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most citedSolar X-ray Monitor On Board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter: In-flight Performance and Science Prospects

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astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Evidence for in situ particle energization during the May-2024 event based on ASPEX instrument on board Aditya-L1

Shivam Parashar, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Prashant Kumar +26

The interaction between interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) structures can alter the geo-effectiveness of the ICME events in myriad ways. Many aspects of these interaction…

physics.space-ph2025

One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential

Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta +26

The SupraThermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS), a subsystem of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) onboard India's Aditya-L1 satellite, is designed to s…

astro-ph.SR2025

One year of ASPEX-SWIS operation -- Characteristic features, observations and science potential

Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Parashar, Prashant Kumar +26

The Aditya-L1 mission, India's first dedicated solar observatory positioned at the first Lagrange point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, carries the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS)…

physics.space-ph2025

Multi-directional investigations on quiet time suprathermal ions measured by ASPEX-STEPS on-board Aditya L1

Aakash Gupta, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Santosh Vadawale +26

The origin, acceleration and anisotropy of suprathermal ions in the interplanetary medium during quiet periods have remained poorly understood issues in solar wind physics. To addr…

physics.space-ph2025

Energetic ( 2 MeV) ion fluxes measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase

Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Bijoy Dalal, Santosh Vadawale +26

During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 26 cited

Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM -- Sub-A Class Microflares Outside Active Regions

Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun, Biswajit Mondal +12

Solar flares, with energies ranging over several orders of magnitude, result from impulsive release of energy due to magnetic reconnection in the corona. Barring a handful, almost…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 20 cited

Observations of the Quiet Sun During the Deepest Solar Minimum of the Past Century with Chandrayaan-2 XSM -- Elemental Abundances in the Quiescent Corona

Santosh V. Vadawale, Biswajit Mondal, N. P. S. Mithun +12

Elements with low First Ionization Potential (FIP) are known to be three to four times more abundant in active region loops of the solar corona than in the photosphere. There have…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 40 cited

Solar X-ray Monitor On Board the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter: In-flight Performance and Science Prospects

N. P. S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, Aveek Sarkar +14

The Solar X-ray Monitor (abbreviated as XSM) on board India's Chandrayaan-2 mission is designed to carry out broadband spectroscopy of the Sun from lunar orbit. It observes the Sun…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 13 cited

Ground Calibration of Solar X-ray Monitor On-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter

N. P. S. Mithun, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam +14

Chandrayaan-2, the second Indian mission to the Moon, carries a spectrometer called the Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) to perform soft X-ray spectral measurements of the Sun while a com…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) On-board Chandrayaan-2 Rover -- Pragyan

M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel +19

Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) is one of the two scientific experiments on Chandrayaan-2 rover named as Pragyan. The primary scientific objective of APXS is to determine…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 1 cited

Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) On-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter

M. Shanmugam, S. V. Vadawale, Arpit R. Patel +17

Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) is one of the scientific instruments on-board Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. The XSM along with instrument CLASS (Chandras Large Area Soft x-ray Spectrometer) com…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 1 cited

Design & development of position sensitive detector for hard X-ray using SiPM and new generation scintillators

S. K. Goyal, Amisha P. Naik, Mithun N. P. S. +11

There is growing interest in high-energy astrophysics community for the development of sensitive instruments in the hard X-ray energy extending to few hundred keV. This requires po…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 11 cited

Development of a Hard X-ray focal plane Compton Polarimeter: A compact polarimetric configuration with Scintillators and Si photomultipliers

T. Chattopadhyay, S. V. Vadawale, S. K. Goyal +7

X-ray polarization measurement of cosmic sources provides two unique parameters namely degree and angle of polarization which can probe the emission mechanism and geometry at close…