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Azaymi L. Siu-Tapia

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arXiv2026

Sunrise III/SUSI reveals extended and spectrally structured Ca II K emission above the solar limb

The Sunrise III/SUSI instrument performed a sit-and-stare observation of the off-limb emission in the Ca II K line core, with a combination of excellent temporal and spectral resolution. The emission reaches up to 6 Mm above the solar limb, indicating the existence of off-limb structures akin to spicules. In this letter, we describe the spatio-spectral properties of the observed emission, focusing on the spectral line shape resolved in detail by Sunrise III/SUSI, and compare the observation with simple modeling that relies on a numerical simulation of the solar chromosphere. We find that the simulation contains enough cool and dense material at Mm heights to produce off-limb emission, but that the spectral width of these features is slightly lower than observed, necessitating more detailed modeling.

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arXiv2026

Measuring the Expansion of Solar Magnetic Fields with Multiline Inversions from Sunrise III

Magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere are expected to expand with height, forming magnetic canopies that couple the photosphere and chromosphere. Except for sunspots, direct measurements of this expansion remain scarce because they require simultaneous magnetic diagnostics over a broad range of atmospheric heights. We analyze four consecutive high-resolution spectropolarimetric raster scans of an emerging flux region observed with the Sunrise III/SCIP instrument. Simultaneous inversions of five photospheric Fe I lines and two chromospheric Ca II lines provide a quasi-continuous reconstruction of the magnetic field from the deep photosphere to the lower chromosphere. We apply a constant-flux method that follows the same magnetic flux through different atmospheric layers to quantify magnetic expansion. All three pores analyzed exhibit an overall increase in magnetic area with height, approximately doubling their cross section between the lower photosphere and the highest atmospheric layers sampled by the inversions. The expansion remains broadly stable throughout the 48-minute observing sequence. We further characterize the expansion with a quadratic parameterization and investigate its relation to pore properties. The three pores exhibit similar core magnetic field strengths but different expansion behaviors, indicating that the magnetic core strength alone does not determine the expansion. However, the present sample is too small to establish whether these differences are related to the thermodynamic or magnetic properties of the pores and their surroundings. These results demonstrate the potential of simultaneous multiline inversions for investigating the three dimensional magnetic topology of solar magnetic structures and provide the first direct measurements of the height-dependent magnetic expansion of solar pores.

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arXiv2026

Cause of chromospheric opposite polarity intrusions discovered in Sunrise III/SCIP data: MURaM-ChE simulations point to twisted flux ropes

The Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP) instrument onboard the balloon-borne Sunrise III observatory provided new high-resolution observations of the solar chromosphere in the Ca II 854.2 nm line. The Stokes-V signal in magnetic network regions was found to show fine-structured details, which suggests the magnetic field above the network elements does not simply expand as a unipolar feature but displays opposite-polarity-intrusions (OPIs). These features appear as elongated structures in Stokes-V observations. In this work, we demonstrate that such features appear ubiquitously in a numerical simulation of the solar chromosphere. We use a simulation that is computed with the recently developed chromospheric extension of MURaM (MURaM-ChE) and resembles an enhanced network region. We find that OPIs appear ubiquitously in the vertical component of the magnetic field at around 1 Mm above the surface and are visible in the synthetic Stokes-V signal of the Ca II 854.2 nm line. The structures have lengths of 2 Mm to 7 Mm and widths of approximately 1 Mm. The magnetic field configurations associated with the OPI features appear to belong to twisted flux ropes (TFRs) and are visible for most of the time in the presented 21 min time series. Our results show that the magnetic structure of the chromosphere is more complex than previously thought, with even seemingly simple flux tubes showing embedded twisted fields pointing in the opposite direction. This may help in explaining new high-resolution observations from the Sunrise III mission.

