Contact Information
swara@stsci.eduOffice : S212 Phone: +1-410-338-2427
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I am an instrument scientist for the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) on the James Webb Space Telescope, and I am interested in studying the emission-line galaxies at high redshifts revealed in the grism surveys. I am a member of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope(WFIRST-AFTA) study team at STScI. I am also a member of the science definition team for the Thirty Meter Telescope(TMT ISDT).
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CANDELS is a multi-cycle HST near-infrared treasury survey using the WFC3 instrument.
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GOODS is an HST treasury Survey Program in the optical using the ACS instrument.
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UV UDF is an HST Treasury Survey program in the UV using the WFC3-UVIS detector.
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My primary research interest is in the field of observational cosmology, with focus on various issues related to galaxy formation and evolution. I am a team member of the CANDELS, GOODS, and UVUDF programs which are multi-wavelength, deep survey programs conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope. I use these data for the analysis of galaxy morphology, structural parameters and size evolution in order to understand the physical processes involved in galaxy assembly and growth.