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Atul Kedia

Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Physics

Dr. Kedia earned his Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Notre Dame. He conducted postdoctoral research work at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 2022 to 2024 and at North Carolina State University from 2024 to 2026.

Dr. Kedia is an astrophysicist with a broad range of interests in multi-messenger and nuclear astrophysics pertaining to neutron stars. His research interests include nucleosynthesis, multi-messenger astrophysics, gravitational wave studies for neutron star mergers, the nuclear equation of state, and nuclear reaction rates in conducting elemental nucleosynthesis. 

He works on understanding the neutron star postmerger ejecta with a combination of results from numerical relativity-based simulations and analytical solutions, on generating surrogate light curve models for kilonovae resulting from binary neutron star mergers, and conducts nucleosynthetic studies revealing the connections between nuclear reaction rates and heavy element production.

Education

Ph.D.University of Notre Dame2022
M.S.University of Notre Dame2020
B.Tech.Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2016

Publications

  1. Kedia, et al., Correlated and uncorrelated Monte Carlo neutron capture rate variations in weak r-process simulations, Phys. Rev. C 114, 035805 (2026).
  2. Kar, et al., Thermodynamic characteristics of a Fermi gas with an invariant energy scale and its astrophysical implications, Eur. Phys. J. C 86, 958 (2026).
  3. LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA, GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries, Astrophys. J. Lett. 1005, L51 (2026).
  4. LIGO, Virgo & KAGRA, Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 2.5-4.5 M_o Compact Object and a Neutron Star, Astrophys. J. Lett. 970, L34 (2024).
  5. Peng, et al., Kilonova Light-Curve Interpolation with Neural Networks, Phys. Rev. Res. 6, 033078 (2024).
  6. Fryer, et al., The Effect of the Velocity Distribution on Kilonova Emission, Astrophys. J. 961, 9 (2024).
  7. Ristic, et al., Interpolated kilonova spectra models: Examining the effects of a phenomenological, blue component in the fitting of AT2017gfo spectra, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 043106 (2023).
  8. Kedia, et al., Surrogate light curve models for kilonovae with comprehensive wind ejecta outflows and parameter estimation for AT2017gfo, Phys. Rev. Res. 5, 013168 (2023).
  9. Kedia, et al., Binary neutron star mergers as a probe of quark-hadron crossover equations of state, Phys. Rev. D 106, 103027 (2022).
  10. Kusakabe, et al., Distribution function of nuclei from e± scattering in the presence of a strong primordial magnetic field, Phys. Rev. D 104, 123534 (2021).
  11. Kedia, et al., Simulations of multicomponent relativistic thermalization, Phys. Rev. E 103, 032101 (2021).
  12. Mathews, et al, Cosmological solutions to the Lithium problem, JPS Conf. Proc. 31, 011033 (2020).
  13. Sasankan, et al., Analysis of the multicomponent relativistic Boltzmann equation for electron scattering in big bang nucleosynthesis, Phys. Rev. D 101, 123532 (2020).