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  • An implementation of transfer-pupil in a spectrograph on optical telescopes 
    Das, H. K; Kohok, A; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2004-06)
    Based on the transfer pupil technique we develop a method to measure the lower order aberration coeffcients for optical telescopes; the method makes use of a Hartmann mask in a spectrograph for sampling the wavefront at ...
  • In-orbit Calibrations of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope 
    Tandon, S. N; Subramaniam, A; Girish, V; Postma, J; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sriram, S; Stalin, C. S; Mondal, Chayan; Sahu, S; Joseph, P; Hutchings, J; Ghosh, S. K; Barve, Indrajit V; George, K; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Kumar, A; Lancelot, J. P; Leahy, D; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, Rekhesh; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N; Sreedhar, Yuvraj Harsha; Sreekumar, P (IOP Publishing, 2017-09)
    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 Å), ...
  • In-orbit performance of UVIT and first results 
    Tandon, S. N; Hutchings, J. B; Ghosh, S. K; Subramaniam, A; George, K|; Girish, V; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Kumar, A; Lancelot, J.P; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Postma, J; Kameswara Rao, N; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Sriram, S; Stalin, C. S; Sutaria, F. K; Sreedhar, Yuvraj Harsha; Barve, Indrajit V; Mondal, Chayan; Snehalata Sahu (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017-06)
    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 ...
  • In-orbit performance of UVIT on ASTROSAT 
    Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N; Hutchings, J; Ghosh, S. K; George, K; Girish, V; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Kumar, Amit; Lancelot, J. P; Mahesh, P (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016-07)
    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 ...
  • In-orbit performance of UVIT over the past 5 years 
    Ghosh, S. K; Joseph, P; Kumar, A; Postma, J; Stalin, C. S; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N; Barve, Indrajit V; Devaraj, A; George, K; Girish, V; Hutchings, J. B; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Lancelot, J. P; Leahy, D; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, R; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Sriram, S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Over the last 5 years, UVIT has completed observations of more than 500 proposals with ∼800 unique pointings. In addition, regular planned monitoring observations have been made and from their analysis various key parameters ...
  • Infrared emission from IRAS 00338+6312 
    Mookerjea, B; Ghosh, S. K; Karnik, A. D; Rengarajan, T. N; Tandon, S. N; Verma, R. P (Astronomical Society of India, 1999)
    The Galactic star forming region associated with IRAS 00338+6312 has been mapped in 2 Far Infrared (FIR) bands centered around 140 & 185 μm, using the TIFR 100 cm balloon-borne telescope with liquid 3/sup He cooled bolometer ...
  • Infrared spectral energy distribution of four star forming regions 
    Karnik, A. D; Ghosh, S. K; Rengarajan, T. N; Tandon, S. N; Verma, R. P (Astronomical Society of India, 1999)
    Star forming regions associated with IRAS 19181+1349, 20255+3712, 20178+4046 and 10049+5657 have been mapped simultaneously in two far infrared bands (λeff ~ 130 and 210 µm), using TIFR 1m balloon borne telescope with ...
  • Instrumentation for the IUCAA telescope 
    Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1998)
  • IUCAA 2 meter telescope and its first light instrument IFOSC 
    Gupta, R; Burse, M; Das, H. K; Kohok, A; Ramaprakash, A. N; Engineer, S; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002-09)
    The various features of the IUCAA 2-meter telescope, its site parameters and considerations made for preserving the local seeing in terms of ventilation, thermal emissivity of the dome etc are described. The first ...
  • Magnetic fields in molecular clouds 
    Ramaprakash, A. N; Gupta, R; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1998)
  • Mapping distortion of detectors in UVIT onboard astroSat observatory 
    Girish, V; Tandon, S. N; Sriram, S; Amit Kumar; Postma, J (Springer, 2017-02)
    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 ...
  • Near Infrared PICNIC Imager (NIPI) - A Progress Report 
    Deep, A; Ramaprakash, A. N; Tandon, S. N; Gupta, R; Burse, M. P; Chordia, P. A; Das, H. K; Engineer, S; Kohok, A. A; Mestry, V. B (Astronomical Society of India, 2003)
    In the ASI 2002 meeting we presented a preliminary design of Near Infrared PICNIC Imager (Deep et al, 2002). In this paper we will show the progress that has been made since then.
  • Near Infrared PICNIC Imager (NIPI) for IUCAA Telescope 
    Deep, A; Ramaprakash, A. N; Tandon, S. N; Gupta, R; Burse, M. P; Chordia, P. A; Das, H. K; Engineer, S; Kohok, A. A; Mestry, V. B (Astronomical Society of India, 2002-09)
    In this paper we present the current status of development of the Near Infrared PICNIC Imager (NIPI), which will be the first near-ffi instrument on IUCAA telescope. When used at one of the Cassegrain side ports of ...
  • New generation optical telescopes and plans for a large optical telescope in India 
    Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1993)
    The large optical telescopes which are being made now or are under planning differ from the older telescopes in many basic features: the primary mirrors are faster (f/2 or so) and much lighter, the altitude-azimuth mounting ...
  • New opportunities for Indian space astronomy 
    Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2005-09)
  • Noise modeling and analysis of an IMU-based attitude sensor: improvement of performance by filtering and sensor fusion 
    Subramaniam, A; Sindhu, N; Tandon, S. N; Kameswara Rao, N; Postma, J; Cote, Patrick; Hutchings, J. B; Ghosh, S. K; George, K; Girish, V; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Sankarasubramanian, K; Stalin, C. S; Sutaria, F. K; Mondal, Chayan; Snehalata Sahu (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016-07)
    We describe the characterization and removal of noises present in the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) MPU- 6050, which was initially used in an attitude sensor, and later used in the development of a pointing system for ...
  • Optical identification of equatorial infrared catalogue number 1 sources previously identified with only AFGL sources 
    Iyengar, K. V. K; Tandon, S. N; Verma, R. P (Astronomical Society of India, 1983-09)
    We have identified, using Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) prints, the optical counterparts of six of the seven sources from the Equatorial Infrared Catalogue Number 1 (EIC-1) previously identified by Sweeney et al. ...
  • Performance of the UVIT Level-2 pipeline 
    Ghosh, S. K; Tandon, S. N; Joseph, P; Devaraj, A; Shelat, D. S; Stalin, C. S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Performance of the Level-2 pipeline, which translates the UVIT data created by the ISRO’s ground segment processing systems (Level-1) into astronomer ready scientific data products, is described. This pipeline has evolved ...
  • Science with IUCAA telescope 
    Srianand, R; Gupta, R; Kembhavi, A; Ramaprakash, A. N; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002-09)
    We present a brief overview of the proposed astronomical observations using the first light instrument !FOSC for the WCAA 2 m telescope.
  • Site characterisation for the IUCAA telescope 
    Das, H. K; Menon, S. M; Paranjpye, A; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1999)
    We present the report on characterisation of the site for IUCAA telescope, which was conducted during October '96 to April '97. The main points highlighted are the results on : seeing, contribution of atmospheric turbulence ...

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