Since the advent of the satellite era, X-ray astronomy and UV astronomy have advanced tremendously. The discovery of intense X-ray emission from accreting compact objects has permitted very detailed timing and spectral ...

The scanning sky monitor (SSM) on the ASTROSAT is an instrument to be used for detecting and locating new x-ray transients and to study the long term behavior of the known bright x-ray sources in the celestial sphere. ...

Some of the significant areas of astronomy that would be persued by UVIT, one of the payloads on the proposed Indian multiwavelength astronomy satellite ASTROSAT, is described. Some of the considerations and uniqueness of ...