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  • Planets in the early Universe 
    Shchekinov, Y. A; Safonova, M; Murthy, J (Springer, 2013-07)
    Several planets have recently been discovered around stars that are old and metal-poor, implying that these planets are also old, formed in the early Universe together with their hosts. The canonical theory suggests that ...
  • Pointing system for the balloon-borne astronomical payloads 
    Nirmal, K; Sreejith, A. G; Mathew, J; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Ambily, S||Prakash, A; Safonova, M; Murthy, J (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016-12)
    We describe the development and implementation of a light-weight, fully autonomous 2-axis pointing and stabilization system designed for balloon-borne astronomical payloads. The system is developed using offthe-shelf ...
  • Predicting UV sky for future UV missions 
    Safonova, M; Mohan, Rekhesh; Sreejith, A. G; Murthy, J (Elsevier, 2013-02)
    Software simulators are now widely used in all areas of science, especially in application to astronomical missions: from instrument design to mission planning, and to data interpretation. We present a simulator to model ...
  • Probing the Role of Carbon in Ultraviolet Extinction along Galactic Sight Lines 
    Parvathi, V. S; Sofia, U. J; Murthy, J; Babu, B. R. S (IOP Publishing, 2012-11-20)
    We report previously undetermined interstellar gas and dust-phase carbon abundances along 15 Galactic sight lines based on archival data of the strong 1334.5323 Å transition observed with the Space Telescope Imaging ...
  • Proposed SMEX to spectrally analyze the diffuse x-ray background: The Baryonic Extragalactic Structure Tracer (BEST) 
    Sanders, W. T; Henry, R. C; Bregman, J. N; Cen, R; Cox, D. P; Croft, R. A. C; Hammond, E. C; Hurwitz, M. V; McKee, C; Kimble, R. A; Porter, F. S; Serlemitsos, P. J; Stahle, C. K; Murthy, J; Raymond, J. C; Smith, R. K; Szymkowiak, A. E (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering., 2003-03)
    The Baryonic Extragalactic Structure Tracer (BEST) is a SMEX-class mission that is designed to map the hot million-degree diffuse intergalactic and interstellar gas with high spectral resolution. It consists of an imaging ...
  • Proposed visible emission line space solar coronagraph 
    Singh, J; Prasad, B. R; Venkatakrishnan, P; Sankarasubramanian, K; Banerjee, D; Bayanna, R; Mathew, S; Murthy, J; Subramaniam, P; Ramesh, R; Kathiravan, S; Nagabhushana, S; Mahesh, P. K; Manoharan, P. K; Uddin, W; Sriram, S; Amit Kumar; Srivastava, N; Koteswara Rao; Nagendra, C. L; Chakraborty, P; Sriram, K. V; Venkateswaran, R; Krishnamurthy, T; Sreekumar, P; Sarma, K. S; Murthy, R; Navalgund, K. H; Samudraiah, D. R. M; Narayan Babu, P; Patra, A (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2011-01-25)
    The outer atmosphere of the sun – called the corona – has been observed during total solar eclipse for short periods (typically < 6 min), from as early as the eighteenth century. In the recent past, space-based instruments ...
  • Prospect for UV observations from the Moon 
    Safonova, M; Mathew, J; Mohan, Rekhesh; Sreejith, A. G; Murthy, J; Brosch, N; Kappelmann, N; Sharma, A; Narayan, R (Springer, 2014-10)
    Space astronomy in the last 40 years has largely been done from spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) for which the technology is proven and delivery mechanisms are readily available. However, new opportunities are arising ...
  • Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. II. Instrumental design of an ultraviolet imager LUCI 
    Mathew, J; Prakash, A; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Sreejith, A. G; Nirmal, K; Ambily, S; Safonova, M; Murthy, J; Brosch, N (Springer, 2017-02)
    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 ...
  • Prospect for UV observations from the moon. III. assembly and ground calibration of lunar ultraviolet cosmic imager (LUCI) 
    Mathew, J; Nair, B. G; Safonova, M; Sriram, S; Prakash, A; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Ambily, S; Nirmal, K; Sreejith, A. G; Murthy, J; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Prasad, B. R; Brosch, Noah; Kappelmann, Norbert; Gadde, Nirmal Suraj; Narayan, Rahul (Springer, 2019-03)
    The Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) telescope with all-spherical mirrors, designed and built to fly as a scientific payload on a lunar mission with Team Indus—the original Indian entry to ...
  • Prospects for observations of transient UV Events with the TAUVEX UV observatory 
    Safonova, M; Sivaram, C; Murthy, J (Springer, 2008-11)
    Transient events have posed special problems in astronomy because of the intrinsic difficulty of their detection, and a new class of observatories such as the Pan-STARRS and LSST are coming up specifically to observe these ...
