Omkar Bait

Employment

• National Radio Astronomy Observatory Postdoc (CosmicAI Fellow)
  2025 - Present
• SKA Observatory Postdoctoral Researcher
  2024 - 2025
• Université de Genève Observatoire Astronomique Post-doctoral researcher
  2021 - 2024

Education

• National Centre for Radio Astrophysics PhD
  2014 - 2020
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Master of Science
  2011 - 2013
• University of Mumbai Bachelors of Science
  2008 - 2011

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (50)

• A Classifier Framework for ALMA Bandpass Calibration Anomalies
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• Investigating the ionization mechanisms powering the extreme emission lines in metal-poor galaxies
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• JWST Reveals Compact Nuclear Starbursts Masquerading as AGNs in Metal-Poor Dwarfs: Where Are the Accreting Intermediate-Mass Black Holes?
  arXiv e-prints 2026
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• Radio spectral energy distribution of low-z metal-poor extreme starburst galaxies: novel insights on the escape of ionizing photons
  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2026 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stag492
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• The Lyα and Continuum Origins Survey. II. The Connection between the Escape of Ionizing Radiation and Lyα Halos in Star-forming Galaxies
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae36a8
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• SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
  The Open Journal of Astrophysics 2026 DOI: 10.33232/001c.157763
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• Probing the Nature of Lyman Continuum Emitting and Low-metallicity Galaxies Using the SKA
  Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.26355
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• Source Finding and Characterisation for SKAO Science
  Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA II 2026 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2607.03736
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• Power-law Emission-line Wings and Radiation-driven Superwinds in Local Lyman Continuum Emitters
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae0e0a
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• Examining vision foundation models for classification and detection in optical and radio astronomy
  Astronomy and Astrophysics 2025 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202553691
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• Square Kilometre Array Science Data Challenge 3a: foreground removal for an EoR experiment
  A. Bonaldi, Philippa Hartley, R Braun

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  • S. J. D. Purser
  • Anshuman Acharya
  • Kyungjin Ahn
  • Miguel Aparicio Resco
  • Omkar Bait
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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1466
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• Uncovering the Ionizing Sources in Metal Poor Galaxies: UV Spectroscopy of an X-ray Observed Sample
  HST Proposal 2025
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• Power-law Emission-line Wings and Radiation-Driven Superwinds in Local Lyman Continuum Emitters
  arXiv e-prints 2025
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• SKA-Low simulations for a cosmic dawn/epoch of reionisation deep field
  arXiv e-prints 2025
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• The Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey: The Roles of Stellar Feedback and Interstellar Medium Geometry in LyC Escape
  Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Alberto Saldana-Lopez +30 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc305
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• Jet-mode Feedback in NGC 5972: Insights from Resolved MUSE, GMRT, and VLA Observations
  Arshi Ali, Biny Sebastian, Darshan Kakkad +9 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc38d
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• The Effect of Radiation and Supernovae Feedback on LyC Escape in Local Star-forming Galaxies
  Cody Carr, Renyue Cen, Claudia M. Scarlata +27 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adb72f
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• The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey II: the uneventful journey of escaping Ly$α$ and ionizing radiation through the neutral ISM and CGM of galaxies
  arXiv e-prints 2025
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• Jet-mode feedback in NGC 5972: insights from resolved MUSE, GMRT and VLA observations
  arXiv e-prints 2025
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• Local Analogs of JWST's high-z AGN: Uncovering a deeply embedded IMBH in a compact metal poor dwarf
  JWST Proposal. Cycle 4 2025
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