Bibcode
Gandorfer, Achim M.; Solanki, Sami K.; Schüssler, Manfred; Curdt, Werner; Lites, Bruce W.; Martínez Pillet, Valentin; Schmidt, Wolfgang; Title, Alan M.
Referencia bibliográfica
Ground-based Telescopes. Edited by Oschmann, Jacobus M., Jr. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5489, pp. 732-741 (2004).
Fecha de publicación:
10
2004
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
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.