Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao

Contact Astronomy & Astrophysics (+91)948-083-6131

Information Raman Research Insitute mayuris@rri.res.in
C.V. Raman Avenue www.mayurisrao.wordpress.com
Sadashivanagar
Bangalore 560080 INDIA

Research Experimental and Observational cosmology – Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB),

Interests CMB spectral distortions, especially those arising in epochs from cosmological recom-
bination through reionization, at decametre to centimeter wavelengths. Readout for
next generation CMB Telescopes with emphasis on Microwave SQUID Multiplexing and
cryogenic detector readout wiring; Low-frequency radio-sky modelling. System science
and radio astronomy with an emphasis on precise calibration of radio-spectrometers,
foreground modelling and separation.

Education The Australian National University, ACT

Ph.D. Astronomy & Astrophysics (September 2017)
• Dissertation Title: On the detection of spectral distortions in the CMB: recom-
bination to reionization.
• Advisors: Frank Briggs (ANU), Ravi Subrahmanyan (RRI)

Visvesvaraya Technological University, INDIA

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication, May 2010
• summa cum laude, University Rank 5

Appointments Oct 2017 – July 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aug 2017 – Present Scientist, Raman Research Institute
Oct 2010 – Jul 2017 Research Associate, Raman Research Institute

Publications Refereed Journals

Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,Silva-Feaver, M., Ali, A. et al.,Simons Observatory Mi-

crowave SQUID Multiplexing Readout: Cryogenic RF Amplifier and Coaxial Chain
Design J Low Temp Phys 199, 807−816 (2020)

Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar Narayana Rao,

Jens Chluba, Modeling the Radio Foreground for detection of spectral distortions from
Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization, ApJ, 2017, 840, 33

Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar Narayana Rao,

Jens Chluba, GMOSS: All-sky model of spectral radio brightness based on physical
components and associated radiative processes, AJ, 2017, 153, 26

Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar Narayana Rao,

Jens Chluba, On the detection of spectral ripples from the Recombination Epoch, 2015,
ApJ, 810, 3

Agaram Raghunathan, Ravi Subrahmanyan,... , Mayuri S Rao, A Floating Octave

Bandwidth Cone-Disc Antenna for Detection of Cosmic Dawn, 2021, IEEE Transac-
tions on Antennas and Propagation, 10.1109/TAP.2021.3069563.

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Jishnu Nambissan T., Ravi Subrahmanyan,... , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,
SARAS 3 CD/EoR radiometer: design and performance of the receiver, 2021, Ex-
perimental Astronomy, 10.1007/s10686-020-09697-2

Girish, B. S., Srivani, K. S., Subrahmanyan, R., ... Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao et
al., SARAS CD/EoR Radiometer: Design and Performance of the Digital Correlation
Spectrometer, 2020, Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 9, 2050006-70

The CMB-S4 Collaboration; : Kevork Abazajian, Graeme E. Addison, ... Mayuri

Sathyanarayana Rao,..et al., CMB-S4: Forecasting Constraints on Primordial Grav-
itational Waves, 2020, submitted to ApJ arXiv:2008.12619

Ali, A.M., Adachi, S., Arnold, K. ...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,..et al. Small Aperture
Telescopes for the Simons Observatory J Low Temp Phys (2020).

Ade, P., Aguirre, J., Ahmed, Z., ...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,.. (246 co-authors) et
al., The Simons Observatory: science goals and forecasts, 2019, JCAP, 2, 056

Lee, A., Abitbol, M. H., Adachi, S.,..Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,.. et al., The Simons
Observatory, 2019, BAAS

Roberts, D. H., Saripalli, L., Wang, K. X., Sathyanarayana Rao, M., et. al, What
Are “X-Shaped” Radio Sources Telling Us? I. Very Large Array Imaging of a Large
Sample of Low Axial Ratio Radio Sources, 2018, ApJ, 852, 47

Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,

et. al, First Results on the Epoch of Reionization from First Light with SARAS 2, ApJ,
2017, 845, L12

Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,

et. al, SARAS 2 constraints on global 21-cm signals from the Epoch of Reionization,
2018, ApJ, 858, 54

