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astro-ph.IM2026

PLATO input catalogs for technical calibration and fine guidance

René Heller, Chen Jiang, Paz Bluhm +18

A few weeks after launch, the PLATO spacecraft is expected to start its payload commissioning, which will be completed within the first three months of the mission. This phase incl…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 7 cited

Sunrise III: The Wavefront Correction System

Thomas Berkefeld, Alexander Bell, Reiner Volkmer +19

This paper describes the wave-front correction and image stabilisation system (CWS) developed for the Sunrise III balloon-borne telescope, and provides information about its perfor…

astro-ph.IM2025

TuMag: the tunable magnetograph for the Sunrise III mission

J. C. del Toro Iniesta, D. Orozco Suárez, A. Álvarez-Herrero +61

One of the instruments aboard the Sunrise III mission, the Tunable Magnetograph (TuMag), is a tunable imaging spectropolarimeter in visible wavelengths. It is designed to probe the…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 32 cited

Sunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments

Andreas Korpi-Lagg, Achim Gandorfer, Sami K. Solanki +117

In July 2024, Sunrise completed its third successful science flight. The Sunrise III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 a…

astro-ph.IM2024

A false positive transit candidate for EPIC 211101996 from K2 and TESS data identified as background eclipsing binary Gaia DR3 66767847894609792

René Heller, Milena Hüschen, Jan-Vincent Harre +1

Transiting planets around young stars are hard to find due to the enhanced stellar activity. Only a few transiting planets have been detected around stars younger than 100 Myr. We…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

The PLATO Mission

Heike Rauer, Conny Aerts, Juan Cabrera +842

PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic monitoring of a large numb…