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  • 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope Project: Completion and first results 
    Kumar, Brijesh; Omar, A; Maheswar, G; Pandey, A. K; Sagar, R; Uddin, W; Sanwal, B. B; Bangia, T; Kumar, T. S; Yadav, S; Sahu, S; Pant, J; Reddy, B. K; Gupta, A. C; Chand, H; Pandey, J. C; Joshi, M. K; Jaiswar, M; Nanjappa, N; Purushottam; Yadav, R. K. S; Sharma, S; Pandey, S. B; Joshi, S; Joshi, Y. C; Lata, S; Mehdi, B. J; Misra, K; Singh, M (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    We present an update on the 3.6-m aperture optical telescope, which has been installed at Devasthal in the year 2016. In this paper, a brief overview of installation activities at site and first results are presented. The ...
  • The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope 
    Surdej, J; Hickson, P; Borra, E; Swings, J; Habraken, S; Akhunov, T; Bartczak, P; Chand, H; De Becker, M; Delchambre, L; Finet, F; Kumar, B; Pandey, A; Pospieszalska, A; Pradhan, B; Sagar, R; Wertz, O; De Cat, P; Denis, S; de Ville, J; Jaiswar, M. K; Lampens, P; Nanjappa, N; Tortolani, J (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is presently (March-June 2017) being erected on the ARIES site in Devasthal (Uttarakhand). We describe and illustrate in the present paper its different components. ...
  • The 50cm robotic telescope: control system upgrade and automation 
    Stanzin, Tsewang; Jorphail, S; Parihar, P. S; Angchuk, D; Dorjai, T; Gyalson, T; Mahey, T. T; Dorjay, Padma; Dorjay, Phuntsok; Phunchok, Tsewang; Pamber, Tashi; Stanzin, Urgain; Angdu, Skalzang (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    We describe the details into the design and development of a low-cost yet efficient telescope control system (TCS) and observatory control software (OCS) for the 50cm telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory. The ...
  • Active and adaptive optics for the new generation of large telescopes 
    Saxena, A. K; Love, G (Indian Academy of Sciences, 1994-03)
  • An Astronomical Polarimeter 
    Deshpande, M. R; Joshi, U. C; Kulshrestha, A. K; Banshidar; Vadher, N. M; Mazumdar, H. S; Pradhan, S. N; Shah, C. R (Astronomical Society of India, 1985-06)
    A polarimeter for the study of astronomical objects has been developed and calibrated. Observations of several objects have been made. The polarimeter covers the spectral range from 3150 A to 8500 A in standard N, U, B, ...
  • Computationally efficient method for retrieval of atmospherically distorted astronomical images 
    Surya, A; Saha, S. K (Springer, 2014-12)
    Speckle Imaging based on triple correlation is a very efficient image reconstruction technique which is used to retrieve Fourier phase information of the object in presence of atmospheric turbulence. We have developed both ...
  • DarpanX: A python package for modeling X-ray reflectivity of multilayer mirrors 
    Mondal, B; Vadawale, S. V; Mithun, N. P. S; Vaishnava, C. S; Tiwari, N. K; Goyal, S. K; Panini, S. S; Navalkar, V; Karmakar, C; Patel, M. R; Upadhyay, R. B (Elsevier B.V, 2021-01)
    Multilayer X-ray mirrors consist of a coating of a large number of alternate layers of high Z and low Z materials with a typical thickness of 10–100 Å , on a suitable substrate. Such coatings play an important role in ...
  • Design and development of WFOS, the Wide-Field Optical Spectrograph for the Thirty Meter Telescope 
    Steidel, Charles; Peng, Eric; Fucik, Jason; Nash, Reston; Kaye, Stephen; Jacoby, George; Delabre, Bernard; Ramya, S; Divakar, Devika; Varshney, Hari Mohan; Sivarani, T; Uraguchi, Fumihiro; Ozaki, Shinobu; Ji, Hangxin; Tao, L V; Chiu, Kent; Zhu, Qinfeng; Andersen, David; Miles, John; Lasi, Davide (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    We present the current design of WFOS, a wide-field UV/optical (0.31-1.0 µm) imaging spectrograph planned for first-light on the TMT International Observatory 30 m telescope. WFOS is optimized for high sensitivity across ...
  • Facilities at Indian Institute of Astrophysics and New Initiatives 
    Bhatt, B. C (Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege, 2018-04)
    The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is a premier national institute of India for the study of and research into topics pertaining to astronomy, astrophysics and related subjects. The Institute’s main campus in Bangalore ...
  • Flexure compensation simulation tool for TMT-WFOS spectrograph 
    Surya, Arun; Radovan, Matthew; Sivarani, T; Sriram, S; Devika, Divakar; Fucik, Jason (SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018-07)
    The Wide Field Optical Spectrograph (WFOS) is one of the first-light instruments of Thirty Meter Telescope. It is a medium resolution, multi object, wide field optical spectrograph. Since 2005 the conceptual design of the ...
  • Hanle echelle spectrograph: design and performance 
    Sriram, S; Amit Kumar; Arun Surya; Sivarani, T; Giridhar, S; Kathiravan, S; Anand, M. N; Jones, D; Grobler, D; Jakobsson, R; Anantha, Ch; Athira Unni; Angchuk, D; Tsewang, D; Gyalson, T (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018-07-06)
    Hanle echelle spectrograph (HESP) is a high resolution, bench mounted, fiber-fed spectrograph at visible wavelengths. The instrument was recently installed at the 2m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), located at Indian ...