Saurabh Singh, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Udaya Shankar, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao,

et. al, SARAS 2: A Spectral Radiometer for probing Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of
Reionization through detection of the global 21 cm signal, 2018, Experimental Astron-
omy, 45, 269

Conference Proceedings

Aritoki Suzuki, Jason R. Stevens,..., Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Recent devel-

opments and optimization of commercially fabricated antenna-coupled transition edge
sensor bolometer detectors for next generation cosmic microwave background polarime-
try experiments, 2020, Proc. SPIE 11453, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared
Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X, 1145324

Hill, C. A., Bruno, S. M. M., Simon, S. M.,...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,.. et al.,

BoloCalc: a sensitivity calculator for the design of Simons Observatory, Millimeter,
Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX,
10708, 1070842, 2018

Crowley, K. T., Simon, S. M.,...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,et al., Studies of systematic

uncertainties for Simons Observatory: detector array effects,Millimeter,Submillimeter,
andFar-InfraredDetectorsandInstrumentationforAstronomyIX,10708,107083Z,2018

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 Zhu, N., Orlowski-Scherer, J. L., Xu, Z.,...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,.. et al., Simons
Observatory large aperture telescope receiver design overview, Millimeter, Submillime-
ter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 10708, 1070829,
2018

Galitzki, N., Ali, A., Arnold, K. S.,...Sathyanarayana Rao, M.,.. et al., The Si-
mons Observatory: instrument overview, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared
Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 10708, 1070804, 2018

Ravi Subrahmanyan, Agaram Raghunathan, N. Udaya Shankar, Saurabh Singh, Sharath

Puthige, Nivedita Mahesh, Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao, Wideband Antennas for
Precision Spectral Radiometers for Cosmology, ICEAA-IEEE APWC 2016

Subrahmanyan, R., Shankar Narayana Rao, U., Sathyanarayana Rao, M., & Singh,
S., Detecting signatures of cosmological recombination and reionization in the cosmic
radio background, IAU General Assembly 2015, 22, 2250805

Agaram Raghunathan, Udaya Shankar Narayana Rao, Mayuri Sathyanarayana

Rao, Ravi Subrahmanyan, Design of frequency independent profiled discone antenna
for detecting spectral ripples from the epoch of recombination, ICEAA-IEEE APWC
2015

R. Subrahmanyan, N. U. Shankar, N. Patra, M. S. Rao, N. Mahesh and A. Raghu-

nathan, Signatures in the cosmic radio background from spin flip and recombination
in cosmological hydrogen, General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS),
2014 XXXIth URSI, Beijing, 2014, pp. 1-4.

Scientific March 2019 – PI of PRATUSH : Probing ReionizATion of the Universe using

Research present Signal from Hydrogen. A proposed lunar payload for detecting the
Experience global 21-cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization.
(Funded for pre-project studies by ISRO).
Co-PIs: Saurabh Singh, Jishnu Nambissan
Raman Research Institute
Oct 2017– Readout for next generation CMB telescopes, emphasis on Mi-
present crowave SQUID Multiplexing
Advisor : Akito Kusaka
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2012 – Sept On the detection of spectral distortions in the CMB: recombination
2017 to reionization
Advisors: Ravi Subrahmanyan; Frank Briggs
Raman Research Institute; Australian National University
2011–2012 Investigate the power density spectra and kHz QPOs of some
LMXBs against their broad band spectral characteristics
Advisor : Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute)
2010 Jun – Design of an ultra wide-band antenna operating between 30 MHz
2011 to 860 MHz, for deployment in an aperture array
Advisor : Avinash Deshpande, Ravi Subrahmanyan, N Udaya
Shankar (Raman Research Institute)
2010 Jan – Structural Health Monitoring System: Implementation of the soft-
2010 Jun ware algorithm in VHDL and realization on an FPGA
Advisor : J. Jayanthi; Indumathi G
National Aerospace Laboratories; CMR Institute of Technology

Awards and PRATUSH - Grant of INR 50,06,000 (2018-2021) from Indian Space Research Orga-
Grants

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 nization for pre-project studies, Announcement of Opportunity for science payloads in
2018.

Rising Stars in Physics, 2018 – MIT, Heising-Simons Foundation.

