Priyanka Chakraborty

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Assistant professor of Astrophysics

University of Arkansas

Also affiliated: Smithsonian Institution (2024); University of Kentucky (2018–2022); Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (2023–2024); Presidency University (2018); Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (2022–2026)

14 h-index 60 pubs 625 cited

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Priyanka Chakraborty is an assistant professor of Astrophysics at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her research focuses on astrophysical phenomena and the development of observational tools. Chakraborty has contributed to studies examining the mass-metallicity relation in the early universe, utilizing data from instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST/NIRSpec). She is also involved in the development of software for astronomical observations, including the Line Emission Mapper (LEM) and Cloudy, which probe the physics of cosmic ecosystems. Her earlier work includes research on materials science, specifically investigating the properties of sol-gel indium tin oxide films and porous silica coatings. Chakraborty has a publication record of 76 articles and a citation count of 1,264, with an h-index of 16. She has a significant collaboration history with Arnab Sarkar at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, with whom she shares 25 publications.

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h-index: 14
Publications: 60
Citations: 625

Positions

Assistant professor of Astrophysics 2025–present

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Physics ORCID
Astrophysicist 2024–2025

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian ORCID
Postdoctoral researcher 2021–2024

Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian ORCID

Selected Publications

Rubin J122659.4+090236: An Extremely Low Surface Brightness Galaxy Candidate Discovered in the Rubin LSST Early Data Preview 2 (2026)

arXiv (Cornell University) DOI OpenAlex
XRISM Reveals a Kinematically Coherent Core System of the Nearby Cool-Core Cluster Abell 2199 (2026)

arXiv (Cornell University) OpenAlex
XRISM Reveals a Kinematically Coherent Core System of the Nearby Cool-Core Cluster Abell 2199 (2026)

arXiv (Cornell University) DOI OpenAlex
Swift J2037.2+4151: An absorbed symbiotic X-ray binary in the Galactic plane (2026)

Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) DOI OpenAlex
Metallicity Gradients in Modern Cosmological Simulations. II. The Role of Bursty versus Smooth Feedback at High Redshift (2026)

The Astrophysical Journal 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Detection of new galaxy candidates at <i>z</i> &gt; 11 in the JADES field using <i>JWST</i> NIRCam (2025)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society DOI OpenAlex