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arXiv2026

High-order Paschen emission from the quiet-Sun off-limb chromosphere

We report the detection of high-order hydrogen Paschen emission lines (Pa~15, Pa~16, and Pa~17) in the quiet-Sun chromosphere off the solar limb using the Chromospheric Infrared SpectroPolarimeter (SCIP) on board the {\sc Sunrise~iii} balloon telescope. These lines reveal thread-like structures resembling spicules and exhibit systematically smaller Doppler velocities than Ca~II~854.2~nm, suggesting that they are optically thinner and more affected by line-of-sight averaging, especially near the limb. Non-LTE radiative transfer synthesis using the spherically symmetric one-dimensional code \texttt{rhsphere} reproduces the overall spectral properties. The observed ratios among three Paschen lines show systematic deviations from synthetic and theoretical results, suggesting that additional physical effects may influence the formation of high-order Paschen lines. The study demonstrates the potential of high-order Paschen lines as a new diagnostic of optically thin plasma in the off-limb chromosphere.

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arXiv2026

Magnetoacoustic Portals in Quiet-Sun Fluxtubes Revealed by Chromospheric Spectropolarimetry with SUNRISE III/SCIP

Acoustic waves propagate into the chromosphere, contributing to energy transport and their dynamics. Their upward propagation is restricted to frequencies above the acoustic cutoff frequency. The magnetic field configuration plays a key role in determining whether acoustic waves can propagate upward because the cutoff frequency is reduced in regions where the field is inclined with respect to gravity, forming so-called magnetoacoustic portals. Previous studies linked magnetic fields and oscillations in quiet regions, but these analyses were based on photospheric magnetic field information, leaving chromospheric structure unconstrained. This study investigates the coupling between acoustic waves and magnetic topology using photospheric and, for the first time, chromospheric spectropolarimetry in a quiet region, obtained with the Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared SpectroPolarimeter (SCIP) aboard the Sunrise iii balloon-borne solar observatory launched in 2024. The SCIP sit-and-stare observations sampled magnetic features in which the line-of-sight field strength exhibits multiple sharp spatial peaks in the photosphere while becoming broader and weaker at two heights in the chromosphere, indicating expanding fluxtubes. The chromospheric velocity field in these fluxtubes exhibits strong 5-minute oscillations, while the surrounding regions show weak 3-minute oscillations. In these fluxtubes, sawtooth temporal velocity variations are associated with intensity enhancements, suggesting steepened shocks. Fluxtubes with low-frequency oscillations are identified not only in network regions but also in weak internetwork regions. These results provide observational evidence that fluxtubes expanding into the chromosphere act as magnetoacoustic portals, in both network and internetwork regions, allowing low-frequency waves to propagate upward and driving chromospheric dynamics via shocks.

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arXiv2026

Chromospheric Dynamics of an Umbral Flare Kernel - Based on Coordinated SUNRISE III SCIP and Domeless Solar Telescope Observations

We report imaging spectroscopic observations of an M1.4 solar flare obtained during a coordinated observation between the infrared spectropolarimeter SCIP onboard the SUNRISE-III balloon mission and Domeless Solar Telescope (DST) at Hida Observatory, Kyoto University. The flare that occurred on 2024 July 13 in NOAA Active Region 13738 exhibited a compact flare kernel located within a sunspot umbra. SCIP performed rapid slit-scan observations over a field of view of 58" x 58" around the umbra with a cadence of 40 s, covering infrared chromospheric and upper-photospheric lines including Ca II 8498/8542 A and K I D1. At the same time, DST observed a wider surrounding region with a cadence of 25 s in H-alpha, Ca II 8542 A, and Na I D1/D2. Clear flare-related brightenings are detected in all chromospheric lines observed by SCIP and DST, while no significant enhancement is found in photospheric lines. The high spatial resolution of SCIP reveals fine substructures within the kernel on spatial scales of order 1000 km, which appear smeared in ground-based observations. The spectral profiles exhibit temporally and spatially varying Doppler shifts and line broadenings, indicating complex, fine-scale plasma motions in the chromosphere. These results suggest that the observed red asymmetry arises from the temporal succession of multiple fine-scale kernels, as revealed by SCIP, rather than from a single continuous process.

