Investigating the In-Flight Performance of the UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT

P. T. Rahna; Jayant Murthy; M. Safonova; F. Sutaria; S. B. Gudennavar; S. G. Bubbly

doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1748

Investigating the In-Flight Performance of the UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2018-05-02 v2

Authors: P. T. Rahna , Jayant Murthy , M. Safonova , F. Sutaria , S. B. Gudennavar , S. G. Bubbly

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We have studied the performance of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope payload on AstroSat and derived a calibration of the FUV and NUV instruments on board. We find that the sensitivity of both the FUV and NUV channels is as expected from ground calibrations, with the FUV effective area about 35% and the NUV effective area about the same as that of GALEX. The point spread function of the instrument is on the order of 1.2-1.6 arcsec. We have found that pixel-to-pixel variations in the sensitivity are less than 10% with spacecraft motion compensating for most of the flat-field variations. We derived a distortion correction but recommend that it be applied post-processing as part of an astrometric solution.

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UVIT ASTROSAT ultraviolet astronomy in-flight calibration point spread function effective area distortion correction

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@article{arxiv.1706.02523,
  title  = {Investigating the In-Flight Performance of the UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT},
  author = {P. T. Rahna and Jayant Murthy and M. Safonova and F. Sutaria and S. B. Gudennavar and S. G. Bubbly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02523},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Published in MNRAS, 8 pages, 11 figures

Investigating the In-Flight Performance of the UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT

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