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AstroSat UVIT Completes Decade of Breakthrough Science
AstroSat’s UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), activated on 30 November 2015, completed a decade of operations, with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics marking the milestone through a workshop in Bengaluru that showcased its legacy and future roadmap.
UVIT, India’s first dedicated UV space telescope aboard AstroSat (2015), remains one of the few global facilities capable of far-UV observations apart from the Hubble, made essential due to atmospheric absorption.
Designed at IIA’s Hosakote campus, UVIT uses two co-aligned telescopes (NUV–VIS and FUV) and was developed through a national collaboration involving IUCAA, TIFR, ISRO and the Canadian Space Agency.
With a spatial resolution better than 1.5 arcseconds, UVIT has observed 1,451 targets, enabled ~300 papers and major findings such as blue stragglers, Be-star companions, UV disks in dwarf galaxies and high-redshift (z=1.42) galaxy emissions.
The workshop also outlined INSIST, India’s next-generation UV spectroscopic–imaging mission, building on UVIT’s two-decade expertise.
UVIT, India’s first dedicated UV space telescope aboard AstroSat (2015), remains one of the few global facilities capable of far-UV observations apart from the Hubble, made essential due to atmospheric absorption.
Designed at IIA’s Hosakote campus, UVIT uses two co-aligned telescopes (NUV–VIS and FUV) and was developed through a national collaboration involving IUCAA, TIFR, ISRO and the Canadian Space Agency.
With a spatial resolution better than 1.5 arcseconds, UVIT has observed 1,451 targets, enabled ~300 papers and major findings such as blue stragglers, Be-star companions, UV disks in dwarf galaxies and high-redshift (z=1.42) galaxy emissions.
The workshop also outlined INSIST, India’s next-generation UV spectroscopic–imaging mission, building on UVIT’s two-decade expertise.