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| Name: Durgesh Tripathi Affiliation: IUCAA, Pune Conference ID: ASI2015_710 Title : The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) for Aditya-L1 mission Authors and Co-Authors : Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash and the SUIT team Abstract Type : Invited Abstract Category : Abstract : The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope is an imaging telescope on board ISRO's proposed Aditya-L1 mission, that will be placed in an halo orbit around the first Lagrangian point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system. SUIT has been designed to record full disk observations of the Sun between 200-400 nm wavelength range using eight narrow band and three broadband filters. The main science goals SUIT will address will be related to the dynamic coupling of the solar atmosphere, various eruptive events and sun climate relations. SUIT will provide continuous observations with sufficiently high spatial and temporal resolution that can address issues like motion of the shock-fronts, heating of chromosphere by current sheets, MHD waves, magnetic reconnection etc. Hence, it has the potential to provide the best opportunity to study the dynamics and coupling of the chromosphere and the transition region. Additionally, SUIT will for the first time provide spatially resolved solar spectral irradiances which is of utmost importance for the understanding of Sun-climate relationship. The talk will high light some of the important questions SUIT is designed to address. |