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On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 19:30:56 GMT, alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com
(Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote:

Odia scientist does what Einstein did not hope to achieve

By Hemant Kumar Rout, Express News Service
The New Indian Express, newindianexpress.com
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

[Caption] Kailash Chandra Sahu

Bhuvaneshwar: In a revolutionary breakthrough in the
field of gravitational deflection, a group of astronomers
led by Odia scientist Kailash Chandra Sahu has
successfully validated Albert Einstein's general theory
of relativity by measuring mass of an isolate object in
the galaxy.

Though Einstein had provided first evidence of the theory
using the effect of the deflection of light from a
background star by the gravitational field of the Sun, he
was then pessimistic about its real time application and
maintained that there is no hope to observe the
phenomenon directly.

The scientists and researchers from the US-based Space
Telescope Science Institute (STSI) have finally been able
to see this asymmetric phenomenon in action in a star
other than Sun by using the superior angular resolution
of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Sahu and his team applied the concept to a white dwarf
Stein 2051 B which crossed close in front of a more
distant normal star. They measured the tiny shifts in the
apparent position of the background star through
astrometric micro-lensing with the help of HST. The
apparent motion matched the prediction of general
relativity and it helped them determine the mass of the
white dwarf. A native of nondescript coastal village
Bellagam in Ganjam district, Sahu (57), fondly known as
planet hunter, was a gold medalist in Physics from
Berhampur University in 1977.

He did his PhD in Astronomy from Gujarat University in
1985 and researched at Institute of Astrophysics in Paris
and Spain before joining STSI in 1995. The noted
scientist was the youngest among his five brothers.

One of Sahu's favourite works was to search for exo-
planets in the galactic bulge through a large HST
programme Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet
Search (SWEEPS). The programme involved monitoring of
about 300,000 stars towards the galactic bulge using an
advanced camera system on board HST, to search for
transiting extra-solar planets. This led to the discovery
of 16 planets, including five ultra-short-period planets
in 2006.

Continues at:

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2017/jun/20/odia-scientist-does-what-einstein-did-not-hope-to-achieve-1618757.html

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