Abstract
On June 8th 2009 the SUNRISE mission was successfully launched. This mission consisted of a 1m aperture solar telescope on board of a stratospheric balloon within the Long Duration Balloon NASA program. The flight followed the foreseen circumpolar trajectory over the Artic and the duration was 5 days and 17 hours. One of the two postfocal instruments onboard was IMaX, the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment. This instrument is a solar magnetograph which is a diffraction limited imager capable to resolve 100 km on the solar surface, and simultaneously a high sensitivity polarimeter ( ) and a high resolution spectrograph (bandwidth etalon as tunable spectral filter are remarkable. Currently the data obtained is being analyzed and the preliminary results show unprecedented information about the solar dynamics.
Highlights
The goal of SUNRISE mission is the study of the solar magnetic fields analysing the features with temporal dependency of the magneto-convective patterns, as well as the interaction at small scale between the convective fluxes and the magnetic field
On June 8th 2009 the SUNRISE mission was successfully launched. This mission consisted of a 1m aperture solar telescope on board of a stratospheric balloon within the Long Duration Balloon NASA program
The SUNRISE mission consists of a stratospheric balloon with a 1m aperture solar telescope onboard
Summary
The goal of SUNRISE mission is the study of the solar magnetic fields analysing the features with temporal dependency of the magneto-convective patterns, as well as the interaction at small scale between the convective fluxes and the magnetic field. The Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment, IMaX, one of the two SUNRISE post-focal instruments, is a solar magnetograph It is a diffraction limited imager in order to resolve 100km on the solar surface, but is a high sensitivity polarimeter (
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