Sunrise: INSTRUMENT, MISSION, DATA, AND FIRST RESULTS

By S. Solanki, P. Barthol, S. Danilovic, A. Feller, A. Gandorfer, J. Hirzberger, T. Riethmüller, M. Schüssler, José A. Bonet, V. Pillet and 9 more. 2010

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The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1 m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system, and further infrastructure. The first science flight of Sunrise yielded high-quality data that revealed the structure, dynamics, and evolution of solar convection, oscillations, and magnetic fields at a resolution of around 100 km in the quiet Sun. After a brief description of instruments and data, the first qualitative results are presented. In contrast to earlier observations, we clearly see granulation at 214 nm. Images in Ca ii H display narrow, short-lived dark intergranular lanes between the bright edges of granules. The very small-scale, mixed-polarity internetwork fields are found to be highly dynamic. A significant increase in detectable magnetic flux is found after phase-diversity-related reconstruction of polarization maps, indicating that the polarities are mixed right down to the spatial resolution limit and probably beyond.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. S. Solanki
2. M. Schüssler
3. Laurent Gizon
4. A. Title
5. Tongjiang Wang
6. V. Domingo
7. W. Curdt
8. G. Verth

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. G. Verth
2. R. Morton
3. S. Solanki
4. S. Grant
5. Ioannis Giagkiozis
6. J. C. D. T. Iniesta
7. Laurent Gizon
8. D. Jess

Citations in the corpus

• The Sunrise Mission (2010, methodology): “Details on SuFI and IMaX observing modes, number of acquired images and and duration of time series are given in Solanki et al., 2010.”
• Magnetic Flux Transport at the Solar Surface (2014, background): “…can be inferred from high resolution spectropolarimetric observations, for example, theHinodespacecraft with about 230 km resolution (Tsuneta et al. 2008) and theSunrise balloon-borne solar observatory with about 100 km resolutin (Solanki et al. 2010), and is consequently much richer in detail.”
• Multiwavelength Studies of MHD Waves in the Solar Chromosphere (2015, background): “…Magnetograph eXperiment (IMaX; Martínez Pillet et al. 2011) two-dimensional spectropolarimeter onboard the Sunrise balloon-based observatory (Solanki et al. 2010; Barthol et al. 2011), Bello González et al. (2010b) uncovered yet more evidence to support the hypothesis that the lower…”
• Sunrise/IMaX OBSERVATIONS OF CONVECTIVELY DRIVEN VORTEX FLOWS IN THE SUN (2008, methodology): “The data were gathered with IMaX near the solar disk center on June 9, 2009 (UT 01:31-02:02; although the exact location is not known) during the first science flight of Sunrise (Barthol et al. 2010; Solanki et al. 2010).”
• The Solar Orbiter mission (2020, background): “An extension of the model also naturally reproduces the strong decrease at the end of solar cycle 23 (Vieira & Solanki 2010).”