Dibrugarh University's Dr. Bitap Raj Kalita Represents Assam at National Meet on Aditya L1's Performance Appraisal and Data Release at ISRO

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DIBRUGARH: Dr Bitap Raj Kalita, Department of Physics and Centre for Atmospheric Physics, Dibrugarh University, was invited to and participated in the national meet on the performance appraisal and data release of Aditya L1 January 6, 2025, held at the ISRO Headquarters in Bengaluru.

He is the only scientist from Assam and the North-East region to be invited to the national meeting.  Aditya L1 is the dedicated solar observatory of India positioned at the first Lagrange point (L1) in the Sun-Earth system.

January 6, 2025, marks the first anniversary of the insertion of Aditya L1 to the halo orbit at L1 point. ISRO Chairperson Dr Somanath S released the scientific data collected by Aditya L1 to the community in the meeting attended by around 40 scientists from 15 universities and research institutes.

In the first half of the meeting, the project director of Aditya L1 and the principal investigators (PI) of the seven experiments/payloads carried by Aditya L1 presented the status of the mission, instruments’ capabilities and samples of new interesting scientific results.

 In the second half of the meeting, the prospective users were introduced to and familiarized with the data download portal. The current constraints of the dataset were also notified.

At the end, an interactive session was organized to obtain the user’s point of view and various proposals to maximise the scientific utilization of Aditya L1 data for space weather and solar physics were put forward by the scientist community.

The importance of Aditya L1 data, for space weather research and building indigenous space weather prediction capabilities, was discussed.

It’s to be noted here that space weather research in Dibrugarh University was started by Prof Pradip Kumar Bhuyan about three decades ago, and from then on, the University is in active collaboration with ISRO under various schemes like Space Science Promotion Scheme (SSPS), Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES), and Sponsored Research (RESPOND) scheme.

The Space Science research group of Dibrugarh University will be actively participating in the evaluation and application of Aditya L1 data from now on.

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