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  • Generation of a Near Infra-Red Guide Star Catalog for Thirty-Meter Telescope Observations 
    Subramanian, S; Subramaniam, A; Simard, L; Gillies, K; Ramaprakash, A. N; Anupama, G. C; Stalin, C. S; Ravindranath, S; Reddy, B. E (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2013-06)
    The requirements for the production of a near Infra-Red Guide Star Catalog (IRGSC) for Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) observations are identified and presented. A methodology to compute the expected J band magnitude of stellar ...
  • India's participation in the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory project 
    Reddy, B. E; Ramaprakash, A. N (Current Science Association, 2017-08)
    The Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory (TIO) is being built by an international consortium of institutes and universities in Canada, China, India, Japan and USA. The estimated cost is about US$ 1.47 billion ...
  • India-TMT project—science instrumentation program 
    Sivarani, T; Ramya, S; Sriram, S; Divakar, Devika; Surya, Arun; Varshney, Hari Mohan; Kambala, Sudarshan; Hasan, Amirul; Prakash, A; Govinda, K. V; Viswanatha; Anupama, G. C; Maheswar, G; Ojha, D; Pandey, S. B; Pandey, J; Puravankara, M; Ramaprakash, A. N; Reddy, B. E; Shah, Sarang; Srianand, R; Subramaniam, A; Subramanian, S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2022-12)
    The future of astronomy in the coming decades will be shaped by the upcoming three extremely large optical telescopes, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the European Large Telescope ...
  • 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 cometary globules – IV. LBN 437 
    Soam, A; Maheswar, G; Bhatt, H. C; Won Lee, C; Ramaprakash, A. N (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2013-06-21)
    We present results of our R-band polarimetry of a cometary globule, LBN 437 (Gal 96-15, ℓ = 96°, b = −15°), to study the magnetic field geometry of the cloud. We estimated a distance of 360 ± 65 pc to LBN 437 (also one ...
  • Magnetic fields in molecular clouds 
    Ramaprakash, A. N; Gupta, R; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1998)
  • Multi-band monitoring and polarimetry of GRB afterglows with the IUCAA telescope 
    Ramaprakash, A. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    The IUCAA 2m telescope which is scheduled to be available for observations in early 2002, will initially have two instruments at its f/10 Cassegrain focii - the IUCAA FAint Object Spectrograph Camera (IFOSC) and the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Optical spectroscopic and polarization properties of 2011 outburst of the recurrent nova T Pyxidis 
    Pavana, M; Ramya, M. Anche; Anupama, G. C; Ramaprakash, A. N; Selvakumar, G (EDP Sciences, 2019-02)
    Aims. We aim to study the spectroscopic and ionized structural evolution of T Pyx during its 2011 outburst, and also study the variation in degree of polarization during its early phase. Methods. Optical spectroscopic data ...
  • A road map for the generation of a near-infrared guide star catalog for thirty meter telescope observations 
    Subramanian, S; Subramaniam, A; Sivarani, T; Simard, Luc; Anupama, G. C; Gillies, Kim; Ramaprakash, A. N; Reddy, B. E (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2016-09)
    The near-infrared instruments in the upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be assisted by a multi conjugate Adaptive Optics (AO) system. For the efficient operation of the AO system, during observations, a near-infrared ...
  • Scalable platform for adaptive optics real-time control, part 1: concept, architecture, and validation 
    Surendran, Avinash; Burse, Mahesh P.; Ramaprakash, A. N; Paul, Jyotirmay; Das, Hillol K.; Parihar, P. S (SPIE-Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2018-07)
    We demonstrate an architecture for adaptive optics (AO) control based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), making active use of their configurable parallel processing capability. The unique capabilities of scalable ...
  • Scalable platform for adaptive optics real-time control, part 2: field programmable gate array implementation and performance 
    Surendran, Avinash; Burse, Mahesh P.; Ramaprakash, A. N; Parihar, P. S (SPIE-Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2018-07)
    The next generation of adaptive optics (AO) systems on large telescopes will require immense computation performance and memory bandwidth, both of which are challenging with the technology available today. The objective ...
  • 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.
  • The solar ultraviolet imaging telescope onboard Aditya-L1 
    Ghosh, Avyarthana; Chatterjee, Subhamoy; Khan, Aafaque R; Tripathi, Durgesh; Ramaprakash, A. N; Banerjee, D; Chordia, P; Gandorfer, Achim; Krivova, N.A; Nandy, D; Rajarshi, Chaitanya; Solanki, S. K; Sriram, S (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2016-07)
    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 ...
  • The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope: detector characterization and readout electronics testing 
    Varma, Manoj; Tyagi, Anurag; Joshi, Bhushan; Yadav, Reena; Chordia, Pravin; Kumar, Ghanshyam; Sinha, Sakya; Burse, Mahesh; Padinhatteri, Sreejith; Deogaonkar, Rushikesh; Ramaprakash, A. N; Ghosh, Avyarthana; Tripathi, Durgesh; Sarkar, Janmejoy; Sankarasubramanian, K; Nagaraju, K; Vadodariya, Koushal; Kesharwani, Ravi; Khan, Aafaque; Olekar, Manjunath; Azaruddin, Mohamed (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023-01)
    The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is one of the payloads onboard the Aditya-L1 mission. It will perform full disc imaging of the Sun in the near-ultraviolet (UV) wavelength range of 200–400 nm. This provides ...
  • A study of the starless dark cloud LDN 1570: Distance, dust properties, and magnetic field geometry 
    Eswaraiah, C; Maheswar, G; Pandey, A. K; Jose, J; Ramaprakash, A. N; Bhatt, H. C (EDP Sciences, 2013-08)
    Aims. We aim to map the magnetic field geometry and to study the dust properties of the starless cloud, L1570, using multi-wavelength optical polarimetry and photometry of the stars projected on the cloud. Methods. The ...
  • Towards the development of the Infrared Guide Star Catalogue for the adaptive optics observations by the Thirty Meter Telescope 
    Shah, Sarang; Subramanian, S; Anupama, G. C; Delgado, Francisco; Gillies, Kim; Maheswar, G; Narayanan, Rajalakshmi; Ramaprakash, A. N; Rao, Suhasini; Reddy, B. E; Skidmore, Warren; Sivarani, T; Subramaniam, A (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    At first light, the NIR instruments of TMT will be assisted by a multi-conjugate adaptive optics instrument, known as the Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS). NFIRAOS will use laser guide stars for ...

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