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Indranil Banik is a British astrophysicist and postdoc at the Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth.[1]
Education
editIndranil Banik was an undergraduate student at Trinity College, Cambridge (MSc) and a graduate student at the University of Saint Andrews. He held postdoctoral appointments at the Universities of Bonn and Saint Andrews, before moving to Portsmouth.[2]
Career
editHis fields of specialty include the alternative to dark matter known as Modified Newtonian Dynamics, galaxy dynamics and evolution, the dynamics of wide binary stars, and cosmological research into the Hubble tension.[3][4]
Known in the field of MOND for his research into its prediction that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies had a past close flyby, Banik conducted detailed simulations of this flyby.[5] The results showed this to be a promising explanation for the planes of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way and Andromeda.[6] Banik led a detailed study that used the dynamics of wide binary stars to test MOND.[7][8]
The results disproved MOND at overwhelming significance, in line with other studies. Banik is also known in cosmology for his pioneering investigations into the Hubble tension.[9] He argues this is related to our location within a large underdensity or void. This approach achieved an important success with the successful prediction of the bulk flow curve, a measure of the velocity field in the local Universe.[10][11]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Indranil Banik | Speaker » IAI TV". iai.tv.
- ^ "Indranil Banik | North East Bylines". northeastbylines.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "The MOND alternative to dark matter is wrong | Indranil Banik". IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks. 2023-11-21. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/513/1/129/6549565
- ^ "A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/3/4573/7342478. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Desmond, Indranil Banik & Harry (2024-06-06). "With bad news from Cassini, is dark matter's main rival theory dead?". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
- ^ https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/499/2/2845/5939857
- ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/3/4388/7337338. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ #author.fullName}. "We live in a cosmic void so empty that it breaks the laws of cosmology". New Scientist. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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