1. The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard Aditya-L1
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Durgesh Tripathi, Achim Gandorfer, C. Rajarshi, Dibyendu Nandy, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Dipankar Banerjee, Natalie A. Krivova, Aafaque R. Khan, Avyarthana Ghosh, S. Sriram, Pravin Chordia, Sami K. Solanki, and Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash
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Physics ,Solar conjunction ,Astronomy ,Coronal loop ,Space weather ,Solar irradiance ,01 natural sciences ,Solar cycle ,010309 optics ,Physics::Space Physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope ,Coronal mass ejection ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Chromosphere - 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–Chretien 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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- 2016