4 papers
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…
The Sunrise Ultraviolet Spectropolarimeter and Imager: Instrument description
A. Feller, A. Gandorfer, B. Grauf +46
The third science flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise carries three entirely new post-focus science instruments with spectropolarimetric capabilities, concurrentl…
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…