The Sunrise Mission

• Main Authors: Barthol, Peter, Gandorfer, Achim, Solanki, Sami K., Schüssler, Manfred, Chares, Bernd, Curdt, Werner, Deutsch, Werner, Feller, Alex, Germerott, Dietmar, Grauf, Bianca, Heerlein, Klaus, Hirzberger, Johann, Kolleck, Martin, Meller, Reinhard, Müller, Reinhard, Riethmüller, Tino L., Tomasch, Georg, Knölker, Michael, Lites, Bruce W., Card, Greg, Elmore, David, Fox, Jack, Lecinski, Alice, Nelson, Peter, Summers, Richard, Watt, Andrew, Pillet, Valentin Martínez, Bonet, Jose Antonio, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Berkefeld, Thomas, Title, Alan M., Domingo, Vicente, Blesa, Jose Luis Gasent, Iniesta, Jose Carlos del Toro, Jiménez, Antonio López, Álvarez-Herrero, Alberto, Sabau-Graziati, Lola, Widani, Christoph, Haberler, Peter, Härtel, Klaus, Kampf, Dirk, Levin, Thorsten, Grande, Isabel Pérez, Sanz-Andrés, Angel, Schmidt, Elke
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2010
• Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics astro-ph.IM; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics astro-ph.SR; FOS Physical sciences; Canada; Esrange; Kiruna; Somerset Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1009.2689; https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2689

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 componen...