The Inter-College Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), primarily based in Pune, has efficiently developed a groundbreaking area telescope known as the Photo voltaic Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT).
On June 6, IUCAA handed over the telescope to the Indian House Analysis Organisation (ISRO), the place it is going to be built-in into the ADITYA-L1 mission as a vital instrument.
As soon as launched with the satellite tv for pc, it can journey roughly 1.5 million kilometers in direction of the Solar, particularly to the L1 level, and supply common updates and pictures of the Solar’s floor phenomena and area climate.
Main the venture at IUCAA are Prof. AN Ramprakash and Prof. Durgesh Tripathi, who’ve collaborated intently with ISRO to create the SUIT. The observations captured by this telescope will place India among the many main nations within the discipline of ultraviolet Solar commentary.
Ramprakash defined, “SUIT is without doubt one of the most important payloads on Aditya-L1. It is going to present full disk pictures of the Solar within the 2000 – 4000 A wavelength vary. Full disk pictures in your complete wavelength vary have by no means been obtained. Amongst many, there are a couple of elementary questions that SUIT will deal with, for instance, the existence of a better temperature environment above the cooler floor, the origin and variation of near-ultraviolet radiation from the Solar, and excessive power explosions corresponding to photo voltaic flares noticed within the photo voltaic environment, and so on.”
