Scientific Research

My research covers oscillatory signals of solar and stellar origin. My PhD and Research Fellowship mainly focussed on Helioseismology, while my Masters research largely looked at Quasi-Periodic Pulsations.

Below are a select few publications I wrote or contributed to, alongside my PhD and Masters theses, and some further info about my career in astrophysics.

Theses

PhD Thesis: A Study of Solar Quasi-Oscillatory Signals

December 2022
[Paper]


Masters Thesis: Investigating the behaviour of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar flares using Empirical Mode Decomposition

September 2018
[Paper]


Publications

Prevalence of non-stationarity in Quasi-Periodic Pulsations (QPPs) associated with M- and X- class solar flares
Mehta, T., Broomhall, A.-M., Hayes, L.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 2022
[Paper]


Reach Out, Touch Space
Mehta, T., McDonald, C., Nealon, B.
Astronomy & Geophysics (A&G), 2022
[Paper]


Cycle dependence of a quasi-biennial variability in the solar interior
Mehta, T., Jain, K., Tripathy, S.C., Keifer, R., Kolotkov, D., Broomhall, A.-M.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 2022
[Paper]


A blueprint of state-of-the-art techniques for detecting quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares
Broomhall, A-M., Davenport, J., Hayes, L., Inglis, A., Kolotkov, D., McLaughlin, J., Mehta, T., Nakariakov, V., Notsu, Y., Pascoe, D., Pugh, C. and Van Doorsselaere, T.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) 2019
[Paper]



Education

PhD in Physics
Supervisors: Dr. Anne-Marie Broomhall
Sep 2018 - December 2022
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Masters (by Research) in Physics
Supervisor: Prof. Valery Nakariakov
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
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Bachelors in Science in Theoretical Physics and Applied Maths

Sep 2014 - Jul 2017
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University Teaching

Senior Graduate Class Teacher
Taught undergraduate students, leading weekly sessions to up to 25 students covering Electricity and Magnetism, Physics Foundations, Classical mechanics, Special Relativity, Thermal Physics, and Quantum phenomena
2018-2021
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