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most citedSunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments

32 citations · 101 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026★ 10 cited

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared Spectro-Polarimeter SCIP: an instrument for SUNRISE III

Y. Katsukawa, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, S. K. Solanki +54

The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory is equipped with a one-meter aperture optical telescope, offering a unique platform for uninterrupted seeing-free observations across ul…

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★ 4 cited

Development of a near-infrared wide-field integral field unit by ultra-precision diamond cutting

Kosuke Kushibiki, Shinobu Ozaki, Masahiro Takeda +17

Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is an observational method to obtain spatially resolved spectra over a specific field of view (FoV) in a single exposure. In recent years, near-in…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

JASMINE: Near-Infrared Astrometry and Time Series Photometry Science

Daisuke Kawata, Hajime Kawahara, Naoteru Gouda +86

Japan Astrometry Satellite Mission for INfrared Exploration (JASMINE) is a planned M-class science space mission by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the Japan Aero…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Development of Fast and Precise Scan Mirror Mechanism for an Airborne Solar Telescope

Takayoshi Oba, Toshifumi Shimizu, Yukio Katsukawa +14

We developed a scan mirror mechanism (SMM) that enable a slit-based spectrometer or spectropolarimeter to precisely and quickly map an astronomical object. The SMM, designed to be…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +240

KAGRA is a newly build gravitational-wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper in the series of KAGRA-featured a…

physics.ins-det2019★ 16 cited

An arm length stabilization system for KAGRA and future gravitational-wave detectors

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +198

Modern ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors require a complex interferometer configuration with multiple coupled optical cavities. Since achieving the resonances of the a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

Application of the independent component analysis to the iKAGRA data

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +244

We apply the independent component analysis (ICA) to the real data from a gravitational wave detector for the first time. Specifically we use the iKAGRA data taken in April 2016, a…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 2 cited

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: optical design of IRIS imager with "Co-axis double TMA"

Toshihiro Tsuzuki, Ryuji Suzuki, Hiroki Harakawa +10

IRIS (InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph) is one of the first-generation instruments for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). IRIS is composed of a combination of near-infrared (0.84--2.4…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 10 cited

The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: the ADC optical design

Andrew C. Phillips, Ryuji Suzuki, James E. Larkin +4

We present the current optical design for the IRIS Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC). The ADC is designed for residual dispersions less than ~1 mas across a given passband at…