Astrophysics (Theory)

Associate Professor

D03 GF · 1513

Joined: 2019

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

Name	Roll No.	Year Joined	Supervisor	Cosupervisor
Ashique T	222404005	2024	Projjwal Banerjee	—
Mahima Chaudhary	222504002	2025	Projjwal Banerjee	—

Publications

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).

Origin of alpha-poor Very Metal-poor Stars, S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee, The Astrophysical Journal (2025).

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).
Origin of LAMOST J1010+2358 Revisited, S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee, The Open Journal of Astrophysics (2024).
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).
SDSS J0018-0939: A Clear Signature of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Type 1a Supernova, S. K. Jeena and Projjwal Banerjee, The Astrophysical Journal (2024).
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).

On the core-collapse supernova explanation for LAMOST J1010+2358, S. K. Jeena, Projjwal Banerjee, and Alexander Heger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2023).
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).
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).

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).
The production of actinides in neutron star mergers, M.-R. Wu and Projjwal Banerjee, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies Bulletin (2022).

The chemical signature of jet-driven hypernovae, J. J. Grimmett, Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger, Projjwal Banerjee, and Martin Obergaulinger, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2021).
The radioactive nuclei 26Al and 60Fe in the Cosmos and in the solar system, R. Diehl, M. Lugaro, A. Heger, A. Sieverding, X. Tang, K. A. Li, E. T. Li, C. L. Doherty, M. G. H. Krause, A. Wallner, N. Prantzos, H. E. Brinkman, J. W. den Hartogh, B. Wehmeyer, A. Yagüe López, M. M. M. Pleintinger, Projjwal Banerjee, and W. Wang, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (2021).

Dynamical Relics of the Ancient Galactic Halo, Z. Yuan, G. C. Myeong, T. C. Beers, N. W. Evans, Y. S. Lee, Projjwal Banerjee, D. Gudin, K. Hattori, H. Li, T. Matsuno, V. M. Placco, M. C. Smith, D. D. Whitten, and G. Zhao, The Astrophysical Journal (2020).
Neutron Star Mergers as the Main Source of r-process: Natal Kicks and Inside-out Evolution to the Rescue, Projjwal Banerjee, M.-R. Wu, and Z. Yuan, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2020).
Astromers: Nuclear Isomers in Astrophysics, G. W. Misch, S. K. Ghorui, Projjwal Banerjee, Y. Sun, and M. R. Mumpower, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2020).

Finding the Remnants of the Milky Way's Last Neutron Star Mergers, M.-R. Wu, Projjwal Banerjee, B. D. Metzger, G. Martinez-Pinedo, T. Aramaki, E. Burns, C. J. Halye, J. Barnes, and G. Karagiorgi, The Astrophysical Journal (2019).
New s-process Mechanism in Rapidly Rotating Massive Population II Stars, Projjwal Banerjee, A. Heger, and Y.-Z. Qian, The Astrophysical Journal (2019).