Journal
SUNRISE BALLOON-BORNE STRATOSPHERIC SOLAR OBSERVATORY
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 103-123Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-010-9676-3
Keywords
Adaptive optics; Balloon; Image stabilization; Instrumentation; Shack-Hartmann; Tip-tilt correction; Wavefront sensing
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This paper describes the wave-front correction system developed for the Sunrise balloon telescope, and it provides information about its in-flight performance. For the correction of low-order aberrations, a Correlating Wave-Front Sensor (CWS) was used. It consisted of a six-element Shack-Hartmann wave-front sensor (WFS), a fast tip-tilt mirror for the compensation of image motion, and an active telescope secondary mirror for focus correction. The CWS delivered a stabilized image with a precision of 0.04 arcsec (rms), whenever the coarse pointing was better than +/- 45 arcsec peak-to-peak. The automatic focus adjustment maintained a focus stability of 0.01 waves in the focal plane of the CWS. During the 5.5 day flight, good image quality and stability were achieved during 33 hours, containing 45 sequences, which lasted between 10 and 45 min.
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