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arXiv2026

Horizontal Magnetic Fields Dominate the Quiet Sun Internetwork in Sunrise III Observations. Evidence from Traditional and Transformer-Based Inversions

The relative prevalence of horizontal and vertical magnetic fields in the quiet-Sun internetwork remains debated, owing to the weak linear polarisation signals that make the inferred magnetic inclination distributions sensitive to observational quality and inversion methodology. We investigate the magnetic topology of the quiet-Sun internetwork in {\sc Sunrise~iii} observations by independently applying transformer-based and traditional inversion techniques to the same spectropolarimetric dataset. We analyse observations obtained with the Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP). Transformer-based inversions (SINN), trained exclusively on synthetic Stokes profiles generated from a large radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation, are compared with independent inversions performed using the \textsc{DeSIRe} code. Both inversion methods recover a quiet-Sun magnetic topology in which internetwork fields are strongly dominated by the horizontal component, whereas network fields exhibit a substantially more balanced topology. At $\logτ=-1.2$, the median horizontal and unsigned line-of-sight field components in the internetwork are 64 and 7G with \textsc{DeSIRe}, and 71 and 8G with SINN, respectively, corresponding to a horizontal-to-line-of-sight ratio of approximately nine for both methods. The agreement between the two fundamentally different inversion methodologies indicates that the quiet-Sun internetwork is characterised by a substantially stronger horizontal than vertical magnetic field component. These results demonstrate that transformer-based inversions can be successfully transferred from synthetic training data to real spectropolarimetric observations, while providing inference orders of magnitude faster than traditional inversion techniques.

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arXiv2026

Expanding magnetic canopy structure and parasitic polarities in a quiet-Sun network element observed by Sunrise III/SCIP

We present high-resolution multi-line spectropolarimetric observations of a quiet-Sun network element obtained with the {\sc Sunrise~iii} Chromospheric Infrared SpectroPolarimeter. The observations combine photospheric, upper-photospheric, and chromospheric diagnostics at a spatial resolution and polarimetric sensitivity that allow the transverse magnetic structure of the network boundary to be examined directly. We find that the strongest linear polarisation is concentrated in a narrow ridge around the edge of the magnetic element, co-spatial with enhanced transverse magnetic field inferred from multiline inversions. The magnetic azimuth exhibits a coherent, predominantly radial organisation around a more vertical core, consistent with an expanding magnetic canopy. An azimuth proxy derived directly from the observed Fe~\textsc{i} and K~\textsc{i} linear polarisation reproduces the same large-scale organisation, showing that this structure is encoded in the Stokes profiles rather than imposed by the inversion. Response functions and a MURaM-based forward-synthesis test indicate that the Fe~\textsc{i}~8468~Å linear polarisation is sensitive to magnetic azimuth in the upper photosphere, with the closest proxy agreement occurring near $\logτ\approx-3$. We find no evidence for strong azimuthal shear between the Fe- and K-sensitive diagnostics. At the network boundary, we also identify localised parasitic-polarity patches associated with complex, multi-lobed Stokes $V$ profiles, and one case in which the Stokes $V$ polarity reverses between photospheric Fe~\textsc{i} and chromospheric Ca~\textsc{ii} lines. These results demonstrate that quiet-Sun network boundaries contain organised upper-photospheric canopy fields together with small-scale mixed-polarity structure, providing new constraints on the three-dimensional magnetic structure of network elements.

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arXiv2026

Three-dimensional Magnetic Field Structure of a Quiet-Sun Region Revealed by Sunrise III/SCIP

