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Research Facilities
The Institute has developed expertise in designing and fabricating satellite and balloon borne instruments in infrared and X-ray & Gamma ray astronomy. This includes electronics laboratories, clean rooms, thermovac chamber, calibration facilities and a large mechanical workshop. The Institute scientists, routinely fly a 100 cm diameter infrared telescope, a large area (2500 sq cm) hard X-ray proportional counter telescope and a large area (1200 sq cm) phoswich detector telescope from the balloon facility, Hyderabad. The department scientists are also involved in developing a new generation of space based instrumentation for the coming millennium including high time resolution spectroscopy of Sun, high pressure gas filled proportional counters, soft X-ray mirrors etc. The Department has an extensive computing and image processing facility to support the astronomy programmes. The Institute runs a large Balloon Facility which is the only one of its kind at equatorial latitudes. The Balloon facility at Hyderabad is capable of launching balloons carrying payloads of up to 1 ton to an altitude of 30 to 42 kms. The instruments can be controlled and tracked through an extensive telemetry and telecommand facility. Apart from this, other Departments in the Institute run the Radio and High Energy Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray observatories with which extensive collaborations are possible.
The Institute has a wide range of expertise and research activities
in all major fields in physics, Chemistry and Biology. This allows
access to experts in a lot of fields making it possible to develop
multi disciplinary activities.
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