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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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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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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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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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The evolution of massive stars; an observational viewpoint
The review is a discussion of observationally deduced values of the masses, mass-loss rates, temperatures, luminosities and element abundances for the most massive stars. The comparison of these quantities wit...
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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...