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Korpi-Lagg, Andreas; Gandorfer, Achim; Solanki, Sami K.; del Toro Iniesta, Jose Carlos; Katsukawa, Yukio; Bernasconi, Pietro; Berkefeld, Thomas; Feller, Alex; Riethmüller, Tino L.; Álvarez-Herrero, Alberto; Kubo, Masahito; Martínez Pillet, Valentín; Smitha, H. N.; Orozco Suárez, David; Grauf, Bianca; Carpenter, Michael; Bell, Alexander; Álvarez-Alonso, María-Teresa; Álvarez García, Daniel; Aparicio del Moral, Beatriz; Atiénzar, Julia; Ayoub, Daniel; Bailén, Francisco Javier; Bailón Martínez, Eduardo; Balaguer Jiménez, Maria; Barthol, Peter; Bayon Laguna, Montserrat; Bellot Rubio, Luis R.; Bergmann, Melani; Blanco Rodríguez, Julian; Bochmann, Jan; Borrero, Juan Manuel; Campos-Jara, Antonio; Castellanos Durán, Juan Sebastián; Cebollero, María; Conde Rodríguez, Aitor; Deutsch, Werner; Eaton, Harry; Fernández-Medina, Ana Belen; Fernandez-Rico, German; Ferreres, Agustin; García, Andrés; García Alarcia, Ramón María; García Parejo, Pilar; Garranzo-García, Daniel; Gasent Blesa, José Luis; Gerber, Karin; Germerott, Dietmar; Gilabert Palmer, David; Gizon, Laurent; Gómez Sánchez-Tirado, Miguel Angel; González-Bárcena, David; Gonzalo Melchor, Alejandro; Goodyear, Sam; Hara, Hirohisa; Harnes, Edvarda; Heerlein, Klaus; Heidecke, Frank; Heinrichs, Jan; Hernández Expósito, David; Hirzberger, Johann; Hoelken, Johannes; Hyun, Sangwon; Iglesias, Francisco A.; Ishikawa, Ryohtaroh T.; Jeon, Minwoo; Kawabata, Yusuke; Kolleck, Martin; Laguna, Hugo; Lomas, Julian; López Jiménez, Antonio C.; Manzano, Paula; Matsumoto, Takuma; Mayo Turrado, David; Meierdierks, Thimo; Meining, Stefan; Monecke, Markus; Morales-Fernández, José Miguel; Moreno Mantas, Antonio Jesús; Moreno Vacas, Alejandro; Müller, Marc Ferenc; Müller, Reinhard; Naito, Yoshihiro; Nakai, Eiji; Núñez Peral, Armonía; Oba, Takayoshi; Palo, Geoffrey; Pérez-Grande, Isabel; Piqueras Carreño, Javier; Preis, Tobias; Przybylski, Damien; Quintero Noda, Carlos; Ramanath, Sandeep; Ramos Más, Jose Luis; Raouafi, Nour; Rivas-Martínez, María-Jesús; Rodríguez Martínez, Pedro; Rodríguez Valido, Manuel; Ruiz Cobo, Basilio; Sánchez Rodríguez, Antonio et al.
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Solar Physics
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2025
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In July 2024, SUNRISE completed its third successful science flight. The SUNRISE III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013, to tackle the most recent science challenges concerning the solar atmosphere. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and their complex interaction from the deepest observable layers in the photosphere up to chromospheric heights. Previously poorly explored spectral regions and lines are exploited to paint a three-dimensional picture of the solar atmosphere with unprecedented completeness and level of detail. The full polarimetric information is captured by all three instruments to reveal the interaction between the magnetic fields and the hydrodynamic processes. Two slit-based spectropolarimeters, the SUNRISE UV Spectropolarimeter and Imager (SUSI) and the SUNRISE Chromospheric Infrared spectro-Polarimeter (SCIP), focus on the near-ultraviolet (309 – 417 nm) and the near-infrared (765 – 855 nm) regions respectively, and the imaging spectropolarimeter Tunable Magnetograph (TUMAG) simultaneously obtains maps of the full field-of-view of 46×46 Mm2 in the photosphere and the chromosphere in the visible (525 and 517 nm). The instruments are operated in an orchestrated mode, benefiting from a new Image Stabilization and Light Distribution unit (ISLID), with the Correlating Wavefront Sensor (CWS) providing the autofocus control and an image stability with a root-mean-square value smaller than 0.005". A new gondola was constructed to significantly improve the telescope pointing stability, required to achieve uninterrupted observations over many hours. SUNRISE III was launched successfully on 10 July 2024, from the Esrange Space Center of the Swedish Space Corporation near Kiruna (Sweden). It reached the landing site between the Mackenzie River and the Great Bear Lake in Canada after a flight duration of 6.5 days. In this paper, we give an overview of the SUNRISE III observatory and its instruments.