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marks papers lead by my mentee.
marks papers where I played a supervisory role to the first author but was not their primary thesis supervisor.

Refereed publications as first author (journal articles only)

Vedantham, H. K. (2020), On the mechanism of polarised metrewave stellar emission, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3373

Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W., Dupuy, T., Best, W. M. J., et al. (2020), Direct Radio Discovery of a Cold Brown Dwarf, The Astrophysical Journal, 903, L33, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/abc256

Vedantham, H. K. (2020), Prospects for radio detection of stellar plasma beams, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 639, L7, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038576

Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W., Tasse, C., Pope, B. J. S., et al. (2020), Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction, Nature Astronomy, 4, 577,
doi:10.1038/s41550-020-1011-9

Vedantham, H. K., & Ravi, V. (2019), Faraday conversion and magneto-ionic variations in fast radio bursts, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485, L78,
doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slz038

Vedantham, H. K., & Phinney, E. S. (2019), Radio wave scattering by circumgalactic cool gas clumps, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483, 971,
doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2948

Vedantham, H. K., de Bruyn, A. G., & Macquart, J.-P. (2017), A Dense Plasma Globule in the Solar Neighborhood, The Astrophysical Journal, 849, L3, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa8f92

Vedantham, H. K., Readhead, A. C. S., Hovatta, T., Koopmans, L. V. E., Pearson, T. J., et al. (2017), The Peculiar Light Curve of J1415+1320: A Case Study in Extreme Scattering Events, The Astrophysical Journal, 845, 90, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa7741

Vedantham, H. K., Readhead, A. C. S., Hovatta, T., Pearson, T. J., Blandford, R. D., et al. (2017), Symmetric Achromatic Variability in Active Galaxies: A Powerful New Gravitational Lensing Probe?, The Astrophysical Journal, 845, 89, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa745c

Vedantham, H. K., Ravi, V., Hallinan, G., & Shannon, R. M. (2016), The Fluence and Distance Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts, The Astrophysical Journal, 830, 75, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/830/2/75

Vedantham, H. K., Ravi, V., Mooley, K., Frail, D., Hallinan, G., et al. (2016), On Associating Fast Radio Bursts with Afterglows, The Astrophysical Journal, 824, L9, doi:10.3847/2041-8205/824/1/L9

Vedantham, H. K., & Koopmans, L. V. E. (2016), Scintillation noise power spectrum and its impact on high-redshift 21-cm observations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458, 3099, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw443

Vedantham, H. K., & Koopmans, L. V. E. (2015), Scintillation noise in widefield radio interferometry, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, 925,
doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1594

Vedantham, H. K., Koopmans, L. V. E., de Bruyn, A. G., Wijnholds, S. J., Brentjens, M., et al. (2015), Lunar occultation of the diffuse radio sky: LOFAR measurements between 35 and 80 MHz, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450, 2291, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv746

Vedantham, H. K., Koopmans, L. V. E., de Bruyn, A. G., Wijnholds, S. J., Ciardi, B., et al. (2014), Chromatic effects in the 21 cm global signal from the cosmic dawn, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437, 1056, doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1878

Vedantham, H., Udaya Shankar, N., & Subrahmanyan, R. (2012), Imaging the Epoch of Reionization: Limitations from Foreground Confusion and Imaging Algorithms, The Astrophysical Journal, 745, 176, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/745/2/176
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Refereed publications with substantial contribution

*†Toet, S., Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W. et al., Coherent low-frequency radio emission from RSCVn systems, To be submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics

*†Davis, I., Vedantham, H. K., Callingham, J. R., Shimwell, T. W. et al., Large closed-field corona of WX UMa evidenced from radioobservations, To be submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics (currently under internal collaboration review).

*†Callingham, J. R., Pope. B. J. S., Feinstein, A. D., Vedantham, H. K., Shimwell, T. W. et al., Low-frequency monitoring of flare star binary CR Draconis: Long-term electron-cyclotron maser emission, Under review with Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020

*†Callingham, J. R., Vedantham, H. K., Shimwell, T. W., Pope, B. J. S. et al., A new class of radio emission from stellar systems, Under review with Nature Astronomy, (2020).