  • A Raspberry Pi-based attitude sensor 
    Sreejith, A. G; Mathew, J; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Mohan, Rekhesh; Akshata Nayak; Safonova, M; Murthy, J (World Scientific Publishing Co., 2014-11)
    We have developed a lightweight low-cost attitude sensor, based on a Raspberry Pi, built with readily available commercial components. It can be used in experiments where weight and power are constrained, such as in ...
  • Science with a Wide-Field UV Transient Explorer 
    Sagiv, I; Gal-Yam, A; Ofek, E. O; Waxman, E; Aharonson, O; Kulkarni, S. R; Nakar, E; Maoz, D; Trakhtenbrot, B; Phinney, E. S; J. Topaz, J; Beichman, C; Murthy, J; Worden, S. P (IOP Publishing, 2014-04)
    The time-variable electromagnetic sky has been well-explored at a wide range of wavelengths. In contrast, the ultra-violet (UV) variable sky is relatively poorly explored, even though it offers exciting scientific prospects. ...
  • Silicon depletion in the interstellar medium 
    Haris, U; Parvathi, V. S; Gudennavar, S. B; Bubbly, S. G; Murthy, J; Sofia, U. J (IOP Publishing, 2016-07)
    We report interstellar silicon ( Si ) depletion and dust-phase column densities of Si along 131 Galactic sight lines using archival observations. The data were corrected for differences in the assumed oscillator ...
  • Simultaneous X-ray/UV Observations of Ultraluminous X-ray Source Holmberg II X-1 with Indian Space Mission Astrosat 
    Vinokurov, A; Atapin, K; Bordoloi, O. P; Sarkisyan, A; Kashyap, U; Chakraborty, M; Rahna, P. T; Kostenkov, A; Solovyeva, Y; Fabrika, S; Safonova, M; Gogoi, R; Sutaria, F. K; Murthy, J (Springer, 2022-09)
    We present the results of eight epochs of simultaneous UV and X-ray observations of the highly variable ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) Holmberg II X-1 with AstroSat—Indian multiwavelength space satellite. During the ...
  • A sky survey of ultraviolet sources observed through AstroSat’s UVIT: A point source catalogue 
    Bordoloi, Swagat; Shalima, P; Gogoi, Rupjyoti; Murthy, J (Cambridge University Press on behalf of Astronomical Society of Australia, 2024-11)
    The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India’s first dedicated multiwavelength satellite AstroSat observed a significant fraction of the sky in the ultraviolet with a spatial resolution of 1.4. We present a ...
  • A software package for evaluating the performance of a star sensor operation 
    Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Mathew, J; Sreejith, A. G; Nirmal, K; Ambily, S; Prakash, A; Safonova, M; Murthy, J (Springer, 2017-02)
    We have developed a low-cost off-the-shelf component star sensor (StarSense) for use in minisatellites and CubeSats to determine the attitude of a satellite in orbit. StarSense is an imaging camera with a limiting magnitude ...
  • The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on-board Aditya-L1 
    Murthy, J; Rahna, P. T; Sutaria, F. K; Safonova, M; Gudennavar, S. B; Bubbly, S. G (Current Science Association, 2017-08)
    The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the first dedicated solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which will be put in a halo orbit at the ...
  • Spaceborne ultraviolet 251-384 nm spectroscopy of a meteor during the 1997 Leonid shower 
    Jenniskens, P; Tedesco, Ed; Murthy, J; Laux, C. O; Price, S (Wiley, 2002-08)
    We used the ultraviolet to visible spectrometers onboard the midcourse space experiment to obtain the first ultraviolet spectral measurements of a bright meteor during the 1997 Leonid shower. The meteor was most likely a ...
  • Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING): a dedicated NUV spectrograph to study extended objects 
    Bharat Chandra; Nair, B. G; Suresh, Ambily; Prabha, C. S; Mathew, J; Nirmal, K; Sarpotdar, Mayuresh; Mohan, R; Safonova, M; Sriram, S; Murthy, J (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2019-01)
    SING is a near ultraviolet (NUV) spectrograph with a size close to 6U CubeSat form-factor. The spectrograph operates in the wavelength range from 1800 Å to 3000 Å, with a spectral resolution of 2 Å at the central wavelength. ...
  • Spectroscopic Investigation Of Nebular Gas (SING): a dedicated NUV spectrograph to study extended objects from a stable space platform 
    Chandra, B; Sachkov, Mikhail; Shanti Prabha, C; Prakash, A; Nair, B. G; Safonova, M; Rai, R; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Shmagin, Vladimir (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2020-12)
    One of the most exciting parts of the astrophysical spectrum is the ultraviolet, with a greater density of absorption and emission lines than any other part of the electromagnetic spectra. Our primary science objective ...

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