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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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 S. K. Ghosh , S. N. Tandon , S. K. Singh , D. S. Shelat , P. Tahlani , A. K. Singh , T. P. Srinivasan , P. Joseph , A. Devaraj , K. George , R. Mohan , J. Postma , C. S. Stalin

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) was launched as part of the multi-wavelength Indian ASTROSAT mission on 28 September, 2015 into a low Earth orbit. A 6-month performance verification (PV) phase ended in March 2016, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Jayant Murthy , P. T. Rahna , Firoza Sutaria , Margarita Safonova , S. B. Gudennavar , S. G. Bubbly

The Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the five payloads onboard the first Indian multiwavelength astronomical observatory, AstroSat, launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation on 28 September 2015. UVIT, designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Akanksha Dagore , Prajwel Joseph , S. N. Tandon , Annapurni Subramaniam , S. K. Ghosh , C. S. Stalin

We present the in-orbit performance and the first results from the ultra-violet Imaging telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSAT. UVIT consists of two identical 38cm coaligned telescopes, one for the FUV channel (130-180nm) and the other for the NUV…

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…

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 the initial calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) were reported earlier by Tandon et al. (2017). The results reported earlier were based on the ground calibration as well as the first observations in orbit.…

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 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

We have written a reference manual to use JUDE (Jayant's UVIT data Explorer) data pipeline software for processing and reducing the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) Level~1 data into event lists and images -- Level~2 data. The JUDE…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 P T Rahna , Jayant Murthy , Margarita Safonova

The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be launched to geostationary orbit in 2026. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view (204 deg$^2$) and NUV (230-290nm) sensitivity (22.5…

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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 V. Girish , Shyam N. Tandon , S. Sriram , Amit Kumar , Joe Postma

An ultraviolet survey of M31 has been carried out during 2017-23 with the UVIT instrument onboard the AstroSat Observatory. Here we present far and near ultraviolet (FUV and NUV) observations from the M31 UVIT survey, which covers a sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Denis Leahy , Sujith Ranasinghe , Saptadwipa Mitra , Kripansh Rawal

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) was flown as part of the Astro observatory on the Space Shuttle Columbia in December 1990 and again on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in March 1995. Ultraviolet (1200-3300 Angstroms) images of a variety…

The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India's first dedicated multiwavelength satellite \textit{AstroSat} observed a significant fraction of the sky in the ultraviolet with a spatial resolution of 1.4\arcsec. We present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Swagat Bordoloi , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Jayant Murthy

The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) was a 0.9 m telescope and moderate-resolution (~3 A) far-ultraviolet (820-1850 A) spectrograph that flew twice on the space shuttle, in 1990 December (Astro-1, STS-35) and 1995 March (Astro-2,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 William V. Dixon , William P. Blair , Jeffrey W. Kruk , Mary L. Romelfanger

The performance of the ultraviolet telescope (UVIT) on-board ASTROSAT is reported. The performance in orbit is also compared with estimates made from the calibrations done on the ground. The sensitivity is found to be within ~15% of the…

We present a description of the design and usage of a new synoptic pipeline and database model for time series photometry in the VISTA Data Flow System (VDFS). All UKIRT-WFCAM data and most of the VISTA main survey data will be processed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. J. G. Cross , R. S. Collins , N. C. Hambly , R. P. Blake , M. A. Read , E. T. W. Sutorius , R. G. Mann , P. M. Williams
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