Oosterloo, T. A., Vedantham, H. K., Kutkin, A. M., Adams, E. A. K., Adebahr, B., et al. (2020), Extreme intra-hour variability of the radio source J1402+5347 discovered with Apertif, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 641, L4, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038378

Connor, L., van Leeuwen, J., Oostrum, L. C., Petroff, E., Maan, Y., et al. (2020), A bright, high rotation-measure FRB that skewers the M33 halo, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499, 4716, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3009

Pope, B. J. S., Bedell, M., Callingham, J. R., Vedantham, H. K., Snellen, I. A. G., et al. (2020), No Massive Companion to the Coherent Radio-emitting M Dwarf GJ 1151, The Astrophysical Journal, 890, L19, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab5b99

Ravi, V., Catha, M., D’Addario, L., Djorgovski, S. G., Hallinan, G., et al. (2019), A fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy, Nature, 572, 352, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1389-7

Ravi, V., Vedantham, H., & Phinney, E. S. (2018), La Freccia Rossa: an IR-dark cloud hosting the Milky Way intermediate-mass black hole candidate, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478, L72, doi:10.1093/mnrasl/sly077

Tihomir S. Kostadinov, AnnaCabré, Harish Vedanthamc, Irina Marinov Astrid Bracher et al. (2017), Inter-comparison of phytoplankton functional type phenology metrics derived from ocean color algorithms and Earth System Models, Remote sensing of environment, 190, 1, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.014

Mellema, G., Koopmans, L. V. E., Abdalla, F. A., Bernardi, G., Ciardi, B., et al. (2013), Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn with the Square Kilometre Array, Experimental Astronomy, 36, 235, doi:10.1007/s10686-013-9334-5
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LOFAR Epoch of Reionization collaboration publications

Gehlot, B. K., Mertens, F. G., Koopmans, L. V. E., Offringa, A. R., Shulevski, A., et al. (2020), The AARTFAAC Cosmic Explorer: observations of the 21-cm power spectrum in the EDGES absorption trough, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499, 4158, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3093

Mertens, F. G., Mevius, M., Koopmans, L. V. E., Offringa, A. R., Mellema, G., et al. (2020), Improved upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at z 9.1 from LOFAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493, 1662, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa327

Gehlot, B. K., Mertens, F. G., Koopmans, L. V. E., Brentjens, M. A., Zaroubi, S., et al. (2019), The first power spectrum limit on the 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen during the Cosmic Dawn at z = 20-25 from LOFAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 488, 4271, doi:10.1093/mnras/stz1937

Patil, A. H., Yatawatta, S., Koopmans, L. V. E., de Bruyn, A. G., Brentjens, M. A., et al. (2017), Upper Limits on the 21 cm Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum from One Night with LOFAR, The Astrophysical Journal, 838, 65, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa63e7

Mevius, M., van der Tol, S., Pandey, V. N., Vedantham, H. K., Brentjens, M. A., et al. (2016), Probing ionospheric structures using the LOFAR radio telescope, Radio Science, 51, 927, doi:10.1002/2016RS006028

Jelić, V., de Bruyn, A. G., Pandey, V. N., Mevius, M., Haverkorn, M., et al. (2015), Linear polarization structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium in the 3C 196 field, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 583, A137, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526638

Ciardi, B., Inoue, S., Abdalla, F. B., Asad, K., Bernardi, G., et al. (2015), Simulating the 21 cm forest detectable with LOFAR and SKA in the spectra of high-z GRBs, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453, 101, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1640

Asad, K. M. B., Koopmans, L. V. E., Jelić, V., Pandey, V. N., Ghosh, A., et al. (2015), Polarization leakage in epoch of reionization windows - I. Low Frequency Array observations of the 3C196 field, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451, 3709, doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1107

Patil, A. H., Zaroubi, S., Chapman, E., Jelić, V., Harker, G., et al. (2014), Constraining the epoch of reionization with the variance statistic: simulations of the LOFAR case, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443, 1113, doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1178

Jelić, V., de Bruyn, A. G., Mevius, M., Abdalla, F. B., Asad, K. M. B., et al. (2014), Initial LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows. II. Diffuse polarized emission in the ELAIS-N1 field, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 568, A101, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201423998

Wiersma, R. P. C., Ciardi, B., Thomas, R. M., Harker, G. J. A., Zaroubi, S., et al. (2013), LOFAR insights into the epoch of reionization from the cross-power spectrum of 21 cm emission and galaxies, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432, 2615, doi:10.1093/mnras/stt624

Yatawatta, S., de Bruyn, A. G., Brentjens, M. A., Labropoulos, P., Pandey, V. N., et al. (2013), Initial deep LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows. I. The north celestial pole, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 550, A136, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220874

Ciardi, B., Labropoulos, P., Maselli, A., Thomas, R., Zaroubi, S., et al. (2013), Prospects for detecting the 21 cm forest from the diffuse intergalactic medium with LOFAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 428, 1755, doi:10.1093/mnras/sts156

