IUCAA Brochure 2024

Astronomical Instrumentation The instrumentation lab at IUCAA has built the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) that is part of the ADITYA-L1 solar mission. It has already given great results post the placement of the telescope in its planned location in space. The software for pipeline data reduction was also developed in IUCAA laboratories. Another important instrument developed at IUCAA's instrumentation lab is Wide-Area Linear Optical Polarimeter (WALOP). Two WALOPs (South and North) have been designed and are being built at IUCAA as part of an international collaboration between Caltech, University of Crete, Greece and South African Astronomical Observatory. The data from this instrument will help create a 3D tomographicmap of the galacticmagnetic fields and dust cloud structure. This is mainly funded from external sources through multi-institutional collaboration. IUCAA is also developing labs and a skilled instrumentation team to carry out the commissioning and post commissioning operations of LIGO- INDIA.