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20122023
most citedIn-orbit Calibrations of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope

218 citations · 601 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

astro-ph.SR2023

Data processing of Visible Emission Line Coronagraph Onboard ADITYA L1

Muthu Priyal, Jagdev Singh, B. Raghavendra Prasad +28

ADITYA-L1 is India's first dedicated mission to observe the sun and its atmosphere from a halo orbit around L1 point. Visible emission line coronagraph (VELC) is the prime payload…

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★ 2 cited

Development of image motion compensation system for 1.3 m telescope at Vainu Bappu Observatory

Sreekanth Reddy, Ravinder Kumar Banyal, Sridharan R +2

We developed a tip-tilt system to compensate the turbulence induced image motion for 1.3 m telescope at Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur. The instrument is designed to operate at v…

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.SR2018

Installation of Solar Chromospheric Telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory, Merak

Ravindra B, Prabhu Kesavan, Thulasidharen +13

We report the observations of the solar chromosphere from a newly commissioned solar telescope at the incursion site near Pangong Tso lake in Merak (Leh/Ladakh). This new H tel…