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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 the first multi wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Amit Kumar , S. K. Ghosh , J. Hutchings , P. U. Kamath , S. Kathiravan , P. K. Mahesh , J. Murthy , Nagbhushana. S , A. K. Pati , M. N. Rao , N. K. Rao , S. Sriram , S. N. Tandon

We present a catalogue of new spectral types for hot, luminous stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The catalogue contains 4161 objects, giving an order of magnitude increase in the number of SMC stars with published spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. J. Evans , I. D. Howarth , M. J. Irwin , A. W. Burnley , T. J. Harries

We describe calibration data, and discuss performance of the photon-counting flight detectors for the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescopes on the Astrosat observatory. The paper describes dark current, flat field and light-spot images for FUV,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Postma , J. B. Hutchings , D. Leahy

We present the first Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC). The catalogue was compiled from 23,059 Swift datasets taken within the first five years of observations with the Swift UVOT. A purpose-built…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-29 M. Page , V. Yershov , A. Breeveld , N. P. M. Kuin , R. P. Mignani , P. J. Smith , J. I. Rawlings , S. R. Oates , M. Siegel , P. W. A. Roming

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

The structure of our Galaxy has been studied from ultraviolet (UV) star counts obtained with the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board the {\em AstroSat} satellite, in Far-UV (FUV) and Near-UV (NUV) bands. The F154W (BaF2) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Ranjan Kumar , Ananta C. Pradhan , Devendra K. Ojha , Sonika Piridi , Tapas Baug , S. K. Ghosh

We present high-resolution near-ultraviolet (NUV) and far-ultraviolet (FUV) deep imaging of the field around the Seyfert galaxy IC~4329A based on five observations performed with the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), onboard AstroSat.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Piyali Ganguly , Priyanka Rani , Gulab C. Dewangan

We present an atlas of 57 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 37 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) observations obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite. The atlas highlights twelve interstellar absorption line…

We present a star catalogue extracted from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT) survey program. LUT's observable sky area is a circular belt around the Moon's north pole, and the survey program covers a preferred area for about 2400…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Xian-Min Meng , Xu-Hui Han , Jian-Yan Wei , Jing Wang , Li Cao , Yu-Lei Qiu , Chao Wu , Jin-Song Deng , Hong-Bo Cai , Li-Ping Xin

The wide range of UV extinction properties in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) probably traces the effects of star formation on interstellar dust. The Swift UVOT, with its three UV filters (centred at 1800, 2200 and 2500 A respectively) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Blustin , W. B. Landsman , M. Still , S. R. Rosen , M. J. Page , P. W. A. Roming

The far-ultraviolet (FUV) diffuse emission is predominantly due to scattering of starlight from interstellar dust grains which shows a large regional variation depending on the relative orientations of dust and stars. The observations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-05 Ananta C. Pradhan

We present new radio continuum images and a source catalogue from the MeerKAT survey in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The observations, at a central frequency of 1.3 GHz across a bandwidth of 0.8 GHz, encompass a field…

Dust scattering is the main source of diffuse emission in the far-ultraviolet (FUV). For several locations in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has observed diffuse radiation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-05 Gautam Saikia , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Amit Pathak

Extensive multi-wavelength studies of novae have been carried out in our galaxy and in M31 for decades. However, UV studies of extragalactic novae are limited, especially those in quiescence. For the first time, we present a UV catalog of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Judhajeet Basu , Krishnendu S. , Sudhanshu Barway , Shatakshi Chamoli , G. C. Anupama

The bright Magellanic irregular galaxy NGC 4449 was observed during the Astro-2 Space Shuttle mission by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), which obtained images of a ~40 arcmin field centered on the galaxy in two broad…

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

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-09 Priya Shah

Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the payloads on the first Indian multi wavelength satellite ASTROSAT expected to be launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in the year 2015. We have performed simulations of UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 Sindhu. N , Annapurni. Subramaniam , C. Anu Radha

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…

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has performed the first surveys of the sky in the Ultraviolet (UV). Its legacy is an unprecedented database with more than 200 million source measurements in far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi , Alberto Conti , Bernie Shiao

We present a source catalog from the first deep hard X-ray ($E>10$ keV) survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the NuSTAR Legacy Survey of the SMC. We observed three fields, for a total exposure time of 1 Ms, along the bar of this…