1. The Sunrise Mission
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Lola Sabau-Graziati, Greg Card, Christoph Widani, A. Lecinski, Antonio López Jiménez, Alan M. Title, David Elmore, Alex Feller, Dirk Kampf, Manfred Schüssler, W. Deutsch, Thomas Berkefeld, Jack Fox, Peter G. Nelson, Werner Curdt, Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta, Isabel Pérez Grande, Valentin Martinez Pillet, Thorsten Levin, Peter Barthol, Achim Gandorfer, R. Meller, Peter Haberler, M. Kolleck, Jose Luis Gasent Blesa, Elke Schmidt, Wolfgang Schmidt, Angel Sanz-Andrés, G. Tomasch, Richard Summers, Klaus Härtel, Sami K. Solanki, Andrew Watt, J. A. Bonet, D. Germerott, Alberto Álvarez-Herrero, Johann Hirzberger, Tino L. Riethmüller, V. Domingo, R. Muller, B. Chares, K. Heerlein, Michael Knölker, B. Grauf, and Bruce W. Lites
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Engineering ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,FOS: Physical sciences ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Course (navigation) ,Aeronáutica ,Telescope ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Sunrise ,Instrumentation (computer programming) ,Aerospace engineering ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Scientific instrument ,business.industry ,Payload ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Wavefront sensor ,Vector magnetograph ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,business - 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., Comment: 35 pages, 17 figures
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- 2010