Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune Physics Astronomy Astrophysics

Can you please provide me the details of National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune?

[Kiran Chandar]

The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of India is a premier research institution in India in the field of radio astronomy. It is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

NCRA has an active research program in many areas of Astronomy and Astrophysics, which includes studies of the Sun, Interplanetary scintillations, pulsars, the Interstellar medium, Active galaxies and cosmology and particularly in the specialized field of Radio Astronomy and Radio instrumentation.

NCRA also provides exciting opportunities and challenges in engineering fields such as Analog and Digital Electronics, Signal Processing, Antenna Design, Communication and Software Development.

Research Facilities-

Research facilities of NCRA includes a well-furnished Library both at NCRA and GMRT, Computing Facilities, Radio Physics Laboratory (A joint initiative of NCRA-TIFR and IUCAA) and above all two radio telescopes GMRT and ORT.