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The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope On-Board Aditya-L1


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1 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
2 Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2nd Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560 034, India
3 Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077, Gottingen, Germany
4 CESSI, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata 741 246, India
 

The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument on-board Aditya-L1 mission of ISRO that will measure and monitor the solar radiation emitted in the near ultraviolet wavelength range (200-400 nm). SUIT will simultaneously map the photosphere and chromosphere of the Sun using 11 filters sensitive to different wavelengths and covering different heights in the solar atmosphere and help us understand the processes involved in the transfer from mass and energy from one layer to the other. SUIT will also allow us to measure and monitor spatially resolved solar spectral irradiance that governs the chemistry of oxygen and ozone in the stratosphere of the Earth's atmosphere. This is central to our understanding of Sun-climate relationship.

Keywords

Oxygen and Ozone Chemistry, Solar Radiation, Sun–Climate Relationship, Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.
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Authors

Durgesh Tripathi
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
A. N. Ramaprakash
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
Aafaque Khan
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
Avyarthana Ghosh
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
Subhamoy Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2nd Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560 034, India
Dipankar Banerjee
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, 2nd Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560 034, India
Pravin Chordia
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
Achim Gandorfer
Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077, Gottingen, Germany
Natalie Krivova
Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077, Gottingen, Germany
Dibyendu Nandy
CESSI, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata 741 246, India
Chaitanya Rajarshi
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Post Bag-4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
Sami K. Solanki
Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077, Gottingen, Germany

Abstract


The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument on-board Aditya-L1 mission of ISRO that will measure and monitor the solar radiation emitted in the near ultraviolet wavelength range (200-400 nm). SUIT will simultaneously map the photosphere and chromosphere of the Sun using 11 filters sensitive to different wavelengths and covering different heights in the solar atmosphere and help us understand the processes involved in the transfer from mass and energy from one layer to the other. SUIT will also allow us to measure and monitor spatially resolved solar spectral irradiance that governs the chemistry of oxygen and ozone in the stratosphere of the Earth's atmosphere. This is central to our understanding of Sun-climate relationship.

Keywords


Oxygen and Ozone Chemistry, Solar Radiation, Sun–Climate Relationship, Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi04%2F616-619