Tag Archives: ASTROSAT
Awk CZTI result from Crab pulsar
An instrument onboard the ISRO Astrosat space-telescope has studied how X-rays being emitted by the Crab pulsar are being polarised, and how such polarisation varies from one pulse to the next. This is very important information for understanding how pulsars … Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Crab pulsar, CZTI, Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, ISRO, NASA GEMS, neutron stars, Ooty radio telescope, POLIX, X-ray polarisation
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No Space Age for us
We are proud of ISRO’s being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases. Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Dennis Overbye, Hubble Space Telescope, Indian Space Research Organisation, Mars Orbiter Mission, Open Access, open knowledge, open science, reusable launch vehicle, Space Shuttle insignia
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‘World class’ optical telescope – India’s largest – to be activated near Nainital
The instrument is part of a widening foray into observational research in astronomy that India has undertaken since the 1960s, and bolstered with the successful launch of its first multi-wavelength satellite in September 2015. Continue reading
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Tagged Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Astronomy, ASTROSAT, Devasthal optical telescope, Ritchey-Chrétien design, spectroscope, Thirty Meter Telescope
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Ways of seeing
A lot of the physics of 2015 was about how the ways in which we study the natural world had been improved or were improving. Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, cryo-electron microscopy, Foldscope, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Large Hadron Collider, Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment, SESAME, Thirty Meter Telescope, Udaipur Solar Observatory
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Why this ASTROSAT instrument could be a game-changer for high-energy astrophysics
Between them, NASA’s Swift and NuSTAR telescopes have a blindspot that the CZTI instrument can efficiently bridge Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Imager, calibration, Compton scattering, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-ray Coordinates Network, Swift gamma-ray telescope
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Space is necessarily multifarious, ISRO
Here’s a great example of why space-exploration is a multifarious industry where it takes excellence on multiple fronts at the same time to make each mission a success, even on seemingly unrelated fronts. The example also shows the pride of financial … Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Mars, Mars Orbiter Mission, NASA
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The pitfalls of thinking that ASTROSAT will be ‘India’s Hubble’
The Hubble Space Telescope needs no introduction. It’s become well known for its stunning images of nebulae and star-fields, and it wouldn’t be amiss to say the telescope has even become synonymous with images of strange beauty often from distant cosmic … Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, Patrick McCray, Ritchey-Chrétien design, X-ray astronomy
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ISRO to launch India’s first astronomy satellite on September 28
India’s first astronomy satellite will be launched on September 28. ISRO has noted that while it has launched payloads capable of making astronomical observations before, this is the first time one dedicated to astronomy will be launched. Called ASTROSAT, it was first … Continue reading
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Tagged ASTROSAT, Hubble Space Telecope, ISRO, multiwavelength astronomy, Soft X-ray Telescope
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