SUNRISE: high-resolution UV/VIS observations of the Sun from the stratosphere

Bibcode
2004SPIE.5489..732G
DOI
10.1117/12.549119
Gandorfer, Achim M.; Solanki, Sami K.; Schüssler, Manfred; Curdt, Werner; Lites, Bruce W.; Martínez Pillet, Valentin; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Title, Alan M.
Bibliographical reference

Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5489, pp. 732-741 (2004).

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10
2004
Number of authors
8
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
SUNRISE is a balloon-borne solar telescope with an aperture of 1m, working in the UV/VIS optical domain. The main scientific goal of SUNRISE is to understand the structure and dynamics of the magnetic field in the atmosphere of the Sun. SUNRISE will provide diffraction-limited images of the photosphere and chromosphere with an unpredecented resolution down to 35km at wavelengths around 220nm. Focal-plane instruments are a spectrograph/polarimeter, a Fabry-Perot filter magnetograph, and a filter imager. The first stratospheric long-duration balloon flight of SUNRISE over Antarctica is planned in winter 2006/2007. SUNRISE is a joint project of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung (MPS), Katlenburg-Lindau, with the Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg, the High-Altitude Observatory (HAO), Boulder, the Lockheed-Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab. (LMSAL), Palo Alto, and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife. In this paper we will present an overview on the mission and give a description of the instrumentation, now, at the beginning of the hardware construction phase.
Type
Non-refereed

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