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In-orbit performance of UVIT over the past 5 years
Over the last 5 years, UVIT has completed observations of more than 500 proposals with \(\sim 800\) ...
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Article
In-orbit Performance of UVIT and First Results
The performance of the ultraviolet telescope (UVIT) on-board AstroSat is reported. The performance in orbit is also compared with estimates made from the calibrations done on the ground. The sensitivity is fou...
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The UVIT telescopes on the Astrosat observatory
The UVIT telescopes are a payload package on the ISRO Astrosat observatory. They are co-aligned with three X-ray telescopes, and will operate simultaneously with them. The overall observatory is summarized, an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Altair Observations of 3C273
H and J band observations of 3C273 from the commissioning run of Altair are presented. The data are compared with HST data, and some new morphological results on the host galaxy are discussed.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Search for the First Massive Galaxy Clusters
We have obtained deep, multi-band imaging observations around three of the most distant known quasars at redshifts z>6. Standard accretion theory predicts that the supermassive black holes present in these quasar...
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Chapter
Kinematics and Morphology of the Resolved Narrow Line Region in NGC 4151
A complement of HST narrow band images, STIS slitless and long-slit spectra have been employed to probe the morphology, kinematics, dynamics, and ionization structure of the near-nuclear region in NGC 4151. The i...
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Kinematics and Morphology of the Resolved Narrow Line Region in NGC 4151
A complement of HST narrow band images, STIS slitless and long-slit spectra have been employed to probe the morphology, kinematics, dynamics, and ionization structure of the near-nuclear region in NGC 4151. The i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cfht Adaptive Optics Imaging Of Active Galaxies
The CFHT adaptive optics camera uses a visible light guide signal from a star to operate a bimorph mirror. The system is a unit that is operated by the observer and can be used with CCD or HgCdTe detectors. Pi...
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Chapter
The CNOC Cluster Survey
Rich galaxy clusters are powerful probes of both cosmological and galaxy evolution parameters. The CNOC cluster survey was primarily designed to distinguish between Ω = 1 and Ω ≃ 0.2 cosmologies. Projected for...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The CNOC Cluster Survey
The CNOC cluster survey was designed to measure the cluster mass to light ratio and the luminosity density of the Universe in the same range of redshifts for the purpose of estimating the parameter Ω. We find tha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Resolution of High Redshift QSO Hosts
At z>2 a surprising number of QSOs have been resolved in visible light. These results imply that these hosts have extremely high luminosity and blue populations. Improved and quantitative data require a combin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
JHK Imaging of QSO Hosts and Companions
Deep J,H,K imaging is presented of 90 arcmin fields around QSOs at red-shifts in the range 0.06 to 2.4, including images, luminosity profiles, and NIR 2-colour diagrams. The low z hosts are all resolved, and N...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quasar Radio Structure in Cluster Environments
We have VLA snapshots at 6cm and 20cm of ~50 QSOs of redshift ≤0.7 with a range of known optical galaxy environments. The radio sources were characterised by measures of flux, size, and shape. The cluster dens...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Non-LTE model atmosphere analysis of the supersoft X-ray source RX J0122.9-7521
The supersoft X-ray source RX J0122.9-7521 was discovered in the ROSAT all-sky survey and suspected to be a member of the Small Magellanic Cloud (Kahabka et al. 1994). More recently the source has been optical...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Populations in the Z=0.23 Rich Cluster Abell 2390
We have spectra, colours and morphologies from the CFHT for 240 cluster members and 80 field galaxies over a 7 × 46 arcmin field. The cluster galaxies show strong radial gradients in colour, morphology, and sp...
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Chapter
Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Massive Hot Stars in the Magellanic Clouds and M31
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) high signal to noise spectrograms were obtained for 15 OB stars in the Magellanic Clouds***, three of which are of spectral type O...
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Chapter
Astronomy from Space
The period covered by this report has seen very significant progress in the different fields of space. astronomy. In the infrared and submillimeter region the cosmic Background Explorer has continued to domina...
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Article
Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy of massive hot stars in the Magellanic Clouds and M31
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) high signal to noise spectrograms were obtained for 15 OB stars in the Magellanic Clouds***, three of which are of spectral type O3. ...
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Article
An imaging optical/UV monitor for X-ray astronomy observatories
The understanding of high-energy astrophysical sources often depends on observations over the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Yet, extensive multifrequency observing campaigns can consume the resources of a l...
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Article
Are QSOs activated by interactions between galaxies?
In a sample of 45 quasistellar objects (QSOs) with redshift 0.62 or less, a large fraction (>30%) appear to be currently interacting with another galaxy. All but three of the QSOs reside within nebulosity inte...