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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 8: Sun II

EP 8.1: Invited Talk

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 11:10–11:40, Zahnklinik

SUNRISE: High resolution UV/VIS observations of the Sun from the stratosphere — •Achim Gandorfer¹, Peter Barthol¹, Sami Solanki¹, Manfred Schüssler¹, Michael Knoelker², Valentin Martinez Pillet³, Wolfgang Schmidt⁴, and Alan Title⁵ — ¹Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Strasse 2, D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany — ²High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, 3080 Center Green, Boulder, CO 80301, USA — ³Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, C/Via Láctea, s/n 38205, La Laguna, E-38200 Tenerife, Spain — ⁴Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Schöneckstr. 6, 79104 Freiburg, Germany — ⁵Lockheed-Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA)

SUNRISE is an international project for the development, construction and operation of a balloon-borne solar telescope with an aperture of 1 m, working in the UV/VIS spectral domain. The main scientific goal of SUNRISE is to understand the structure and dynamics of the magnetic field in the atmosphere of the Sun. SUNRISE will provide near diffraction-limited images of the photosphere and chromosphere with an unprecedented resolution down to 35 km on the solar surface. The first stratospheric long-duration balloon flight of SUNRISE is planned in summer 2009 from the Swedish ESRANGE station. This paper will give an overview about the mission and a description of its scientific and technological aspects.