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We present a design for a near-ultraviolet (NUV) imaging instrument which may be flown on a range of available platforms, including high-altitude balloons, nanosatellites, or space missions. Although all current UV space missions adopt a…

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We describe a versatile pipeline for processing the data collected by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board Indian Multi-wavelength astronomical satellite AstroSat.The UVIT instrument carries out simultaneous astronomical…

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We present an overview of a 90-orbit Hubble Space Telescope treasury program to obtain near ultraviolet imaging of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field using the Wide Field Camera 3 UVIS detector with the F225W, F275W, and F336W filters. This survey…

X-ray transients are among the most enigmatic objects in the cosmic sky. The unpredictability and underlying nature of their transient behavior has prompted much study in recent years. While significant progress has been made in this field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-14 Pragati Pradhan , Abraham D. Falcone , Jamie A. Kennea , David N. Burrows

The Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a near-infrared time-domain survey instrument operating on a dedicated 1-meter robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory. The project takes advantage of recent technology advances in…

Small satellite platforms with high performance avionics are becoming more affordable. So far, with a few exceptions, small satellites have been mainly dedicated to earth observation. However, astronomy is a fascinating field with a history…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Pol Ribes-Pleguezuelo , Fanny Keller , Matteo Taccola

Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope on ASTROSAT Satellite mission is a suite of Far Ultra Violet (FUV; 130 to 180 nm), Near Ultra Violet (NUV; 200 to 300 nm) and Visible band (VIS; 320 to 550nm) imagers. ASTROSAT is a first multi wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Amit Kumar , S. K. Ghosh , P. U. Kamath , Joe Postma , S. Kathiravan , P. K. Mahesh , Nagbhushana. S , K. H. Navalgund , N Rajkumar , M. N. Rao , K. S. Sarma , S. Sriram , C. S. Stalin , S. N. Tandon

While optical and radio transient surveys have enjoyed a renaissance over the past decade, the dynamic infrared sky remains virtually unexplored. The infrared is a powerful tool for probing transient events in dusty regions that have high…

The Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the payloads in ASTROSAT, the first Indian Space Observatory. The UVIT instrument has two 375mm telescopes: one for the far-ultraviolet (FUV) channel (1300--1800\AA), and the other for the…

Transient and variable phenomena in astrophysical sources are of particular importance to understand the underlying gamma-ray emission processes. In the very-high energy gamma-ray domain, transient and variable sources are related to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 F. Brun , Q. Piel , M. de Naurois , S. Bernhard

UVMag is a project of a space mission equipped with a high-resolution spectropolarimeter working in the UV and visible range. This M-size mission will be proposed to ESA at its M4 call. The main goal of UVMag is to measure the magnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Martin Pertenais , Coralie Neiner , Laurent Pares , Pascal Petit , Frans Snik , Gerard van harten

Exploration of the transient Universe is an exciting and fast-emerging area within radio astronomy. Known transient phenomena range in time scales from sub-nanoseconds to years or longer, thus spanning a huge range in time domain and…

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Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the payloads onboard AstroSat, India's first multi-wavelength Astronomy mission. UVIT is primarily designed to make high resolution images in wide field, in three wavelength channels…

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I review the development of UV and EUV astronomy, covering the spectral range from 5 to 300 nm, with emphasis on sky surveys for discrete sources. I discuss studies which resulted in lists of sources observed by imaging. The missions are…

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The Far- and Lyman-Ultraviolet Imaging Demonstrator (FLUID) is a rocket-borne arcsecond-level ultraviolet (UV) imaging instrument covering four bands between 92 -- 193 nm. FLUID will observe nearby galaxies to find and characterize the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-05 Nicholas Nell , Nicholas Kruczek , Kevin France , Stefan Ulrich , Patrick Behr , Emily Farr

Dedicated to spectroscopic and imaging observations of the ultraviolet sky, the World Space Observatory for Ultraviolet Project is a Russia led international collaboration presently involving also China, Germany, Italy, Spain and Ukraine.…

Selection of extreme objects in the data from large-scale sky surveys is a powerful tool for the detection of new classes of astrophysical objects or rare stages of their evolution. The cross-matching of catalogues and analysis of the color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Sergey Karpov , Oleg Malkov , Gang Zhao

Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection methods, a significant performance drop is observed when applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

In developing a deeper understanding of the Circumgalactic Medium, one feature that is poorly understood is the nature of the ultraviolet background (UVB) and its impact on observed column densities. A wide array of UVB models have been…

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