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Research Staff

Kishalay De, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Center for Computational Astrophysics

Website
dekishalay.github.io

Publications

Discovery of quasar variability and early accretion disk signatures at cosmic dawn

Nature Astronomy, arXiv:2605.00978, June 2026

Gene C.-K. Leung, Anna-Christina Eilers, Christos Panagiotou, Julien Wolf, et al.

The Rise of the Black Hole X-Ray Binary AT 2019wey Observed with TESS

Research Notes of the AAS, arXiv:2603.24683, April 2026

Alyana Jusino, Kishalay De, and Andrea Antoni

SPHEREx as a Frontier for Infrared Transients: Classification of New Galactic FU Ori Outbursts and Classical Novae

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, arXiv:2602.07129, March 2026

Viraj R. Karambelkar, Kishalay De, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, J.-L. Sokoloski, Danielle Frostig, and Julianne J. Dalcanton

AT2019cmw: a highly luminous, cooling featureless TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, arXiv:2507.07380, March 2026

Jacob L. Wise, Daniel A. Perley, Nikhil Sarin, Tatsuya Matsumoto, et al.

Featuring Kishalay De

Caught in the Act: Astronomers Watch a Vanishing Star Turn Into a Black Hole

Events

Computational Astrophysics

Uncovering Dust Enshrouded Cataclysms Toward a Census of Stellar and Black Hole Evolution

Colloquium

February 23, 2024

3–4 p.m. ET

Speaker

Kishalay De

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