The balloon-borne stratospheric solar observatory Sunrise III successfully completed 6.5 days of observations in July 2024. One of its focal-plane instruments, the Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter (SCIP), is a slit-scanning spectropolarimeter that simultaneously measures full Stokes profiles of multiple spectral lines in the 850 nm and 770 nm bands. SCIP obtained an unprecedented data set of a quiet-sun region near disk center, covering a $58'' \times 58''$ field of view. With an integration time of 10 s per slit position, the scan was completed in 107 minutes without interruption, achieving remarkably stable polarimetric precision of 0.03-0.04% (1$σ$) of the continuum level. The multi-wavelength SCIP observations reveal that the chromospheric line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field exhibits thread-like, elongated structures over the internetwork regions, with no obvious photospheric counterpart directly below. These threads are typically narrower than $1''$ and are embedded within the canopy fields extending from the network regions. Their LOS field strengths derived from the weak-field approximation are typically 10-20 G weaker than the surrounding canopy. In particularly clear cases, the magnetic polarity of the threads is opposite to that of the adjacent canopy. These findings suggest that the canopy field is not simply an expanding structure originating from network regions, but instead has a complex three-dimensional configuration containing numerous localized substructures. These observations provide new constraints on the quiet-sun magnetic topology from the photosphere to the chromosphere.

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arXiv2026

Three-dimensional Magnetic Structures of Ellerman Bombs revealed by SUNRISE III/SCIP

Ellerman bombs (EBs) are widely recognized as photospheric and chromospheric signatures of magnetic reconnection. However, the three-dimensional (3D) magnetic topology has remained elusive due to the lack of seamless height coverage in observations. Here, we present initial results from the SUNRISE III/SCIP (Sunrise Chromospheric Infrared spectroPolarimeter) observations of an emerging flux region. Exploiting the seeing-free, high-spatial-resolution observations provided by the 1-meter balloon-borne telescope, SCIP achieved seamless multi-line spectropolarimetry from the photosphere to the lower chromosphere. We analyzed the multi-line Stokes profiles of the photospheric Fe I and K I lines and the chromospheric Ca II lines, and applied the Weak Field Approximation to the K I and Ca II lines to reconstruct the 3D magnetic field structure. The blue- and red-wing brightenings of the Ca II 8542 Å line appear at spatially offset locations, indicating bi-directional reconnection flows. The reconstructed 3D magnetic field reveals that the opposite-polarity field structure reaches different heights in the two events analyzed. In one event, it is confined to the lower layers and is absent at the formation height of Ca II 8542 Å core, which shows no intensity enhancement, whereas in the other event it extends up to the Ca II 8542 Å core formation height, where enhanced line-core intensity is also observed. We interpret this as the reconnection current sheet reaching different altitudes. These results demonstrate that SCIP has successfully resolved the 3D structure of EBs, distinguishing magnetic reconnection events occurring at different atmospheric heights.

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arXiv2026

Magnetic Field Stratification in Active-Region Plage from Ca II K and Ca II 8542 Å Spectropolarimetry

We investigate the height variation of the line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field in solar active-region (AR) plage from the upper photosphere to the upper chromosphere using co-spatial ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) spectropolarimetric observations from the Sunrise III stratospheric balloon flight. The Ca II K and Ca II 8542 Å lines provide complementary chromospheric diagnostics, while nearby Fe I lines sample photospheric layers. The LOS magnetic field is inferred from the intensity and circular polarization profiles, applying the weak field approximation for the Ca II lines and the center-of-gravity method for the Fe I lines. The photospheric Fe I lines reveal strong, finely structured magnetic fields of the order of a kG. In contrast, the chromospheric Ca II diagnostics yield systematically weaker fields, typically in the $\sim$ 100-400 G range, with a more diffuse spatial distribution. Magnetic field maps inferred from the Ca II K line, formed higher in the chromosphere, are smoother and more extended than those derived from the Ca II 8542 Å line, which samples lower heights. We find that the magnetized area increases by a factor of $\sim$ 2 from the photosphere to the chromosphere. These results provide direct quantitative evidence that magnetic fields in AR plage weaken and expand with height, evolving from compact kG photospheric concentrations into weaker and more spatially extended structures in the upper chromosphere.

