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  • Additional calibration of the ultraviolet imaging telescope on board AstroSat 
    Tandon, S. N; Postma, J; Joseph, P; Devaraj, A; Subramaniam, A; Subramaniam, I. V; George, K; Ghosh, S. K; Girish, V; Hutchings, J. B; Kamath, P. U; Kathiravan, S; Kumar, A; Lancelo, J. P; Leahy, D; Mahesh, P. K; Mohan, R; Nagabhushana, S; Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sriram, S; Stalin, C. S (IOP Publishing, 2020-04)
    Results of the initial calibration of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) were reported earlier by Tandon et al. The results reported earlier were based on the ground calibration as well as the first observations in ...
  • ASTROSAT mission 
    Singh, Kulinder Pal; Tandon, S. N; Agrawal, P. C; Antia, H. M; Manchanda, R. K; Yadav, J. S; Seetha, S; Ramadevi, M. C; Rao, A. R; Bhattacharya, D; Paul, B; Sreekumar, P; Bhattacharyya, S; Stewart, G. C; Hutchings, J; Subramaniam, A; Ghosh, S. K; Murthy, J; Pati, A. K; Kameswara Rao, N; Stalin, C. S; Girish, V; Sankarasubramanian, K; Vadawale, S; Bhalerao, V. B; Dewangan, G. C; Dedhia, D. K; Hingar, M. K; Katoch, T. B; Kothare, A. T; Mirza, I; Mukerjee, K; Shah, H; Shah, P; Mohan, Rekhesh; Sangal, A. K; Nagabhusana, S; Sriram, S; Malkar, J. P; Sreekumar, S; Abbey, A. F; Hansford, G. M; Beardmore, A. P; Sharma, M. R; Murthy, S; Kulkarni, R; Meena, G; Babu, V. C; Postma, J (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2014-07)
    ASTROSAT is India’s first astronomy satellite that will carry an array of instruments capable of simultaneous observations in a broad range of wavelengths: from the visible, near ultraviolet (NUV), far-UV (FUV), soft X-rays ...
  • An automated pipeline for Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope 
    Ghosh, S. K; Tandon, S. N; Singh, S. K; Shelat, D. S; Tahlani, P; Singh, A. K; Srinivasan, T. P; Joseph, P; Devaraj, A; George, K; Mohan, R; Postma, J; Stalin, C. S (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2022-12)
    We describe a versatile pipeline for processing the data collected by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board Indian multi-wavelength astronomical satellite ASTROSAT. The UVIT instrument carries out simultaneous ...
  • Balloon-borne far-infrared mapping of galactic star forming regions 
    Das, B; Ghosh, S. K; Rengarajan, T. N; Verma, R. P; Iyengar, K. V. K; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1993)
    Large angular areas (greater than 500 sq arcmin each) covering the three Galactic star forming regions (NGC 2024, OMC-1/OMC-2, and IRAS 06058 + 2138 and its neighborhood) have been mapped in two FIR bands (58 and 150 ...
  • The Calibration of the UVIT Detectors for the ASTROSAT Observatory 
    Leahy, Denis; Postma, J; Hutchings, J. B; Tandon, S. N (Cambridge University Press, 2018-08)
    The UVIT ultraviolet and visual band detectors and electronics for the ASTROSAT observatory were calibrated in the vacuum laboratory at the University of Calgary. This work was supported by the Canadian Space Agengy and ...
  • Contamination control of UVIT 
    Kathiravan, S; Tandon, S. N; Prasad, B. R; Sriram, S; Pradeep, A; Vishnu, T; Mahesh, P. K; Kamath, P. U; Nagabhushana, S; Amit Kumar (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is one of the 5 instruments on AstroSat satellite, which was launched on September 28, 2015. UVIT was designed to make images with a resolution of <1.8′′, simultaneously in two ultraviolet ...
  • Curvit: An open-source Python package to generate light curves from UVIT data 
    Joseph, P; Stalin, C. S; Tandon, S. N; Ghosh, S. K (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2021-10)
    Curvit is an open-source Python package that facilitates the creation of light curves from the data collected by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength astronomical ...
  • Dissecting star formation in the "Atoms-for-Peace" galaxy UVIT observations of the post-merger galaxy NGC7252 
    George, K; Joseph, P; Cote, P; Ghosh, S. K; Hutchings, J. B; Mohan, Rekhesh; Postma, J; Sankarasubramanian, K; Sreekumar, P; Stalin, C. S; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N (EDP Sciences, 2018-06)
    Context. The tidal tails of post-merger galaxies exhibit ongoing star formation far from their disks. The study of such systems can be useful for our understanding of gas condensation in diverse environments. Aims. The ...
  • Eighth ESLAB Symposium on HII Regions and the Galactic Centre 
    Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 1974-09)
  • Exposure time calculator for IFOSC and sky background estimation 
    Chakraborty, P; Das, H. K; Tandon, S. N (Astronomical Society of India, 2005-12)
    Abstract. This paper describes a spectroscopy exposure time calculator for the faint object spectrograph, the \IUCAA Faint Object Spectrograph" (IFOSC). It is intended to provide reasonable estimates of exposure times for ...
  • Far infrared mapping of three galactic star forming regions 
    Ghosh, S. K; Mookerjea, B; Rengarajan, T. N; Tandon, S. N; Verma, R. P (Astronomical Society of India, 2001)
    Three Galactic star forming regions in the northern sky, viz., associated with W3(OH), S209 and S187 have been simultaneously mapped in two trans-IRAS far infrared (FIR) bands centered at ~ 140 and 200 μm using the TIFR ...
  • GASP XVIII: star formation quenching due to AGN feedback in the central region of a jellyfish galaxy 
    George, K; Poggianti, B. M; Bellhouse, C; Radovich, M; Fritz, J; Paladino, R; Bettoni, R D; Jaff, Y; Moretti, A; Gullieuszik, M; Vulcani, B; Fasano, G; Stalin, C. S; Subramaniam, A; Tandon, S. N (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019-08)
    We report evidence for star formation quenching in the central 8.6 kpc region of the jellyfish galaxy JO201 that hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN), while undergoing strong ram-pressure stripping. The ultraviolet imaging ...
  • The Horizontal Branch Population of NGC 1851 as Revealed by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) 
    Subramaniam, A; Snehalata Sahu; Postma, J; Cote, Patrick; Hutchings, J. B; Darukhanawalla, N; Chung, Chul; Tandon, S. N; Kameswara Rao, N; George, K; Ghosh, S. K; Girish, V; Murthy, J; Mohan, Rekhesh; Murthy, J; Pati, A. K; Sankarasubramanian, K; Stalin, C. S; Choudhury, S (IOP Publishing, 2017-12)
    The Horizontal Branch Population of NGC 1851 as Revealed by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope ( UVIT ) Annapurni Subramaniam 1 , Snehalata Sahu 1 , Joseph E. Postma 2 , Patrick Côté 3 , J. B. Hutchings 3 , ...
  • A hot companion to a blue straggler in NGC 188 as revealed by the ultra-violet imaging telescope (UVIT) on ASTROSAT 
    Subramaniam, A; Sindhu, N; Tandon, S. N; Kameswara Rao, N; Postma, J; Cote, Patrick; Hutchings, J. B; Ghosh, S. K; George, K; Girish, V (IOP Publishing, 2016-12-20)
    We present early results from the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board the ASTROSAT observatory. We report the discovery of a hot companion associated with one of the blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the old open ...
  • 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 ...

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