The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board Aditya-L1
Abstract
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 continuously provides, near-simultaneous full-disk and region-of-interest images of the Sun, slicing through the photosphere and chromosphere and covering a field of view up to 1.5 solar radii. For this purpose, SUIT uses 11 filters tuned at different wavelengths in the 200{--}400~nm range, including the Mg~{\sc ii} h~and~k and Ca~{\sc ii}~H spectral lines. The observations made by SUIT help us understand the magnetic coupling of the lower and middle solar atmosphere. In addition, for the first time, it allows the measurements of spatially resolved solar broad-band radiation in the near and mid ultraviolet, which will help constrain the variability of the solar ultraviolet irradiance in a wavelength range that is central for the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere. This paper discusses the details of the instrument and data products.
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@article{arxiv.2501.02274,
title = {The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board Aditya-L1},
author = {Durgesh Tripathi and A. N. Ramaprakash and Sreejith Padinhatteeri and Janmejoy Sarkar and Mahesh Burse and Anurag Tyagi and Ravi Kesharwani and Sakya Sinha and Bhushan Joshi and Rushikesh Deogaonkar and Soumya Roy and V. N. Nived and Rahul Gopalakrishnan and Akshay Kulkarni and Aafaque Khan and Avyarthana Ghosh and Chaitanya Rajarshi and Deepa Modi and Ghanshyam Kumar and Reena Yadav and Manoj Varma and Raja Bayanna and Pravin Chordia and Mintu Karmakar and Linn Abraham and H. N. Adithya and Abhijit Adoni and Gazi A. Ahmed and Dipankar Banerjee and Bhargava Ram and Rani Bhandare and Subhamoy Chatterjee and Kalpesh Chillal and Arjun Dey and Achim Gandorfer and Girish Gowda and T. R. Haridas and Anand Jain and Melvin James and R. P. Jayakumar and Evangeline Leeja Justin and Nagaraju K. and Deepak Kathait and Pravin Khodade and Mandeep Kiran and Abhay Kohok and Natalie Krivova and Nishank Kumar and Nidhi Mehandiratta and Vilas Mestry and Srikanth Motamarri and Sajjade F. Mustafa and Dibyendu Nandy and S. Narendra and Sonal Navle and Nashiket Parate and Anju M Pillai and Sujit Punnadi and A. Rajendra and A. Ravi and Bijoy Raha and K. Sankarasubramanian and Ghulam Sarvar and Nigar Shaji and Nidhi Sharma and Aditya Singh and Shivam Singh and Sami K. Solanki and Vivek Subramanian and Rethika T and Srikanth T and Satyannarayana Thatimattala and Hari Krishna Tota and Vishnu TS and Amrita Unnikrishnan and Kaushal Vadodariya and D. R. Veeresha and R. Venkateswaran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.02274},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
37 pages, Accepted for Publication in Solar Physics