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Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING): instrument design, assembly and calibration

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dc.contributor.author Bharat Chandra, P
dc.contributor.author Binukumar, G
dc.contributor.author Shubham Jankiram, Ghatul
dc.contributor.author Jain, Shubhangi
dc.contributor.author Sriram, S
dc.contributor.author Mahesh Babu, S
dc.contributor.author Mohan, Rekhesh
dc.contributor.author Safonova, M
dc.contributor.author Murthy, J
dc.contributor.author Sachkov, Mikhail
dc.date.accessioned 2024-06-14T04:56:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-06-14T04:56:38Z
dc.date.issued 2024-06
dc.identifier.citation Experimental Astronomy, Vol. 57, No. 3, 18 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0922-6435
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2248/8473
dc.description Restricted Access en_US
dc.description The original publication is available at the springerlink.com
dc.description.abstract The Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) low-resolution spectrograph payload designed to operate in the NUV range, 1400 Å – 2700 Å, from a stable space platform. SING telescope has a primary aperture of 298 mm, feeding the light to the long-slit UV spectrograph. SING has a field of view (FOV) of 1◦, achieving a spatial resolution of 1.33 arcminute and spectral resolution of 3.7 Å(R ∼ 600) at the central wavelength. SING employs a micro-channel plate (MCP) with a CMOS readout-based photon-counting detector. The instrument is designed to observe diffuse sources such as nebulae, supernova remnants, and the interstellar medium (ISM) to understand their chemistry. SING was selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to be hosted on the Chinese Space Station. The instrument will undergo qualification tests as per the launch requirements. In this paper, we describe the hardware design, optomechanical assembly, and calibration of the instrument. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Springer Nature en_US
dc.relation.uri https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-024-09937-9
dc.rights © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2024
dc.subject UV astronomy en_US
dc.subject Space payload en_US
dc.subject Telescopes en_US
dc.subject Spectrograph en_US
dc.title Spectroscopic Investigation of Nebular Gas (SING): instrument design, assembly and calibration en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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