Aswathi Pampurayath Subhash
- PhD Student
- Australian National University
Aswathi P. S. is a Ph.D. candidate at the Australian National University (ANU), working under the supervision of Dr. Ling Sun. Her research focuses on gravity and extreme matter, with a particular emphasis on gravitational wave astrophysics. Aswathi earned her Integrated Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physics from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India, graduating with first rank and a gold medal.
She began her research by studying Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) stars at finite temperatures, analyzing their observable properties. As a project student at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, she investigated neutron stars with dark matter admixtures, modeling dark matter as a BEC. Her current work explores the formation and dynamics of boson clouds around black holes, and how gravitational waves can be leveraged to detect and characterize these clouds.
Aswathi has experience in numerical modeling, gravitational wave data analysis, and coding in MATLAB and Python. She has contributed to the field with a publication in Physical Review D, based on her work on slowly rotating BEC stars (Title: Rotating Bose Einstein Condensate stars at finite temperature). Her broader research interests encompass compact objects, dark matter candidates, and using multi-messenger astrophysics to test fundamental physics.
Aswathi aims to develop a deeper understanding of extreme astrophysical phenomena through her research, ultimately contributing to advancements in gravitational wave astronomy and fundamental physics.
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