Malhar Kendurkar
Prince George Astronomical Observatory
Founder and Principal Investigator,
Global Supernova Search Team
Global Supernova Search Team (GSNST) was started in August 2018. In the first year of the team, we discovered 3 Supernovae. The next year 2019 we discovered 10. Remarkably in 2020 we discovered 94 Transients, out of which 3 were Long Gamma Ray Bursts, 2 were Novae and 4 were Active Galactic Nuclei.
Going forward in 2021 along with the research team GSNST, we started another research project in studying and searching for Variable Stars and Young Stellar Objects in our Milky Way Galaxy.
For 2021 we plan tp secure funding to set up 6 new robotic telescopes in Northern British Columbia to search for Astronomical Transients. These 6 robotic telescopes will be the first telescopes in Canada dedicated only to search for Astronomical Transients.
Malhar R. Kendurkar is a student of Physics and Mathematics majors, living in Prince George, BC, Canada. He is President of Prince George Astronomical Society and Principal Investigator of the Global Super Nova Search Team. He has been researching Sky Surveys to search for Astronomical Transients since 2017. and has been involved in international projects like the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to search and follow up on Astronomical Transients.