The Sunrise Mission

• Main Authors: Barthol, P., Gandorfer, A., Solanki, S.K., Schüssler, M., Chares, B., Curdt, W., Deutsch, W., Feller, A., Germerott, D., Grauf, B., Heerlein, K., Hirzberger, J., Kolleck, M., Meller, R., Müller, R., Riethmüller, T.L., Tomasch, G., Knölker, M., Lites, B.W., Card, G., Elmore, D., Fox, J., Lecinski, A., Nelson, P., Summers, R., Watt, A., Martínez Pillet, V., Bonet, J.A., Schmidt, W., Berkefeld, T., Title, A.M., Domingo, V., Gasent Blesa, J.L., del Toro, Iniesta, J.C., López Jiménez, A., Álvarez-Herrero, A., Sabau-Graziati, L., Widani, C., Haberler, P., Härtel, K., Kampf, D., Levin, T., Pérez Grande, I., Sanz-Andrés, A., Schmidt, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media 2010
• Subjects: Instrumentation and data management; Integrated sun observations; Magnetic fields; photosphere; 530; Canada; Esrange; Kiruna; Somerset Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34657/4186; https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/5557

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 component...