MSV-2035 Astronomy Document - Inside Design - FINAL - FINAL

3 Astronomy & Astrophysics 5 Mega Science Projects in Astronomy - Present and Future 70 5.1 Mega Projects where India is already a Partner 70 5.1.1 Thirty Meter Telescope 71 5.1.2 Square Kilometer Array 73 5.1.3 LIGO-India 74 5.2 Other International Mega Projects with Indian Contribution 75 5.2.1 Vera C Rubin Observatory - Legacy Survey of Space and Time 75 5.2.2 Cerenkov Telescope Array 76 5.2.3 Mauna Kea Spectroscopic Explorer 76 5.3 Mega Science Projects in Planning Stages in the Country 77 5.3.1 National Large Solar Telescope 77 5.3.2 National Large Optical-NIR Telescope 78 5.3.3 Network of Telescopes and Dedicated Survey Facilities 79 5.3.4 Future Radio Astronomy 80 5.3.5 Himalayan Sub-Millimeter Facility 80 5.3.6 Ground Based ɤ-ray Astronomy 81 5.4 Timeline of the Projects 82 5.5 Priority of Projects 84 5.6 Space-based Astronomy Missions 87 5.6.1 ExoWorlds 88 5.6.2 Indian Spectroscopic and Imaging Space Telescope 88 5.6.3 Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey 89 5.6.4 Daksha - an All Sky X-ray Payload 89 5.6.5 X-ray Polarisation 89 5.6.6 Radio Astronomy in Space-based Missions 89 5.6.7 Space-Based Solar Missions 90 5.7 Large Computing Facilities and Databases 91 5.7.1 Computational Centre for Space Weather Forecasting 92 5.7.2 For Radio Astronomy – SKA 92 5.7.3 Gravitational Wave Astronomy - Data Analysis and 93 Numerical Relativity 5.7.4 Requirements of Other Mega Projects 93 MEGA SCIENCE VISION-2035