Polarimetric calibration of a spectropolarimeter instrument with high precision: Sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter (SCIP) for the sunrise iii balloon …

Y Kawabata, Y Katsukawa, M Kubo, T Anan… - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The Sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter (SCIP) installed in the international
balloon experiment sunrise iii will perform spectropolarimetric observations in the near …

Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared SpectroPolarimeter (SCIP) for sunrise III: system design and capability

Y Katsukawa, JC del Toro Iniesta… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory carries a 1 m aperture optical telescope and
provides us a unique platform to conduct continuous seeing-free observations at UV-visible …

Multiline Stokes Synthesis of Ellerman Bombs: Obtaining Seamless Information from Photosphere to Chromosphere

Y Kawabata, CQ Noda, Y Katsukawa… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere is a critical process in determining the
chromospheric dynamics, such as Ellerman bombs and UV bursts. Because the heating of …

Sunrise chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) for SUNRISE III: thermal-vacuum test of the SCIP optical unit

Y Katsukawa, H Hara, M Kubo… - Ground-based and …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimter (SCIP) is an instrument for the third
flight of the SUNRISE balloon-borne solar observatory planned for 2022. To verify the high …

Development of fast and precise scan mirror mechanism for an airborne solar telescope

T Oba, T Shimizu, Y Katsukawa, M Kubo, Y Kawabata… - Solar Physics, 2022 - Springer
We developed a scan mirror mechanism (SMM) that enable a slit-based spectrometer or
spectropolarimeter to precisely and quickly map an astronomical object. The SMM, designed …

High-speed data processing onboard sunrise chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter for the SUNRISE III balloon telescope

M Kubo, Y Katsukawa… - Journal of …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) has been developed for the
third flight of the Sunrise balloon-borne stratospheric solar observatory. The aim of the SCIP …

Optical alignment and performance evaluation of the Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) for SUNRISE III

Y Kawabata, Y Katsukawa, T Tsuzuki… - Ground-based and …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SUNRISE III is an international balloon-borne solar observatory with a 1m diameter
telescope and is scheduled to fly in 2022. The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared …

SUNRISE chromospheric infrared spectropolarimeter (SCIP) for SUNRISE III: scan mirror mechanism

T Oba, T Shimizu, Y Katsukawa, M Kubo… - Ground-based and …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The SUNRISE Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) is a balloon-borne long-
slit spectrograph for SUNRISE III to precisely measure magnetic fields in the solar …

Development of an optical system for near-infrared spectropolarimeter onboard Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory

T Tsuzuki, Y Katsukawa, F Uraguchi… - … Conference on Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We have developed a near-infrared spectropolarimeter onboard the Sunrise balloon-borne
solar observatory launched in 2022. In this paper, we present the development of the optical …