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  • The near ultraviolet transient surveyor (NUTS): An ultraviolet telescope to observe variable sources 
    Ambily, S; Sarpotda, Mayuresh; Mathew, Joice; Binukumar, G; Sreejith, A. G; Nirmal, K; Murthy, J; Safonova, M; Mohan, Rekhesh; Aggarval, Vinod Kumar; Nagabhushanam, S; Jeeragal, Sachin (Springer, 2022-08)
    Observing the ultraviolet (UV) sky for time-varyiable phenomena is one of the many exciting science goals that can be achieved by a relatively small aperture telescope in space. The Near Ultraviolet Transient Surveyor ...
  • Near UV imager with an MCP-based photon counting detector 
    Ambily, S; Mathew, J; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Sreejith, A. G; Nirmal, K; Prakash, A; Safonova, M; Murthy, J (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016-07)
    We are developing a compact UV Imager using light weight components, that can be own on a small CubeSat or a balloon platform. The system has a lens-based optics that can provide an aberration-free image over a wide field ...
  • 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 ...
  • O VI absorption in the milky way along the large magellanic cloud lines of sight 
    Sarma, R; Pathak, A; Pradhan, A. C; Murthy, J; Sarma, J. K (Elsevier B.V, 2014-03-15)
    We have used Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to determine the O vi column densities in the Milky Way (MW) towards 6 LMC lines of sight. The mean column density ...
  • O VI Asymmetry and an Accelerated Outflow in an Obscured Seyfert: FUSE and HST STIS Spectroscopy of Mrk 533 
    Shastri, P; Murthy, J; Whittle, Mark; Wills, B. J (The American Astronomical Society, 2006-07-20)
    We present far-ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 2 galaxy Mrk 533 obtained with FUSE. These spectra show narrow asymmetrical O VI λλ1032,1038 emission lines with stronger wings shortward of the peak wavelength, but the ...
  • Observations of Far-ultraviolet Diffuse Emission from the Small Magellanic Cloud 
    Pradhan, A. C; Murthy, J; Pathak, A (IOP Publishing, 2011-12-10)
    We report the first observations of far-ultraviolet (FUV: 1000-1150 Å) diffuse radiation from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using observations from the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. The strength of FUV diffuse ...
  • Observations of O vi absorption from the superbubbles of the large magellanic cloud 
    Pradhan, A. C; Pathak, A; Murthy, J; Ojha, D. K (Cambridge University Press, 2014-01)
    We have presented the observations of O VI absorption at 1032 Å towards 22 sightlines in 10 superbubbles (SBs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the data obtained from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ...
  • Observations of the Diffuse Far-Ultraviolet Background with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer 
    Murthy, J; Sahnow, D. J (The American Astronomical Society, 2004-11)
    We have used observations taken under the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) S405/505 channel realignment program to explore the diffuse far-ultraviolet (FUV; 1000-1200 Å) radiation field. Of the 71 independent ...
  • Observations of the near and far ultraviolet background 
    Murthy, J (Springer, 2009-04)
    The diffuse ultraviolet radiation field is seen over the entire sky and is a tracer of both the hot (in the form of lines such as CIV and OVI) and cold component (in the form of interstellar dust or molecular hydrogen) of ...
  • Opportunities for astrophysical science from the inner and outer solar system 
    Zemcov, Michael; Arcavi, Iair; Arendt, Richard G; Bachelet, Etienne; Beichman, Chas; Bock, James; Brandt, Pontus; Ranga Ram Chary; Cooray, Asantha; Dragomir, Diana; Gorjian, Varoujan; Harman, Chester E; Henry, Richard Conn; Lisse, Carey; Lubin, Philip; Matsuura, Shuji; McNutt, Ralph; Murthy, J; Poppe, Andrew R; Paul, Michael V; Reach, William T; Shvartzvald, Yossi; Street, R A; Symons, Teresa; Werner, Michael (American Astronomical Society, 2019-05)
    Astrophysical measurements away from the 1 AU orbit of Earth can enable several astrophysical science cases that are challenging or impossible to perform from Earthbound platforms, including: building a detailed understanding ...
  • Opto-mechanical assembly and ground calibration of LUCI 
    Mathew, J; Nair, B. G; Sriram, S; Kamath, P. U; Prakash, A; Mayuresh, Sarpotdar; Ambily, S; Nirmal, K; Sreejith, A. G; Safonova, M; Murthy, J; Brosch, N (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018-08-20)
    The Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI) is an innovative all-spherical mirrors telescope, proposed to fly as a scientific UV imaging payload on a lunar mission in collaboration with Indian Aerospace Company-TeamIndus, ...
  • Photometric identification of objects from Galaxy Evolution Explorer Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey 
    Preethi, K; Gudennavar, S. B; Bubbly, S. G; Murthy, J; Brosch, N (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014-01-01)
    We have used Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) observations to extract seven band photometric magnitudes for over 80 000 objects in the vicinity of the North Galactic Pole. Although these ...
  • Planetary nebulae with UVIT II. Revelations from far-UV vision of Butterfly nebula NGC 6302 
    Kameswara Rao, N; De Marco, O; Sriram, K; Murthy, J; Ray, A; Sutaria, F. K; Mohan, Rekhesh (EDP Sciences, 2018-12)
    The high excitation planetary nebula, NGC 6302, has been imaged in two far-ultraviolet (FUV) filters, F169M (Sapphire; λeff: 1608 Å)and F172M (Silica; λeff: 1717 Å) and two near-UV (NUV) filters, N219M (B15; λeff: 2196 Å) ...
  • Planetary nebulae with UVIT: A progress report 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Sutaria, F; Murthy, J; Ray, A; Pandey, G (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    The spectral region between 1250–3000 A contains important spectral lines to understand the ˚ morphological structures and evolution of planetary nebulae. This is the region sampled by UVIT through various filter bands ...
  • Planetary nebulae with UVIT: Far ultra-violet halo around the Bow Tie nebula (NGC 40) 
    Kameswara Rao, N; Sutaria, F. K; Murthy, J; Sriram, K; Mohan, Rekhesh; Ray, A (EDP Sciences, 2018-01)
    Context. NGC 40 is a planetary nebula with diffuse X-ray emission, suggesting an interaction of the high-speed wind from WC8 cen- tral star (CS) with the nebula. It shows strong C IV 1550 Å emission that cannot be ...
  • 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 ...

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