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The infrared astronomy group of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has been pursuing astronomical instrumentation activities since its inception. The group has been routinely involved in a balloon-borne astronomy program from field station at Hyderabad with indigenously developed payloads. Ground-based astronomical activities began with a single element infrared detector. Later, over time, larger format array detectors are being used in the cameras. These astronomy cameras have been routinely used at observatories across India. Recently, the group has also developed a laboratory model of the infrared spectroscopic imaging survey payload, targeted for the small satellite mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation, which will carry out spectroscopic measurements in the wavelength range 1.7–6.4 \(\mu \hbox {m}\) seamlessly.
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The authors are very much thankful to the reviewer for their critical and valuable comments, which helped us to improve the paper. This work is supported by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. SG, DKO and MBN acknowledge the support of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under project identification no. RTI 4002. They also thank all the members of the IRA group at TIFR for their support during observations. The authors would like to thank the staff at the 3.6m DOT, Devasthal and ARIES, for their cooperation during the installation and characterization of TIRCAM2 and TANSPEC and the staff of IAO, Hanle and CREST, Hosakote, that made TIRSPEC observations possible. The authors are thankful to Mr. Douglas W. Toomey and the entire MKIR team for their contribution to the TIRSPEC and TANSPEC projects.
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GHOSH, S., OJHA, D.K., SHARMA, S. et al. TIFR treasures for astronomy from ground to space. J Astrophys Astron 43, 16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-022-09800-3
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