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Bio

Dr. Kedia received his PhD in 2022 from the University of Notre Dame. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 2022-2024.

Area(s) of Expertise

Dr. Kedia works on multi-messenger astrophysics involving neutron stars. He studies the production of heavy elements in neutron rich environments of neutron star merger ejecta and the generation of the radioactively powered kilonova emission. He also works on connecting various observations of neutron stars studying gravitational wave, kilonova, and pulsar observations to understand the dynamics and ejecta formation from merging neutron stars and the nuclear equation of state.

Publications

• Computational Workflows for Uncertainty-Quantified Nuclear Reactions: From Nuclear Theory Inputs to Astrophysical Reaction Rates , (2026)
• Astrophysical assumptions and equation of state framework have larger impact on equation of state inference than individual neutron star observations , arXiv (Cornell University) (2024)
• Kilonova light-curve interpolation with neural networks , Physical Review Research (2024)
• The Effect of the Velocity Distribution on Kilonova Emission , The Astrophysical Journal (2024)
• Interpolated kilonova spectra models: Examining the effects of a phenomenological, blue component in the fitting of AT2017gfo spectra , Physical Review Research (2023)
• Surrogate light curve models for kilonovae with comprehensive wind ejecta outflows and parameter estimation for AT2017gfo , Physical Review Research (2023)
• Binary neutron star mergers as a probe of quark-hadron crossover equations of state , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2022)
• The Einstein Toolkit , Zenodo (2022)
• Broad Grid of 2-component kilonova models , Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2021)
• Conformally flat, quasi-circular numerical simulations of the gravitational wave chirp from binary neutron star merger GW170817 , arXiv (Cornell University) (2021)

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