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Recently an Indian Astronomical Observatory has been set up at Hanle (32$^\circ$ 46$^\prime$ 46$^{\prime\prime}$ N, 78$^\circ$ 57$^\prime$ 51$^{\prime\prime}$ E, 4515m amsl) situated in the high altitude cold desert in the Himalayas. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Cowsik , P. N. Bhat , V. R. Chitnis , B. S. Acharya , P. R. Vishwanath

Thanks to the first mm studies on the territory of the former USSR in the early 1960s and succeeding sub-mm measurements in the 1970s - early 1980s at wavelengths up to 0.34 mm, a completely unique astroclimate was revealed in the Eastern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-10 Alexander V. Lapinov , Svetlana A. Lapinova , Leonid Yu. Petrov , Daniel Ferrusca

X-ray astronomy is a mature area of observational astronomy. After the discovery of the first non-solar X-ray source in 1962, X-ray astronomy proliferated during the Apollo era's space race. Then, it matured as an established area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 A R Rao

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

Results of 2005-2007 campaign of measurement of the optical turbulence vertical distribution above Mt. Maidanak are presented. Measurements are performed with the MASS (Multi-Aperture Scintillation Sensor) device which is widely used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Kornilov , S. Ilyasov , O. Voziakova , Yu. Tillaev , B. Safonov , M. Ibragimov , N. Shatsky , S. Ehgamberdiev

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard Aditya--L1, the first solar space observatory of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India, launched on September 2, 2023. SUIT is designed to image the Sun…

The Advanced Technology Large-Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a concept for an 8-meter to 16-meter UVOIR space observatory for launch in the 2025-2030 era. ATLAST will allow astronomers to answer fundamental questions at the forefront…

The Himalayan plateau region of Ladakh, India, is a potential host for a science-class submillimeter observatory, building on existing astronomical infrastructure near Hanle and Merak. Using the fifth-generation European Centre for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Tanmay Singh , Mayuri Sathyanarayana Rao , Ritoban Basu Thakur

VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is an array of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes sensitive to very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays above 100 GeV. Located at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Nicola Galante

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 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is the first optical survey telescope in India that performs zenithal observations of a 22$'$ wide strip of the sky. To determine the portion of the sky covered by the ILMT during the…

We present the first results of the site testing performed at Mt.~Shatdzhatmaz at Northern Caucasus, where the new Sternberg astronomical institute 2.5-m telescope will be installed. An automatic site monitor instrumentation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. Kornilov , N. Shatsky , O. Voziakova , B. Safonov , S. Potanin , M. Kornilov

The Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST) is a set of mission concepts for the next generation UV-Optical-Near Infrared space telescope with an aperture size of 8 to 16 meters. ATLAST, using an internal coronagraph or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-20 M. Postman , W. Traub , J. Krist , K. Stapelfeldt , R. Brown , W. Oegerle , A. Lo , M. Clampin , R. Soummer , J. Wiseman , M. Mountain

An air shower array of seven plastic scintillation detectors has been built and commissioned at an altitude of 2200 meter above sea level in the Eastern Himalayas (Darjeeling). Continuous measurement of shower rate using this array is going…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-24 S. Roy , S. Chakraborty , S. Chatterjee , S. Biswas , S. Das , S. K. Ghosh , A. Maulik , S. Raha

A cross-dispersed spectrophotometer with CCD detector and its automated 0.5-m telescope at the Fairborn Observatory, now under construction, should begin observations in 6 to 9 months. The Citadel ASTRA Telescope will be able to observe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. J. Adelman , A. F. Gulliver , B. Smalley , J. S. Pazder , P. F. Younger , L. Boyd , D. Epand

Astronomical facilities at the high-altitude observatory Terskol in the Northern Caucasus include optical telescopes with diameters up to 2 m, their instrumentation (high-resolution spectrometers, high-speed photometers, CCDs, etc.), as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 V. Tarady , O. Sergeev , M. Karpov , B. Zhilyaev , V. Godunova

VERITAS is a ground-based gamma-ray observatory that uses the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique and operates in the very high-energy (VHE) region of the gamma- ray spectrum from 100 GeV to 50 TeV. The observatory consists of an array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-01 T. C. Weekes , the VERITAS Collaboration

In order to avoid collisions with space debris, the near Earth orbit must be continuously scanned by either ground- or spaced-based facilities. For the low Earth orbit, radar telescopes are the workhorse for this task, especially due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-26 Daniel Hampf , Paul Wagner , Wolfgang Riede

A constellation of remote sensing small satellite system has been developed for infrastructure monitoring in India by using SAR Payload. The LEO constellation of the small satellites is designed in a way, which can cover the entire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Roshan Sah , Raunak Srivastava , Kaushik Das

The Ngari (Ali) prefecture of Tibet, one of the highest areas in the world, has recently emerged as a promising site for future astronomical observation. Here we use 31 years of reanalysis data from the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Quan-Zhi Ye , Meng Su , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang