Manasvita Joshi

Research Scientist, Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences

Manasvita Joshi develops models to understand the emission from the jets of some of the most energetic and enigmatic phenomena in the Universe, called Blazars. They are nature’s laboratory of particle acceleration to energies unachievable by particle accelerator here on Earth. Even though we have known of their existence for more than sixty years there are unsolved problems associated with blazar jet emission physics that a comprehensive and sophisticated theoretical understanding is required to investigate the dynamics and nature of such outflows. Her work has extensively contributed to this aspect of blazar physics. She has developed a time-dependent leptonic jet model, called MUZORF, that is capable of calculating a blazar’s jet emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and show its spectral evolution with time. Joshi performs reverse engineering on the observed data using MUZORF to decipher the physics behind the creation of the observed emission and constrain the parameter space of key physical parameters responsible for the emission.