The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard Aditya-L1

Avyarthana Ghosh; Subhamoy Chatterjee; Aafaque R. Khan; Durgesh Tripathi; A. N. Ramaprakash; Dipankar Banerjee; Pravin Chordia; Achim M. Gandorfer; Natalie Krivova; Dibyendu Nandy; Chaitanya Rajarshi; Sami K. Solanki; S. Sriram

doi:10.1117/12.2232266

18 July 2016 The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard Aditya-L1

Avyarthana Ghosh, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Aafaque R. Khan, Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Dipankar Banerjee, Pravin Chordia, Achim M. Gandorfer, Natalie Krivova, Dibyendu Nandy, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Sami K. Solanki, S. Sriram

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Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 990503 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232266
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the first dedicated solar mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which will be put in a halo orbit at the Sun-Earth Langrage point (L1). SUIT has an off-axis Ritchey–Chrétien configuration with a combination of 11 narrow and broad bandpass filters which will be used for full-disk solar imaging in the Ultravoilet (UV) wavelength range 200-400 nm. It will provide near simultaneous observations of lower and middle layers of the solar atmosphere, namely the Photosphere and Chromosphere. These observations will help to improve our understanding of coupling and dynamics of various layers of the solar atmosphere, mechanisms responsible for stability, dynamics and eruption of solar prominences and Coronal Mass ejections, and possible causes of solar irradiance variability in the Near and Middle UV regions, which is of central interest for assessing the Sun’s influence on climate.

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Avyarthana Ghosh, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Aafaque R. Khan, Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Dipankar Banerjee, Pravin Chordia, Achim M. Gandorfer, Natalie Krivova, Dibyendu Nandy, Chaitanya Rajarshi, Sami K. Solanki, and S. Sriram "The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard Aditya-L1", Proc. SPIE 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 990503 (18 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232266

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