SUNRISE
(balloon-borne 1 m solar telescope)
SUNRISE is a balloon-borne 1-meter solar telescope
(designed to be very light weight).
It has made three flights, termed SUNRISE I (June 2009),
SUNRISE II (June 2013) and SUNRISE III (July 2022),
with a fourth flight in development for June 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:
- SUSI (Sunrise Ultraviolet Spectropolarimeter and Imager).
- TuMAG (Tunable Magnetograph) spectropolarimeter.
- SCIP (Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared Spectropolarimeter).
Some instruments on the earlier flights:
- CWS (Correlating Wavefront Sensor) - CCD-based wavefront sensor.
- SuFI (Sunrise Filter Imager) - ultraviolet filtered imager.
- IMaX (Imaging Magnetograph Experiment) - visible-light instrument looking to measure Zeeman effect on an iron spectral line.
- SUPOS - near-infrared spectropolarimeter.
(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
Referenced by page:
solar physics
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