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  • 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 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 ...
  • Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING): general objectives and preliminary optical layout 
    Sachkov, M. E; Chandra, B; Murthy, J; Shmagin, V. E; Prabha, Sh; Prakash, A; Nair, B. G; Safonova, M. V; Rai, R; Mohan, R (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020-12)
    The ultraviolet spectral subdiapasons, both near UV (180─300 nm) and far UV (115─180 nm), are highly requested by astrophysicists. The successful space missions like IUE, HST, GALEX and others provided scientists with ...
  • Spectroscopy of Seyferts in the Far-UV 
    Shastri, P; Murthy, J; Hutchings, J (Astronomical Society of India, 2003)
    We present our preliminary far-ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert Mrk 533 obtained with FUSE. These are among the first FUV spectra of a purportedly edge-on Seyfert, and show narrow OVI emission as well as some evidence ...
  • Stellar and interstellar parameters from large photometric surveys 
    Malkov, O; Karpov, S; Kovaleva, D; Murthy, J; Sichevsky, S; Sytov, A; Zhao, G; Zhukov, A; Zakharo, A (NAS RA Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, 2020-12)
    The parameterization of stars is a well known problem and used for various purposes in astronomy. We have shown that multicolor photometric data from large modern surveys can be used for parameterization of stars. With ...
  • Stellar libraries as used in ISM modelling 
    Murthy, J (Astronomical Society of India, 2012)
    I present the use of stellar libraries in interstellar medium work. Stars are used as background sources against which interstellar absorption lines are observed and their modeling is necessary in order to set the baseline ...
  • Studies of diffuse UV radiation 
    Sujatha, N. V; Murthy, J (Astronomical Society of India, 2007-06)
    The upcoming TAUVEX mission is expected to provide us with high quality data from observations over large parts of the sky in different wavelength bands. We propose to use this data for the study of diffuse radiation field ...
  • Study of bubble nebula using IUE high resolution spectra 
    Anand, M. Y; Kagali, B. A; Murthy, J (Astronomical Society of India, 2009-06)
    In this paper, we have analyzed IUE high resolution spectra of the central star (BD+602522) of the Bubble nebula. We discuss velocities of the different regions along the line of sight to the bubble. We find that the Bubble ...
  • A study of the star-forming regions in the spiral galaxy NGC 2336 using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) 
    Rahna, P. T; Mousumi Das; Murthy, J; Gudennavar, S. B; Bubbly, S. G (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018-11)
    We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) and near-ultraviolet (NUV) imaging study at 1.2 arcsec resolution of recent star formation in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2336 using the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on-board ...
  • Study of UV bright sources in globular cluster NGC 4590 using Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) observations 
    Kumar, Ranjan; Pradhan, Ananta C; Parthasarathy, M; Piridi, Sonika; Cassisi, Santi; Ojha, Devendra K; Mohapatra, Abhisek; Murthy, J (Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society, 2022-04)
    We have studied ultraviolet (UV) bright sources in the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) NGC 4590 using Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard the AstroSat satellite. Using UV-optical colour–magnitude diagrams (CMDs), we ...
  • Survey of O VI absorption in the Large Magellanic Cloud 
    Pathak, A; Pradhan, A. C; Sujatha, N. V; Murthy, J (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-04)
    We present a survey of interstellar O VI absorption in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) towards 70 lines of sight based on Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations. The survey covers O VI absorption in a ...

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