Investigating the In-Flight Performance of the UVIT Payload on ASTROSAT (1706.02523v2)

Abstract: We have studied the performance of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope payload on AstroSat and derived a calibration of the FUV and NUV instruments on board. We find that the sensitivity of both the FUV and NUV channels is as expected from ground calibrations, with the FUV effective area about 35% and the NUV effective area about the same as that of GALEX. The point spread function of the instrument is on the order of 1.2-1.6 arcsec. We have found that pixel-to-pixel variations in the sensitivity are less than 10% with spacecraft motion compensating for most of the flat-field variations. We derived a distortion correction but recommend that it be applied post-processing as part of an astrometric solution.