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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…
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…
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…
Performance analysis of the SO/PHI software framework for on-board data reduction
K. Albert, J. Hirzberger, D. Busse +13
The Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is the first deep-space solar spectropolarimeter, on-board the Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. It faces: stringent requirements on…