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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 \(\sim 800\) ...

    S. K. Ghosh, P. Joseph, A. Kumar, J. Postma in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (2021)

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    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...

    S. N. Tandon, J. B. Hutchings, S. K. Ghosh in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (2017)

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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...

    J. B. Hutchings in Astrophysics and Space Science (2014)

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    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.

    J.B. Hutchings, J. Stoesz, J.-P. Véran, F. Rigaut in Science with Adaptive Optics (2005)

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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...

    M.E. Kaiser, L.D. Bradley II, J.B. Hutchings in Astrophysics and Space Science (1999)

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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...

    R. G. Carlberg, H. K. C. Yee, E. Ellingson, S. Morris in The Early Universe with the VLT (1997)

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    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...

    J. B. Hutchings in Quasar Hosts (1997)

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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...

    J. B. Hutchings in Quasar Hosts (1997)

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    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...

    K. Werner, B. Wolff, M. W. Pakull, A. P. Cowley, P. C. Schmidtke in Supersoft X-Ray Sources (1996)

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    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...

    S. M. Haser, D. J. Lennon, R.-P. Kudritzki, J. Puls in Evolution of Massive Stars (1994)

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    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...

    Joachim E. Trümper, Giovanni G. Fazio, J. B. Hutchings in Reports on Astronomy (1994)

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    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...

    F. A. Córdova, K. O. Mason, W. C. Priedhorsky, B. Margon in Astrophysics and Space Science (1985)

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    The synthesis of close-binary light curves IV: An application to TX ursae majoris and MR Cygni

    A full description is given of the theory used in light curve synthesis, for binary stars showing various degrees of interaction. For strongly interacting pairs, an iterative mutual heating calculation is intr...

    Graham Hill, J. B. Hutchings in Astrophysics and Space Science (1973)