  • High precision full stokes spectropolarimetry of the sun as a star instrument design aspects 
    Souvik Bose (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2016-07)
    The sun is very interesting particularly because it is very dynamic. The magnetic field plays a major role in governing dynamics of the sun. Many interesting features like sunspots, flares, prominences, and Coronal Mass ...
  • A high-speed two-star photometer 
    Venkat Rao, G (Astronomical Society of India, 1990-03)
    Design and performance of a high-speed two-star photometer are presented in this paper. It is an ideal instrument for investigations of time variations of variable stars
  • 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 ...
  • Indian Institute of Astrophysics: Facilities 
    Prabhu, T. P; Kochhar, R. K (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 1987)
  • Innovations and advances in instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory, vol. II 
    Kassis, Marc F; Allen, Steve; Alvarez, Carlos; Banyal, R. K; Bertz, Robert; Beichman, Charles; Brown, Aaron; Brown, Matthew; Cabak, Gerald; Bundy, Kevin; Cetre, Sylvain; Chin, Jason; Chun, Mark; Deich, Will; Dekany, Richard; Delorme, Jacques; Devenot, Mark; Doppmann, Greg; Fitzgerald, Michael P; Fucik, Jason R; Hill, Grant; Hinz, Philip; Holden, Bradford P; Howard, Andrew; Gao, Maodong; Gibson, Steve; Gomez, Percy; Gottschalk, Colby; Gillingham, Peter R; Jones, Tucker; Jovanovic, Nemanja; Kirby, Evan; Konopacky, Quinn; Krishnan, Shanti; Kupke, Renate; Larkin, James E.; Leife, Stephanie D; Lewis, Hilton A; Lilley, Scott; Lu, Jessica; Lyk, James E; MacDonald, Nick; Marin, Eduardo; Matuszewski, Matt; Mawet, Dimitri; McGurk, Rosalie; A Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell; Nash, Reston B; Nance, Craig; Neill, James D; M. O'Meara, John; Peretz, Eliad; Poppett, Claire L; Mather, John C; Radovan, Matthew V; Roberts, Mitsuko K; Ragland, Sam; Rider, Kodi; Rockosi, Constance M; Sandfor, Dale; Shen, Boqiang; Steidel, Charles C; Simha, Sunil; Skemer, Andy; Stelter, Deno; Surendran, Avinash; Thorne, James; McCarney, Ben; Lanclos, Kyle; Baker, Ashley; Rubenzah, Ryan; Roy, Arpita; Halverson, Sam; Edelstein, Jerry; Martin, Christopher; Savage, Maureen; Sandford, Dale; Sallum, Stephanie; Walawender, Josh; Wizinowich, Peter; Westfall, Kyle B; Vahala, Kerry J; Wright, Shelley; Wold, Truman; Yeh, Sherry (SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2022-08)
    Since the start of science operations in 1993, the twin 10-meter W. M. Keck Observatory (WMKO) telescopes have continued to maximize their scientific impact and to produce transformative discoveries that keep the observing ...
  • Instrumentation of "Solar X-Ray Spectrometer" Low Energy Detector (SLD) - Proposed payload onboard Indian satellite 
    Vadher, N. M; Shah, A. B; Rajmal, J; Vats, H. O; Deshpande, M. R; Seetha, S; Murthy; Sharma, R. K; Umapathy (Astronomical Society of India, 2000)
    It is proposed to fly a high spectral and temporal resolution - "Solar X-Ray Spectrometer (SOXS)" onboard Indian satellite. The SOXS will provide the disk integrated flux in the energy range 2 keV-10 MeV. It is composed ...
  • IR-IMAC - A developmental approach 
    Vidhya, V; Kamath, U. S; Vidhya, R (Astronomical Society of India, 2004-03)
    IR-IMAC is a multi-utility software package developed to remotely control the Near-Infrared imager installed on the 2-metre Himalayan Chandra Telescope at Mt. Saraswati, Hanle. The core idea in the development of IR-IMAC ...
  • Kepler Object of Interest Network I. First results combining ground- and space-based observations of Kepler systems with transit timing variations 
    Von Essen, C; Ofir, A; Dreizler, S; Agol, E; Freudenthal, J; Hernández, J; Wedemeyer, S; Parkash, V; Deeg, H. J; Hoyer, S; Morris, B. M; Becker, A. C; Sun, L; Gu, S. H; Herrero, E; Tal-Or, L; Poppenhaeger, K; Mallonn, M; Albrecht, S; Khalafinejad, S; Boumis, P; Delgado-Correal, C; Fabrycky, D. C; Janulis, R; Lalitha, S; Liakos, A; Mikolaitis, S; Moyano D-Angelo, M. L; Sokov, E; Pakstiene, E; Popov, A; Krushinsky, V; Ribas, I; Rodríguez S, M. M; Rusov, S; Sokova, I; Tautvaisiene, G; Wang, X (EDP Sciences, 2018-07)
    During its four years of photometric observations, the Kepler space telescope detected thousands of exoplanets and exoplanet candidates. One of Kepler’s greatest heritages has been the confirmation and characterization of ...
  • A new computer-controlled multi-channel high voltage supply system for GRACE instrumentation 
    Manna, A; Chakrabarti, S; Mukhopadhayay, P. K (Astronomical Society of India, 2002)
    The high energy gamma ray telescopes being set up by the Bhabha Atomic Research Institute Centre (BARC) at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, as part of the GRACE project, require a very large number (~ 1000) of programmable high voltage ...

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