<p>This paper describes the wave-front correction and image stabilisation system (CWS) developed for the <span>Sunrise&#xa0;iii</span> balloon-borne telescope, and provides information about its performance as measured during the integration into the telescope and during the 2024 science flight. The fast image stabilisation is done by a correlation tracker (CT) and a fast tip-tilt mirror, low order aberrations such as defocus and coma are measured by a six-element Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) and corrected by an active telescope secondary mirror for automated focus and manual coma correction. The CWS is specified to deliver a stabilised image with a precision of 0.005 arcsec (rms). The autofocus adjustment is specified to maintain a focus stability of 0.01 waves in the focal plane of the CWS.</p>

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Sunrise iii: The Wavefront Correction System

  • Thomas Berkefeld,
  • Alexander Bell,
  • Reiner Volkmer,
  • Frank Heidecke,
  • Tobias Preis,
  • Thomas Sonner,
  • Eiji Nakai,
  • Andreas Korpi-Lagg,
  • Achim Gandorfer,
  • Sami K. Solanki,
  • Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta,
  • Yukio Katsukawa,
  • Pietro Bernasconi,
  • Alex Feller,
  • Tino L. Riethmüller,
  • Alberto Álvarez-Herrero,
  • Masahito Kubo,
  • Valentín Martínez Pillet,
  • H. N. Smitha,
  • David Orozco Suárez,
  • Bianca Grauf,
  • Michael Carpenter

摘要

This paper describes the wave-front correction and image stabilisation system (CWS) developed for the Sunrise iii balloon-borne telescope, and provides information about its performance as measured during the integration into the telescope and during the 2024 science flight. The fast image stabilisation is done by a correlation tracker (CT) and a fast tip-tilt mirror, low order aberrations such as defocus and coma are measured by a six-element Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) and corrected by an active telescope secondary mirror for automated focus and manual coma correction. The CWS is specified to deliver a stabilised image with a precision of 0.005 arcsec (rms). The autofocus adjustment is specified to maintain a focus stability of 0.01 waves in the focal plane of the CWS.