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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…
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…
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…
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…
Multiple rooks of chess - a generic integral field unit deployment technique
Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, A. N. Ramaprakash, Pravin Khodade +4
A new field re-configuration technique, Multiple Rooks of Chess (MRC), for multiple deployable Integral Field Spectrographs has been developed. The method involves mechanical geome…
RoboPol: optical polarization-plane rotations and flaring activity in blazars
D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. E. Papadakis +26
We present measurements of rotations of the optical polarization of blazars during the second year of operation of RoboPol, a monitoring programme of an unbiased sample of gamma-ra…
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…
Optical polarization map of the Polaris Flare with RoboPol
G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis, D. Blinov +26
The stages before the formation of stars in molecular clouds are poorly understood. Insights can be gained by studying the properties of quiescent clouds, such as their magnetic fi…
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…