Bibcode
Solanki, S. K.; Barthol, P.; Danilovic, S.; Feller, A.; Gandorfer, A.; Hirzberger, J.; Riethmüller, T. L.; Schüssler, M.; Bonet, J. A.; Martínez-Pillet, V.; del Toro Iniesta, J. C.; Domingo, V.; Palacios, J.; Knölker, M.; Bello González, N.; Berkefeld, T.; Franz, M.; Schmidt, W.; Title, A. M.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 723, Issue 2, pp. L127-L133 (2010).
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2010
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245
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206
Description
The SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1 m 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 revealed the
structure, dynamics, and evolution of solar convection, oscillations,
and magnetic fields at a resolution of around 100 km in the quiet Sun.
After a brief description of instruments and data, the first qualitative
results are presented. In contrast to earlier observations, we clearly
see granulation at 214 nm. Images in Ca II H display narrow, short-lived
dark intergranular lanes between the bright edges of granules. The very
small-scale, mixed-polarity internetwork fields are found to be highly
dynamic. A significant increase in detectable magnetic flux is found
after phase-diversity-related reconstruction of polarization maps,
indicating that the polarities are mixed right down to the spatial
resolution limit and probably beyond.
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