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20122024
most citedIn-orbit Calibrations of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope

218 citations · 627 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.IM2024

A multi-functional fiber positioning system for Extremely Large Telescopes

Manjunath Bestha, T. Sivarani, Arun Surya +7

We present a conceptual design for a fiber positioning system for multi-object high-resolution spectroscopy, designed to be compatible with the upcoming large telescopes with a wid…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Atmospheric dispersion corrector for a multi-object spectroscopic mode of HROS-TMT

Manjunath Bestha, Amirul Hasan, Devika Divakar +6

Highly multiplexed spectroscopic surveys have changed the astronomy landscape in recent years. However, these surveys are limited to low and medium spectral resolution. High spectr…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 7 cited

In orbit performance of UVIT over the 5 years

S. K. Ghosh, P. Joseph, A. Kumar +21

Over the last 5 years, UVIT has completed observations of more than 500 proposals with ~ 800 unique pointings. In addition, regular planned monitoring observations have been made a…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 150 cited

Additional Calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope on board AstroSat

S. N. Tandon, J. Postma, P. Joseph +20

Results of the initial calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) were reported earlier by Tandon et al. (2017). The results reported earlier were based on the ground…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI)

Joice Mathew, B. G. Nair, Margarita Safonova +14

The Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) telescope with all-spherical mirrors, designed and built to fly as a scientific payload on a lunar mission wi…

astro-ph.IM2018

Design and modeling of a tunable spatial heterodyne spectrometer for emission line studies

Nirmal Kaipachery, Sridharan Rengaswamy, Sripadmanaban Sriram +6

Spatial Heterodyne Spectroscopy (SHS) is a relatively novel interferometric technique similar to the Fourier transform spectroscopy with heritage from the Michelson Interferometer.…