(http://physicsrisingstars.mit.edu/rising-stars-physics-workshops)

Peter McGregor Scholarship (2016) for excellence in research in the Research School of
Astronomy & Astrophysics (Australian National University) instrumentation program,
or excellence in research that has a substantial instrumentation component

Australian Academy of Science nominee to Lindau Nobel Laureate’s meeting 2016

RSAA overseas travel grant (2015) for participation in the CMB spectral distortions
workshop, KICP, University of Chicago

Collaborations International Astronomical Union, Junior Member, June 2020 – present

and Professional
Societies Simons Observatory, Associate member March 2021 – present,
Junior Member, October 2017 – Feb 2021

CMB-S4, Junior Member, 2019 – present

Observing Time VLA Semester 15A

Awarded Astrophysics of the 2p-2s fine structure line of Hydrogen (PI)
ATCA Semester 2014OCT
Astrophysics of the 2p-2s fine structure line of Hydrogen (PI)
VLA Semester 16A, 16B
Probing the History of Black Hole Spin Orientations with Radio
Galaxies
LCO Semester 16B
Probing the History of Black Hole Spin Orientations with Radio
Galaxies (PI)

Selected Talks Tackling foregrounds: Modeling and separation for 21–cm cosmology, Presidency Uni-
versity (December 2017) – Invited talk

Erasing foregrounds for EoR science with SKA – Science for the SKA Generation
meeting (November 2016)

Outrigger antennas for Global EoR with SKA - A dual role for SKA – Science for the
SKA Generation meeting (November 2016)

APSERa - Array of Precision Spectrometers for the Epoch of RecombinAtion, CMB

spectral distortions from cosmic baryon evolution, Raman Research Institute (July
2016)

On the detection of spectral ripples from the Recombination Epoch, National Radio
Astronomy Observatory, Socorro (July 2015)

On the detection of spectral ripples from the Recombination Epoch, Neighborhood as-
tronomy meeting, Raman Research Institute (June 2015)

The hidden message from the first atoms, Mt.Stromlo Christmas seminars, The Aus-

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 tralian National University, Awarded best science talk (November 2014)

On the detection of spectral ripples from the Recombination Epoch Student seminars,
The Australian National University, Awarded best talk (June 2014)

Investigation of kHz QPOs of some LMXBs against their broad band spectral charac-
teristics Raman Research Institute (October 2012)

Selected B-modes from space workshop, University of California, Berkeley (December 2017)
Conferences
Science for the SKA Generation meeting, Goa (November 2016)

CMB spectral distortions from cosmic baryon evolution, Raman Research Institute
(July 2016)

Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, 2016, Poster: Modelling the radio fore-
ground for detection of spectral distortions from the Epoch of Reionization

CMB spectral distortions workshop, KICP Chicago, 2015

CAASTRO annual retreat, 2014, Poster: Signals from the epoch of RECOMBINATION
- best student poster

Software tools Python, C, C++, IDL, HEALPix, Common Astronomy Software Applications
and packages (CASA) MIRIAD radio astronomy package, Solidworks, WIPL-D (Electromagnetic
simulation software)

Outreach Founding member of the Hands-On-Learning Initiative. HOLI is an initiative to bring

hands-on learning using everyday objects, particularly into public schools and low-
income communities . HOLI promotes a spirit of inquiry by reaching out to audiences
through workshops, street performances and podcasts in English and vernacular lan-
guages in India.

Science mentor at the Notebook Drive, IISc, Bangalore. The science mentorship pro-
gram entails one-on-one interactions with children from public schools in Bangalore,
India with an aim to encourage hands-on learning and continuing education in STEM
fields.

Astronomy outreach at RSAA, Mt.Stromlo. I volunteered to engage the public in

stargazing at Mt. Stromlo Observatory.

References Ravi Subrahmanyan, CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science, ravi.subrahmanyan@csiro.au

Akito Kusaka, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, akusaka@lbl.gov

Zeeshan Ahmed, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, zeesh@slac.stanford.edu

Jens Chluba, University of Manchester, jens.chluba@manchester.ac.uk

Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University, staggs@Princeton.EDU

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