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Galaxy Evolution, AGN, ISM, Integral Field Spectroscopy, Astronomical Instrumentation

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University of Hertfordshire: Hatfield, GB

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University of Hertfordshire

Space Telescope Science Institute: Baltimore, MD, US

2022-01-03 to present | STScI fellow
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Darshan Kakkad

University of Oxford: Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

2020-10-01 to 2021-10-31 | Postdoctoral fellow (ESO-fellowship secondment) (Department of Physics)
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European Southern Observatory: Santiago, CL

2017-10-01 to 2020-09-30 | ESO Fellow (Department of Science)
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European Southern Observatory: Garching bei München, DE

2014-09-01 to 2017-08-31 | PhD student (Department of Science)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Munich, DE

2014-09-01 to 2017-08-13 | PhD in Astrophysics (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics)
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

2012-07-21 to 2014-07-17 | Master of Science in Physics (Department of Physics)
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University of Delhi: New Delhi, Delhi, IN

2009-07-20 to 2012-06-30 | Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Physics (Department of Physics)
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Indian Institute of Science: Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

2009-05-01 | 5-year scholarship to pursue BSc. and MSc. in basic sciences and annual summer research grants
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Funding (4)

Science Support Discretionary Fund

2020-01 to 2020-12 | Grant
European Southern Observatory (Garching, Bayern, DE)
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Darshan Kakkad

Science Support Discretionary Fund

2019-04 to 2019-09 | Grant
European Southern Observatory (Garching, Bayern, DE)
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Darshan Kakkad

Science Support Discretionary Fund

2018-05 to 2018-08 | Grant
European Southern Observatory (Garching, Bayern, DE)
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Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana

2009-05 to 2014-04 | Grant
Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore, Karnataka, IN)
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Works (29)

A Multiwavelength Investigation of Spiral Structures in z > 1 Galaxies with JWST

Astrophysical Journal Letters
2025-02-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ada958
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Contributors: Boris S. Kalita; Si-Yue Yu; John D. Silverman; Emanuele Daddi; Luis C. Ho; Andreas L. Faisst; Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky; Annagrazia Puglisi; Simon Birrer; Daichi Kashino et al.
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University of Hertfordshire

Clumps as multiscale structures in cosmic noon galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2025-01-30 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2781
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Contributors: Boris S Kalita; Tomoko L Suzuki; Daichi Kashino; John D Silverman; Emanuele Daddi; Luis C Ho; Xuheng Ding; Wilfried Mercier; Andreas L Faisst; Kartik Sheth et al.
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MUSE-NFM OBSERVATIONS OF THE CIRCINUS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS

2024-12-15 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.69646/aob104p169
Contributors: Sladjana Knežević; Darshan Kakkad; Marko Stalevski; Makoto Kishimoto; Daniel Asmus; Frédéric P. A. Vogt
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Shocks and Star Formation in NGC 1266 with Gemini-NIFS

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad793a
Contributors: Justin Atsushi Otter; Katherine Alatalo; Kate Rowlands; Richard M. McDermid; Timothy A. Davis; Christoph Federrath; K. Decker French; Timothy Heckman; Patrick Ogle; Darshan Kakkad et al.
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Spatially–resolved gas-phase metallicity in Seyfert galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2024-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2263
Contributors: Mark Armah; Rogério Riffel; L G Dahmer-Hahn; R I Davies; O L Dors; Darshan Kakkad; Rogemar A Riffel; A Rodríguez-Ardila; D Ruschel-Dutra; T Storchi-Bergmann
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The Quasar Feedback Survey: characterizing CO excitation in quasar host galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-11-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3133
Contributors: S J Molyneux; G Calistro Rivera; C De Breuck; C M Harrison; V Mainieri; A Lundgren; D Kakkad; C Circosta; A Girdhar; T Costa et al.
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Quasar Feedback Survey: molecular gas affected by central outflows and by ~10 kpc radio lobes reveal dual feedback effects in ‘radio quiet’ quasars

2023-11-08 | Other
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3453
Contributors: Aishwarya Girdhar; Silpa Sasikumar; Stephen Molyneux; Vincenzo Mainieri; Roman Fernández Aranda; Marina Bianchin; Darshan Kakkad; Giacomo Venturi; Dipanjan Mukherjee; Samuel Ward et al.
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SUPER VII. morphology and kinematics of H α emission in AGN host galaxies at cosmic noon using SINFONI

