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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…
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…
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…
The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on Solar Orbiter
S. K. Solanki, J. C. del Toro Iniesta, J. Woch +121
This paper describes the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on the Solar Orbiter mission (SO/PHI), the first magnetograph and helioseismology instrument to observe the Sun from o…
The Wave-Front Correction System for the Sunrise Balloon-Borne Solar Observatory
T. Berkefeld, W. Schmidt, D. Soltau +21
This paper describes the wave-front correction system developed for the Sunrise balloon telescope, and provides information about its in-flight performance. For the correction of l…
The Sunrise Mission
Peter Barthol, Achim Gandorfer, Sami K. Solanki +42
The first science flight of the balloon-borne \Sunrise telescope took place in June 2009 from ESRANGE (near Kiruna/Sweden) to Somerset Island in northern Canada. We describe the sc…