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TMT- India:Instrumentation

TMT- India:Instrumentation. A. N. Ramaprakash. Breaking News. India has joined TMT project as an observer http://www.tmt.org/news-center/india-joins-thirty-meter-telescope-project Looking for 10% level participation in case and in kind

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TMT- India:Instrumentation

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  1. TMT-India:Instrumentation A. N. Ramaprakash

  2. Breaking News • India has joined TMT project as an observer • http://www.tmt.org/news-center/india-joins-thirty-meter-telescope-project • Looking for 10% level participation in case and in kind • Interests in construction, operation as well as building instruments IIA,Bengaluru ARIES Nainital IUCAA, Pune A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  3. Focal Plane Array Controllers • Successful programme for developing CCD controllers • Version 5 is currently in use – SPARTAN FPGA based • Next generation FPA controller being designed – VIRTEX FPGA based • L3CCD, EMCCD, OTCCD, CMOS (ASTROSAT), PICNIC (NIPI), HAWAII • Handle large mosaics (16 input channels) • High speed (1Megapixel per second) • Better noise performance • On-board memory and image analysis • Programmable readout modes A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  4. HAWAII-2RG MUX test set up A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  5. HAWAII-2RG Controller Schematic • Please see poster 7742-93 USB/Fibre interface USB interface FPGA Card Linux PC with Custom s/w A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  6. Optical Fibres – Integral Field Unit A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  7. IFU on the telescope A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  8. Commissioning data from IFU IRAS 1256 in grism GR8 A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  9. Other Projects • Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Survey (IRSIS) satellite • IFU with over 2000 near-IR fibres • Multiple HAWAII detectors • Extremely compact and light weight A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  10. Adaptive Optics • Collaboration with Caltech • Robo-AO • Class 10000 clean room set up • Permanent experiment test bench • Novel wavefront sensing approaches – miniaturize WFS • Improved and more efficient wavefrontreconstructor algorithms A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  11. IGO backend instrumentation • Fibre Integral Field Unit for IFOSC – FIFUI • Near-Infrared PICNIC Imager – NIPI • Low order adaptive optics corrector • Fabry-Perot Spectrograph • Integrated Instrument Control System (TELICS) • Power House A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  12. Indian Industries • General Optics Asia Ltd. (GOAL) • 27 year old, 70000 sq. ft. built up area • End to end solution provider for custom optics • Design, Fabrication, Coating, Integration & Testing capabilities • Customers include Zygo, Indian space, aerospace and military establishments • Interested in supplying TMT primary mirror segments and other optical components A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  13. SOME OF GOAL’s OVERSEAS CUSTOMERS

  14. MOU WITH LARGE MULTINATIONALS • Raytheon Defence & Avionics • Northrop Corporation • EADS Defense Security • BAe Systems • SagemDéfenseSécurité • Optical Research Associates, California • ZeissOptronics (Proposed) • Israel Aircraft Industries (Proposed) • Selex (Proposed)

  15. Some astronomy projects A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  16. TMT Primary segments A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  17. Avasarala Technologies Ltd. Total Land Area: 44,000 Sq. Mtrs Total Built up Area 20,000 sq.mtr Height Max 24 mtrs Crane Capacity 50 Tonnes A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  18. Avasarala’s clients Nuclear * BRIT * IPR * RRCAT NPCIL NFC BHAVINI BARC HWB Aerospace and R & D Labs HAL ISRO CERN IIA ITER A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  19. HAGAR telescope at 5000m A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  20. Equipments for R&D labs European Organisation for Nuclear ResearchMulti nation Mega Project - Large Hadron Collider – LHC > 3 B Euro Project Ion Beam Polishing System Thermo Vacuum Chamber Application: Multipactor RF Testing of Satellite Packages under 10 -7 mbar UHV and at -100 deg C to +100 deg C Application : Polishing of large diameter Mirrors -1M to a Surface Finish of 10 Nanometers Precision Magnet Positioning System CERN, Geneva – 4,500 Nos A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  21. Software Capabilties • Tata Consultancy Services • Tata Group subsidiary • Over 160,000 IT consultants in 42 countries, above USD6.3billion revenue • Worked on Giant Metre Wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) • Persistent Systems Ltd. • 4600+ employees at 20+ international locations • Worked with Virtual Observatory-India • Working on a unique observatory control framework model • IUCAA 2m optical telescope and GMRT • Interests in developing observatory, telescope and instrument control software, data pipeline and archives, proposal management systems etc. A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

  22. Thank You A. N. Ramaprakash, IUCAA

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