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Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter Control Software
John A. Kypriotakis, Bhushan Joshi, Dmitry Blinov +19
The WALOPControl software is designed to facilitate comprehensive control and operation of the WALOP (Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter) polarimeters, ensuring safe and concurre…
Test and Calibration of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1
Janmejoy Sarkar, VN Nived, Soumya Roy +52
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board the AdityaL1 mission observes the Sun in the 200-400 nm wavelength range. This paper presents the results of various on grou…
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board Aditya-L1
Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Sreejith Padinhatteeri +75
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument on the Aditya-L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched on September 02, 2023. SUIT conti…
The WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration
John A. Kypriotakis, Siddharth Maharana, Ramya M. Anche +18
The Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter North (WALOP-North) is an optical polarimeter designed for the needs of the PASIPHAE survey. It will be installed on the 1.3m telescope at…
Systems design, assembly, integration and lab testing of WALOP-South Polarimeter
Siddharth Maharana, A. N. Ramaprakash, Chaitanya Rajarshi +28
Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP)-South is the first wide-field and survey-capacity polarimeter in the optical wavelengths. On schedule for commissioning in 2024, it wil…
Speckle simulation tool for automated modelling of a large range of telescope aperture to fried parameter ratios
Sorabh Chhabra, Abhay A. Kohok, Bhushan S. Joshi +3
The Speckle Imager via MUlti Layer Atmospheric Turbulence Object Reconstructor (SIMULATOR) is a lab-based testbed instrument developed to test for speckle correlation-based techniq…
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard Aditya-L1
Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Aafaque Khan +9
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard the Aditya-L1 mission of ISRO that will measure and monitor the solar radiation emitted in the near-ultravio…
WALOP-South: A wide-field one-shot linear optical polarimeter for PASIPHAE survey
Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash +20
WALOP (Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter)-South, to be mounted on the 1m SAAO telescope in South Africa, is first of the two WALOP instruments currently under development for ca…
WALOP-South: A Four Camera One Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper I -- Optical Design
Siddharth Maharana, John A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash +17
The WALOP-South instrument will be mounted on the 1 m SAAO telescope in South Africa as part of the PASIPHAE program to carry out a linear imaging polarization survey of the Galact…
RoboPol: A four-channel optical imaging polarimeter
A. N. Ramaprakash, C. V. Rajarshi, H. K. Das +30
We present the design and performance of RoboPol, a four-channel optical polarimeter operating at the Skinakas Observatory in Crete, Greece. RoboPol is capable of measuring both re…
DOTIFS: fore-optics and calibration unit design
Haeun Chung, A. N. Ramaprakash, Pravin Khodade +5
We present fore-optics and calibration unit design of Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS). DOTIFS fore-optics is designed to modify the focal ratio of…
DOTIFS: spectrograph optical and opto-mechanical design
Haeun Chung, A. N. Ramaprakash, Pravin Khodade +10
Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS) is a new multi-Integral Field Unit (IFU) instrument, planned to be mounted on the 3.6m Devasthal optical telescope…
DOTIFS: a new multi-IFU optical spectrograph for the 3.6-m Devasthal optical telescope
Haeun Chung, A. N. Ramaprakash, Amitesh Omar +4
Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS) is a new multi-object Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) being designed and fabricated by the Inter-University Cente…
RoboPol: First season rotations of optical polarization plane in blazars
D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. Papadakis +25
We present first results on polarization swings in optical emission of blazars obtained by RoboPol, a monitoring program of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray bright blazars specially…
Early-time polarized optical light curve of GRB 131030A
O. G. King, D. Blinov, D. Giannios +23
We report the polarized optical light curve of a gamma-ray burst afterglow obtained using the RoboPol instrument. Observations began 655 seconds after the initial burst of gamma-ra…
The RoboPol optical polarization survey of gamma-ray - loud blazars
V. Pavlidou, E. Angelakis, I. Myserlis +23
We present first results from RoboPol, a novel-design optical polarimeter operating at the Skinakas Observatory in Crete. The data, taken during the May - June 2013 commissioning o…
The RoboPol Pipeline and Control System
O. G. King, D. Blinov, A. N. Ramaprakash +26
We describe the data reduction pipeline and control system for the RoboPol project. The RoboPol project is monitoring the optical -band magnitude and linear polarization of a la…