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The Sun at high resolution: first results from the Sunrise mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2011

S. K. Solanki ,
P. Barthol ,
S. Danilovic ,
A. Feller ,
A. Gandorfer ,
J. Hirzberger ,
A. Lagg ,
T. L. Riethmüller ,
M. Schüssler  and
T. Wiegelmann
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S. K. Solanki
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Gyeonggi, 446-701, Korea
P. Barthol
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
S. Danilovic
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
A. Feller
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
A. Gandorfer
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
J. Hirzberger
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
A. Lagg
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
T. L. Riethmüller
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
M. Schüssler
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
T. Wiegelmann
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Str. 2, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany; email: solanki@mps.mpg.de
J. A. Bonet
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/Via Láctea s/n, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
V. Martínez Pillet
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/Via Láctea s/n, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
E. Khomenko
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/Via Láctea s/n, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
J. C. del Toro Iniesta
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Apdo. de Correos 3004, E-18080, Granada, Spain
V. Domingo
Affiliation:
Grupo de Astronomía y Ciencias del Espacio (Univ. de Valencia), E-46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
J. Palacios
Affiliation:
Grupo de Astronomía y Ciencias del Espacio (Univ. de Valencia), E-46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
M. Knölker
Affiliation:
High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder CO 80307-3000, USA.†
N. Bello González
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
J. M. Borrero
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
T. Berkefeld
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
M. Franz
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
M. Roth
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
W. Schmidt
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
O. Steiner
Affiliation:
Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
A. M. Title
Affiliation:
Lockheed-Martin Solar and Astrophysical Lab., Palo Alto, USA
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Abstract

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The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m 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 reveal the structure, dynamics and evolution of solar convection, oscillations and magnetic fields at a resolution of around 100 km in the quiet Sun. Here we describe very briefly the mission and the first results obtained from the Sunrise data, which include a number of discoveries.

Keywords

Sunrisetelescopequiet suninstrumentation

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S273: The Physics of Sun and Star Spots , August 2010 , pp. 226 - 232
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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