Past Member
Kailash Sahu
Funding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation
Affiliation
Natural Sciences
Field of Study
Astrophysics
Website
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Kailash Sahu's research efforts have focused on applying microlensing, transit, and relativistic deflection techniques to study exoplanets, nearby stars, and black holes. He reported the first unambiguous detection of a stellar-mass black hole, and measured its mass, distance and transverse velocity.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Natural Sciences
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Degrees
Physical Research Laboratory, India
Ph.D.
1985
Honors
2007
STScI Outstanding Achievement award
2006
Certificate of Excellence for Fast Recovery of HST