Chandra Shekhar Murmu

ARCO fellow

I am interested in probing the early Universe (epoch of reionization and post-reionization era) using a technique called line-intensity mapping (LIM). This technique can detect the integrated flux from numerous line-emitting sources such as galaxies and the diffuse IGM, and develop a low-resolution map of the Universe, which is useful to understand the Universe at large scales. I work on developing forward models using numerical simulations to predict the observable summary statistics (e.g., Power spectrum and cross-power spectrum), which are relevant for LIM observations such as the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), CO Mapping Array Project (COMAP), SPHEREx,  LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), Square Kilometre Array (SKA), etc. I am also interested in synergy studies with LIM observations.