
    T. M. Sitnova, T. Matsuno, Z. Yuan, N. F. Martin, Projjwal Banerjee, F. Sestito, K. A. Venn, and J. I. Gonzalez Hernandez
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023) · DOI
  • Rapidly rotating massive Population III stars: a solution for high carbon enrichment in CEMP-no stars
    S. K. Jeena, Projjwal Banerjee, Gen Chiaki, and Alexander Heger
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023) · DOI
  • Constraints on r-process nucleosynthesis from 129I and 247Cm in the early Solar system
    Projjwal Banerjee, Meng-Ru Wu, and Jeena S. K.
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2022) · DOI
  • The production of actinides in neutron star mergers
    M.-R. Wu and Projjwal Banerjee
    Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies Bulletin (2022) · DOI