The Sunrise Mission
Abstract
The first science flight of the balloon-borne \Sunrise telescope took place in June 2009 from ESRANGE (near Kiruna/Sweden) to Somerset Island in northern Canada. We describe the scientific aims and mission concept of the project and give an overview and a description of the various hardware components: the 1-m main telescope with its postfocus science instruments (the UV filter imager SuFI and the imaging vector magnetograph IMaX) and support instruments (image stabilizing and light distribution system ISLiD and correlating wavefront sensor CWS), the optomechanical support structure and the instrument mounting concept, the gondola structure and the power, pointing, and telemetry systems, and the general electronics architecture. We also explain the optimization of the structural and thermal design of the complete payload. The preparations for the science flight are described, including AIV and ground calibration of the instruments. The course of events during the science flight is outlined, up to the recovery activities. Finally, the in-flight performance of the instrumentation is briefly summarized.
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@article{arxiv.1009.2689,
title = {The Sunrise Mission},
author = {Peter Barthol and Achim Gandorfer and Sami K. Solanki and Manfred Schüssler and Bernd Chares and Werner Curdt and Werner Deutsch and Alex Feller and Dietmar Germerott and Bianca Grauf and Klaus Heerlein and Johann Hirzberger and Martin Kolleck and Reinhard Meller and Reinhard Müller and Tino L. Riethmüller and Georg Tomasch and Michael Knölker and Bruce W. Lites and Greg Card and David Elmore and Jack Fox and Alice Lecinski and Peter Nelson and Richard Summers and Andrew Watt and Valentin Martínez Pillet and Jose Antonio Bonet and Wolfgang Schmidt and Thomas Berkefeld and Alan M. Title and Vicente Domingo and Jose Luis Gasent Blesa and Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta and Antonio López Jiménez and Alberto Álvarez-Herrero and Lola Sabau-Graziati and Christoph Widani and Peter Haberler and Klaus Härtel and Dirk Kampf and Thorsten Levin and Isabel Pérez Grande and Angel Sanz-Andrés and Elke Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2689},
year = {2015}
}
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35 pages, 17 figures