Offringa, A. R., de Bruyn, A. G., Zaroubi, S., van Diepen, G., Martinez-Ruby, O., et al. (2013), The LOFAR radio environment, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 549, A11,
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220293

Zaroubi, S., de Bruyn, A. G., Harker, G., Thomas, R. M., Labropolous, P., et al. (2012), Imaging neutral hydrogen on large scales during the Epoch of Reionization with LOFAR, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 425, 2964,
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21500.x

Jensen, H., Datta, K. K., Mellema, G., Chapman, E., Abdalla, F. B., et al. (2013), Probing reionization with LOFAR using 21-cm redshift space distortions, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 435, 460, doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1341

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Refereed papers with non-critical contribution

Readhead, A. C. S., Ravi, V., Liodakis, I., Lister, M. L., Singh, V. et al. (2020) The Relativistic Jet Orientation and Host Galaxy of the Peculiar Blazar PKS 1413+135, The Astrophysical Journal (in press), arXiv:2012.04045

Jauncey, D. L., Koay, J. Y., Bignall, H., Macquart, J.-P., Pursimo, T., et al. (2020), Interstellar scintillation, ISS, and intrinsic variability of radio AGN, Advances in Space Research, 65, 756, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2019.05.003

Koay, J. Y., Jauncey, D. L., Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Bignall, H. E., et al. (2019), The presence of interstellar scintillation in the 15 GHz interday variability of 1158 OVRO-monitored blazars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, 5365,
doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2488

Kocz, J., Ravi, V., Catha, M., D’Addario, L., Hallinan, G., et al. (2019), DSA-10: a prototype array for localizing fast radio bursts, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489, 919, doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2219

Corsi, A., Cenko, S. B., Kasliwal, M. M., Quimby, R., Kulkarni, S. R., et al. (2017), iPTF17cw: An Engine-driven Supernova Candidate Discovered Independent of a Gamma-Ray Trigger, The Astrophysical Journal, 847, 54, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa85e5

Bhalerao, V., Kasliwal, M. M., Bhattacharya, D., Corsi, A., Aarthy, E., et al. (2017), A Tale of Two Transients: GW 170104 and GRB 170105A, The Astrophysical Journal, 845, 152, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa81d2

Ravi, V., Shannon, R. M., Bailes, M., Bannister, K., Bhandari, S., et al. (2016), The magnetic field and turbulence of the cosmic web measured using a brilliant fast radio burst, Science, 354, 1249, doi:10.1126/science.aaf6807

Oberoi, D., Matthews, L. D., Cairns, I. H., Emrich, D., Lobzin, V., et al. (2011), First Spectroscopic Imaging Observations of the Sun at Low Radio Frequencies with the Murchison Widefield Array Prototype, The Astrophysical Journal, 728, L27, doi:10.1088/2041-8205/728/2/L27

Koopmans, L., Pritchard, J., Mellema, G., Aguirre, J., Ahn, K., et al. (2015), The Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation with SKA, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14), 1, doi:

Eastwood, M. W., Anderson, M. M., Monroe, R. M., Hallinan, G., Catha, M., et al. (2019), The 21 cm Power Spectrum from the Cosmic Dawn: First Results from the OVRO-LWA, The Astronomical Journal, 158, 84, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab2629

Anderson, M. M., Hallinan, G., Eastwood, M. W., Monroe, R. M., Vedantham, H. K., et al. (2018), A Simultaneous Search for Prompt Radio Emission Associated with the Short GRB 170112A Using the All-sky Imaging Capability of the OVRO-LWA, The Astrophysical Journal, 864, 22, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aad2d7

Eastwood, M. W., Anderson, M. M., Monroe, R. M., Hallinan, G., Barsdell, B. R., et al. (2018), The Radio Sky at Meter Wavelengths: m-mode Analysis Imaging with the OVRO-LWA, The Astronomical Journal, 156, 32, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aac721
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Other peer-reviewed publications (theses and book chapters)

Vedantham, H. K. (2018), Extreme Scattering Events and Symmetric Achromatic Variations, Science with a Next Generation Very Large Array, 517, 491,

Subrahmanyan, R., Shankar, U. N., Pritchard, J., & Vedantham, H. K. (2015), All-sky signals from recombination to reionization with the SKA, Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array (AASKA14), 14,

Vedantham, H. K. (2015), Opening the low frequency window to the high redshift universe, PhD thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Vedantham, H. K. (2009), Design and development of a Ka-band interferometer for cryospheric applications, Masters thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.