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SUNRISE

(balloon-borne 1-meter solar telescope)

SUNRISE is a balloon-borne 1-meter solar telescope (designed to be very light weight). It has made four flights, termed SUNRISE I (June 2009), SUNRISE II (June 2013) and SUNRISE III (an aborted July 2022 flight, then a successful flight July 2024). Collaborators include NASA, the MPIA, the NAOJ, and a Spanish consortium. Observations have been largely spectropolarimetry, and have included near infrared, visible light, and ultraviolet. SUNRISE III instruments:

Some instruments on the earlier flights:


(telescope,airborne,Sun)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_(telescope)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...723L.127S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011SoPh..268....1B/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03487
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017ApJS..229....2S/abstract
https://www.mps.mpg.de/6967853/sunrise-iii-picture-gallery-new
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-sunrise-iii-safe-site.html
https://sscspace.com/sunrise-iii-balloon-launched/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06483
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025SoPh..300...65F/abstract

Referenced by page:
solar physics

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