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dc.contributor.author Venkatakrishnan, P
dc.contributor.author Mathew, S. K
dc.contributor.author Srivastava, N
dc.contributor.author Bayanna, A. R
dc.contributor.author Kumar, B
dc.contributor.author Ramya, B
dc.contributor.author Jain, N
dc.contributor.author Saradava, M
dc.date.accessioned 2020-11-10T02:03:29Z
dc.date.available 2020-11-10T02:03:29Z
dc.date.issued 2017-08
dc.identifier.citation Current Science, Vol. 113, No. 4, pp. 686 - 690 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0011-3891
dc.identifier.uri http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/6705
dc.description Open Access © Current Science Association http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/113/04/0686.pdf en_US
dc.description.abstract Multi Application Solar Telescope (MAST), a telescope for the detailed study of solar activity, was operationalized at the Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO) of Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), on 16 June 2015. This article traces the history of the conceptualization to realization of MAST and describes its salient features. MAST is an off-axis Gregorian-Coudé telescope with a 50 cm aperture. The first light backend instruments include a narrow band polarimetric imager to map the photospheric and chromospheric magnetic fields and a multi-slit spectro-polarimeter. An adaptive optics system is also being developed for the on-line corrections of the image distortions produced by atmospheric seeing. The main objective of MAST is to obtain high spatial and temporal resolution observations of solar photospheric and chromospheric activity, with the ultimate goal of predicting space weather en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Current Science Association en_US
dc.subject Adaptive optics en_US
dc.subject Celestial sky en_US
dc.subject instruments en_US
dc.subject solar telescope en_US
dc.subject dome en_US
dc.title The Multi Application Solar Telescope en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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