Varun Bhalerao

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Professor
  2026 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Associate Professor
  2021 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Assistant Professor
  2017 - 2021
• IUCAA
  2012 - 2017

Education

• Caltech PhD
  2006 - 2012

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (147)

• Subluminous Type IIP SN 2024abfl as a Result of a Significantly Low-energy Fe-core Collapse
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae75dd
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• ‘Bursts, beats, and beyond’: uncovering the landscape from accretion to ignition of 4U 1728–34 using AstroSat
  Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-025-10124-1
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• GRB 230204B: GIT Discovery of a Fast Fading Afterglow Associated with an Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst from a Massive Star Progenitor
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae459f
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• LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Neutron Star Merger Candidate S250206dm: Zwicky Transient Facility Observations
  \pasp 2026 DOI: 10.1088/1538-3873/ae4539
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• GRB 250704B: An Off-axis Short GRB with a Long-lived Afterglow Plateau
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a20
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• The Jetted Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022cmc: Investigating Connections to the Optical Tidal Disruption Event Population and Spectral Subclasses through Late-time Follow-up
  \apj 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1838
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• Characterizing EP241107a: multiwavelength observations of an Einstein Probe-detected fast X-ray transient
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf2062
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• ZTF25abjmnps (AT2025ulz) and S250818k: A Candidate Superkilonova from a Subthreshold Subsolar Gravitational-wave Trigger
  \apjl 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae2000
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• Development of a Compton imager setup
  Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s12036-025-10110-7
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• Challenging Classical Paradigms: Recurrent Nova M31N 2017-01e, a BeWD System in M31?
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adf843
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