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

218 citations · 708 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING): Instrument Design, Assembly and Calibration

Bharat Chandra P, Binukumar G. Nair, Shubham Jankiram Ghatul +7

The Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) low-resolution spectrograph payload designed to operate in the NUV range, 1400 $\unicode{x212B}$ -…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

Development Of Raspberry Pi-based Processing Unit for UV Photon-Counting Detectors

Bharat Chandra P, Binukumar G., Shubham Janakiram +6

In ultraviolet (UV) astronomical observations, photons from the sources are very few compared to the visible or infrared (IR) wavelength ranges. Detectors operating in the UV usual…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 7 cited

Low-Cost Raspberry Pi Star Sensor for Small Satellites

Bharat Chandra P, Mayuresh Sarpotdar, Binukumar G. Nair +5

We present here a low-cost Raspberry Pi (RPi)-based star sensor StarberrySense using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, developed and built for applications in small satel…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 10 cited

An Automated Pipeline for Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)

S. K. Ghosh, S. N. Tandon, S. K. Singh +10

We describe a versatile pipeline for processing the data collected by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board Indian Multi-wavelength astronomical satellite AstroSat.The…

astro-ph.IM2022

The Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor (NUTS): An ultraviolet telescope to observe variable sources

S. Ambily, Mayuresh Sarpotdar, Joice Mathew +9

Observing the ultraviolet (UV) sky for time-variable phenomena is one of the many exciting science goals that can be achieved by a relatively small aperture telescope in space. The…

astro-ph.IM2021

Testing a Prototype 1U CubeSat on a Stratospheric Balloon Flight

Akaash Srikanth, Bharat Chandra, Binukumar G Nair +6

High-altitude balloon experiments are becoming very popular among universities and research institutes as they can be used for testing instruments eventually intended for space, an…