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most citedThe Sunrise Mission

299 citations · 1k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Sunrise III: Instrument, mission, data, and first results

Sami K. Solanki, H. N. Smitha, Andreas Lagg +66

Sunrise III is a stratospheric balloon-borne solar observatory with a 1-m diameter telescope and three post-focus instruments, along with an image stabilisation system, all within…

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.SR2023★ 5 cited

Coronal voids and their magnetic nature

J. D. Nölke, S. K. Solanki, J. Hirzberger +68

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) observations of the quiet solar atmosphere reveal extended regions of weak emission compared to the ambient quiescent corona. The magnetic nature of these…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 10 cited

Stereoscopic disambiguation of vector magnetograms: first applications to SO/PHI-HRT data

G. Valori, D. Calchetti, A. Moreno Vacas +34

Spectropolarimetric reconstructions of the photospheric vector magnetic field are intrinsically limited by the 180-ambiguity in the orientation of the transverse component.…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 16 cited

Wavefront error of PHI/HRT on Solar Orbiter at various heliocentric distances

F. Kahil, A. Gandorfer, J. Hirzberger +31

We use wavefront sensing to characterise the image quality of the the High Resolution Telescope (HRT) of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI) data products during the…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 11 cited

Direct assessment of SDO/HMI helioseismology of active regions on the Sun's far side using SO/PHI magnetograms

D. Yang, L. Gizon, H. Barucq +47

Earth-side observations of solar p modes can be used to image and monitor magnetic activity on the Sun's far side. Here we use magnetograms of the far side obtained by the Polarime…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Spectropolarimetric investigation of magnetohydrodynamic wave modes in the photosphere: First results from PHI on board Solar Orbiter

D. Calchetti, M. Stangalini, S. Jafarzadeh +31

In November 2021, Solar Orbiter started its nominal mission phase. The remote-sensing instruments on board the spacecraft acquired scientific data during three observing windows su…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 3 cited

The ratio of horizontal to vertical displacement in solar oscillations estimated from combined SO/PHI and SDO/HMI observations

J. Schou, J. Hirzberger, D. Orozco Suárez +44

In order to make accurate inferences about the solar interior using helioseismology, it is essential to understand all the relevant physical effects on the observations. One effect…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 47 cited

The magnetic drivers of campfires seen by the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on Solar Orbiter

F. Kahil, J. Hirzberger, S. K. Solanki +56

The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on board the Solar Orbiter (SO) spacecraft observed small extreme ultraviolet (EUV) bursts, termed campfires, that have been proposed to be bri…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 236 cited

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…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 145 cited

The second flight of the SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory: overview of instrument updates, the flight, the data and first results

S. K. Solanki, T. L. Riethmüller, P. Barthol +32

The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory, consisting of a 1~m aperture telescope that provided a stabilized image to a UV filter imager and an imaging vector polarimeter, carrie…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 107 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 299 cited

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…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 126 cited

The Filter Imager SuFI and the Image Stabilization and Light Distribution System ISLiD of the Sunrise Balloon-Borne Observatory: Instrument Description

A. Gandorfer, B. Grauf, P. Barthol +29

We describe the design of the Sunrise Filter Imager (SuFI) and the Image Stabilization and Light Distribution (ISLiD) unit onboard the Sunrise balloon borne solar observatory. This…