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- Title
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on AstroSat.
- Authors
Tandon, S. N.; Ghosh, S. K.; Hutchings, J.; Stalin, C. S.; Subramaniam, A.
- Abstract
The AstroSat satellite is designed for multi-wavelength astronomy for observations covering a spectral range from soft and hard X-rays to the ultra-violet. The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) is the only non-X-ray telescope on AstroSat and it provides the long lever arm to the multi-wavelength observations. In addition to the simultaneous multi-wavelength studies in coordination with the X-ray telescopes on-board AstroSat, UVIT is used to study a large variety of objects with arcsecond-level spatial resolution. During the first year of observations, UVIT has obtained images in many filter bands in the wavelength range 130-300 nm over a field of ~28', which are being used to study a variety of hot stars, nebulae, stellar clusters and galaxies.
- Subjects
ASTROSAT (Satellite); ULTRAVIOLET telescopes; ULTRAVIOLET astronomy; X-ray telescopes; HARD X-rays
- Publication
Current Science (00113891), 2017, Vol 113, Issue 4, p583
- ISSN
0011-3891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18520/cs/v113/i04/583-586