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20122026
most citedIn-orbit Calibrations of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope

218 citations · 519 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Augmentation of the Gauribidanur radioheliograph for observations of circularly polarized emission from the solar corona at low radio frequencies

Sayuf Shaik, Kathiravan C, Gireesh G. V. S +4

The magnetic field strengths (B) in the solar photosphere are routinely measured using the Zeeman effect. However, such measurements are not available in the solar chromosphere and…

astro-ph.IM2024

1-bit raw voltage recording system for dedicated observations of transients at low radio frequencies

Kshitij S. Bane, Indrajit V. Barve, G. V. S. Gireesh +2

Recently we had reported commissioning of a prototype for pulsar observations at low radio frequencies (<100 MHz) using log-periodic dipole antennas (LPDAs) in the Gauribidanur Rad…

astro-ph.IM2022

High-Performance Computing for SKA Transient Search: Use of FPGA based Accelerators -- a brief review

R. Aafreen, R. Abhishek, B. Ajithkumar +34

This paper presents the High-Performance computing efforts with FPGA for the accelerated pulsar/transient search for the SKA. Case studies are presented from within SKA and pathfin…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 6 cited

A prototype for pulsar observations at low radio frequencies using log periodic dipole antennas

Kshitij S. Bane, Indrajit V. Barve, G. V. S. Gireesh +2

A prototype for dedicated observations of pulsars and other astrophysical transients in the frequency range 50\,-\,80\,MHz has been recently commissioned at the Gauribidanur radio…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 3 cited

Radio Interferometric Observations of the Sun Using Commercial Dish TV Antennas

G. V. S. Gireesh, C. Kathiravan, Indrajit V. Barve +1

The radio astronomy group in the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) has been carrying out routine observations of radio emission from the solar corona at low frequencies (${\ap…

astro-ph.IM2021

Solar Radio Spectro-polarimetry (50-500 MHz) : Design and Development of Cross-Polarized Log-Periodic Dipole antenna and configuration of receiver system

Anshu Kumari, G. V. S. Gireesh, C. Kathiravan +2

A radio spectro-polarimeter was developed at the Gauribidanur radio observatory to study the characteristics of the polarized radio waves that are emitted by the impetuous solar co…

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.IM2017★ 218 cited

In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope

S. N. Tandon, Annapurni Subramaniam, V. Girish +22

The Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the payloads in ASTROSAT, the first Indian Space Observatory. The UVIT instrument has two 375mm telescopes: one for the far-ultr…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 77 cited

In-orbit Performance of UVIT and First Results

S. N. Tandon, J. B. Hutchings, S. K. Ghosh +23

The performance of the ultraviolet telescope (UVIT) on-board ASTROSAT is reported. The performance in orbit is also compared with estimates made from the calibrations done on the g…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 18 cited

Design and performance of a low frequency cross-polarized log-periodic dipole antenna

K. Sasikumar Raja, C. Kathiravan, R. Ramesh +2

We report the design and performance of a cross-polarized log-periodic dipole (CLPD) antenna for observations of polarized radio emission from the solar corona at low frequencies.…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 36 cited

In-orbit Performance of UVIT on ASTROSAT

Annapurni Subramaniam, Shyam N. Tandon, John Hutchings +23

We present the in-orbit performance and the first results from the ultra-violet Imaging telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSAT. UVIT consists of two identical 38cm coaligned telescopes, one…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 11 cited

RRI-GBT Multi-Band Receiver: Motivation, Design & Development

Yogesh Maan, Avinash A. Deshpande, Vinutha Chandrashekar +32

We report the design and development of a self-contained multi-band receiver (MBR) system, intended for use with a single large aperture to facilitate sensitive & high time-resolut…