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-02-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad439
Contributors: D Kakkad; V Mainieri; G Vietri; I Lamperti; S Carniani; G Cresci; C Harrison; A Marconi; M Bischetti; C Cicone et al.
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Dissecting the active galactic nucleus in Circinus – IV. MUSE-NFM observations unveil a tuning-fork ionized outflow morphology

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-01-17 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3827
Contributors: D Kakkad; M Stalevski; M Kishimoto; S Knežević; D Asmus; F P A Vogt
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UGC 4211: A Confirmed Dual Active Galactic Nucleus in the Local Universe at 230 pc Nuclear Separation

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2023-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aca8f0
Contributors: Michael J. Koss; Ezequiel Treister; Darshan Kakkad; J. Andrew Casey-Clyde; Taiki Kawamuro; Jonathan Williams; Adi Foord; Benny Trakhtenbrot; Franz E. Bauer; George C. Privon et al.
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BASS XXXI: Outflow scaling relations in low redshift X-ray AGN host galaxies with MUSE

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2022-02-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac103
Contributors: D Kakkad; E Sani; A F Rojas; Nicolas D Mallmann; S Veilleux; Franz E Bauer; F Ricci; R Mushotzky; M Koss; C Ricci et al.
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SUPER

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141363
Contributors: I. Lamperti; C. M. Harrison; V. Mainieri; D. Kakkad; M. Perna; C. Circosta; J. Scholtz; S. Carniani; C. Cicone; D. M. Alexander et al.
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SUPER

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2021-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141611
Contributors: C. Cicone; V. Mainieri; C. Circosta; D. Kakkad; G. Vietri; M. Perna; M. Bischetti; S. Carniani; G. Cresci; C. Harrison et al.
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A giant molecular halo around a z~2 quasar (SUPER VI)

2021-09-06 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:2109.02269v1
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SUPER V. ALMA continuum observations of z~2 AGN and the elusive evidence of outflows influencing star formation

2021-09-06 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:2109.02674v1
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Darshan Kakkad

SUPER

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039136
Contributors: G. Vietri; V. Mainieri; D. Kakkad; H. Netzer; M. Perna; C. Circosta; C. M. Harrison; L. Zappacosta; B. Husemann; P. Padovani et al.
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HARMONI: Characterising the line-spread-function with a tunable Fabry-Pérot etalon

SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation
2020-12-13 | Conference paper
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Darshan Kakkad

SUPER

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038551
Part of ISSN: 0004-6361
Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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SUPER III. Broad Line Region properties of AGN at z$\sim$2

2020-10-15 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:2010.07443v1
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Darshan Kakkad

KASHz: No evidence for ionised outflows instantaneously suppressing star formation in moderate luminosity AGN at z ∼ 1.4–2.6

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa030
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
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BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey – XIX. Type 1 versus type 2 AGN dichotomy from the point of view of ionized outflows

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2020-02-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3386
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
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Darshan Kakkad

The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- XVIII. Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the X-rays

2019-12-05 | Preprint
ARXIV: arXiv:1912.02837v1
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Darshan Kakkad

SUPER

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2018-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833520
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Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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Spatially resolved electron density in the narrow line region of z < 0.02 radio AGNs

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2018-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832790
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Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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AGN outflows and feedback twenty years on

Nature Astronomy
2018-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-018-0403-6
Part of ISSN: 2397-3366
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Darshan Kakkad

ALMA observations of cold molecular gas in AGN hosts at z ∼ 1.5 – evidence of AGN feedback?

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2017-07-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx726
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
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Darshan Kakkad

Large-scale outflows in luminous QSOs revisited

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2016-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527992
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Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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Darshan Kakkad

Tracing outflows in the AGN forbidden region with SINFONI

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2016-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527968
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Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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Darshan Kakkad

A fast ionised wind in a star-forming quasar system atz~ 1.5 resolved through adaptive optics assisted near-infrared data

Astronomy & Astrophysics
2016-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527900
Part of ISSN: 0004-6361
Part of ISSN: 1432-0746
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Darshan Kakkad
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