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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…
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…
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…
Noise Characterization of IUCAA Digital Sampling Array Controller (IDSAC)
Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, A. N. Ramaprakash, Bhushan Joshi +11
IUCAA Digital Sampling Array Controller (IDSAC) is a flexible and generic yet powerful CCD controller which can handle a wide range of scientific detectors. Based on an easily scal…
IDSAC - IUCAA Digital Sampler Array Controller
Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay, Pravin Chordia, A. N. Ramaprakash +3
IUCAA Digital Sampling Array Controller (IDSAC) is a generic CCD Controller which is flexible and powerful enough to control a wide variety of CCDs and CMOS detectors used for grou…
CIRCE: The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment for the Gran Telescopio Canarias
Stephen S. Eikenberry, Miguel Charcos, Michelle L. Edwards +51
The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) is a near-infrared (1-2.5 micron) imager, polarimeter and low-resolution spectrograph operating as a visitor instrument for the Gran…
Know The Star, Know the Planet. IV. A Stellar Companion to the Host star of the Eccentric Exoplanet HD 8673b
Lewis C. Roberts, Brian D. Mason, Christopher R. Neyman +28
HD 8673 hosts a massive exoplanet in a highly eccentric orbit (e=0.723). Based on two epochs of speckle interferometry a previous publication identified a candidate stellar compani…
High-efficiency Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics
Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +10
As new large-scale astronomical surveys greatly increase the number of objects targeted and discoveries made, the requirement for efficient follow-up observations is crucial. Adapt…
Rise of the machines: first year operations of the Robo-AO visible-light laser-adaptive optics instrument
Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +11
Robo-AO is the first autonomous laser adaptive optics system and science instrument operating on sky. With minimal human oversight, the system robotically executes large scale surv…
Characterizing the Cool KOIs. V. KOI-256: A Mutually Eclipsing Post-Common Envelope Binary
Philip S. Muirhead, Andrew Vanderburg, Avi Shporer +23
We report that Kepler Object of Interest 256 (KOI-256) is a mutually eclipsing post-common envelope binary (ePCEB), consisting of a cool white dwarf (M = 0.592 +/- 0.089 MSun, R =…
Bringing the Visible Universe into Focus with Robo-AO
Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, Nicholas M. Law +13
Light from astronomical objects must travel through the earth's turbulent atmosphere before it can be imaged by ground-based telescopes. To enable direct imaging at maximum theoret…
Robo-AO: An Autonomous Laser Adaptive Optics and Science System
Christoph Baranec, Reed Riddle, A. N. Ramaprakash +15
Robo-AO, a fully autonomous, laser guide star adaptive optics and science system, is being commissioned at Palomar Observatory's 60-inch telescope. Here we discuss the instrument,…
UNICS - An Unified Instrument Control System for Small/Medium Sized Astronomical Observatories
Mudit K. Srivastava, A. N. Ramaprakash, Mahesh P. Burse +5
Although the astronomy community is witnessing an era of large telescopes, smaller and medium sized telescopes still maintain their utility being larger in numbers. In order to obt…