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arXiv2026

Height Dependent Phase Shifts of Wave Pulses in the Lower Solar Atmosphere Measured with SUNRISE III

We report on the measurement of the height-dependent time shifts of wave pulses in the lower solar atmosphere from high-resolution spectro-polarimetric observations obtained with the SUSI instrument on board the SUNRISE III balloon-borne solar observatory during its successful science flight in July 2024. The line-of-sight velocities derived from the line-core positions of 19 spectral lines in a 2 nm-wide window around the Ca II H line were used to determine the time shifts of propagating pulses at their respective formation heights. Our analysis reveals that these shifts are roughly ordered according to the computed formation heights of the respective spectral lines. A statistical analysis of the time shifts using sit-and-stare observations with a total duration of one hour reveals that wave pulses propagating upwards from near the solar surface to heights of approximately 500-700 km are most common, with average time lags of 20 s to 30 s between these heights. Also present are pulses with close-to-zero phase shifts, predominantly above intergranular lanes and areas of enhanced magnetic activity. Additionally, downward propagating wave pulses with negative time lags of 10 s to 15 s are seen, mostly above areas of enhanced magnetic activity. A common feature of all the observed pulses is that in the lower 250 km they show small time lags of zero to a few seconds, and only at higher layers do the propagating pulses become more dominant. This study demonstrates the potential of the many-line approach for investigating the height dependence of the physical conditions in the solar atmosphere.

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arXiv2026

Multi-height Identification of Sausage and Fluting Eigenmodes in a Solar Pore

Magnetic pores are compact, strongly magnetised waveguides in the lower solar atmosphere and therefore provide favourable conditions for identifying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave modes. Earlier seeing-free observations revealed concurrent sausage, kink, and fluting modes in photospheric pores, but only at a single sampled layer. In this Letter, we exploit the dense spectral sampling of the near-ultraviolet 327-329 nm window observed by the Sunrise-III UV Spectropolarimeter and Imager (SUSI) to investigate how pore wave modes behave across multiple photospheric and low-chromospheric heights spanning roughly 500 km. We analyse ~75 min of a Sunrise-III/SUSI time series containing a small solar pore. From eight selected spectral lines sampling different estimated formation heights, we identify the pore boundary at each line and time step and apply proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) to the boundary oscillations. In all eight lines, the first POD mode is consistently identified as an axisymmetric sausage mode, with dominant power at ~1-2 mHz, and carries the dominant normalised eigenvalue fraction, typically about 66-86%, while the second mode is a fluting mode with azimuthal wave number m = 2, dominant at ~2-3.5 mHz, and contributes about 4-10%. Cross-line wavelet phase analysis of the temporal coefficients shows that the sausage mode remains close to zero phase difference across the sampled heights, consistent with standing or near-standing behaviour, whereas the fluting mode displays a modest but systematic increase in phase with height, reaching about 50 degrees, indicative of an upward-propagating component. These observations provide the first multi-height identification and phase characterisation of sausage and fluting modes inferred from pore-boundary oscillations.

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arXiv2026

Multi-line Wave Signatures in a Sunspot from Near-UV Sunrise III/SUSI Observations

Magnetohydrodynamic waves redistribute energy in magnetic structures of the lower solar atmosphere, yet constraints on how wave power and dominant frequencies are organised above sunspots remain limited because most studies use only a few well-separated diagnostics. Here we present multiline wave signatures in a sunspot from near-UV spectroscopy with the Sunrise-III UV Spectropolarimeter and Imager (SUSI). We analyse a two-hour time series of repeated raster scans of a sunspot near disc centre in the 327-329 nm spectral window (> 100 lines). From these, we select 44 lines that radiative-transfer calculations suggest sample effective formation heights within the umbral core from deep photosphere toward the low chromosphere. For each line, we extract line-core intensity and line-of-sight velocity time series using a dedicated multi-line fitting routine and compute Morlet-wavelet power spectra. The refined global wavelet spectra show that most lines (in both intensity and velocity) are genuinely multi-frequency, with a dominant peak and substantial statistically significant power up to 12 mHz. Unsupervised clustering of the normalised spectra groups lines into families with similar spectral shapes and reveals a progression of dominant frequencies from ~2 to ~10 mHz across the ensemble, for both intensity and velocity (not necessarily in the same lines). This behaviour is not reproduced by a simple formation-height ranking, suggesting that uncertainties in the formation-height estimates and line-dependent diagnostic response together shape the ordering. These Sunrise-III/SUSI observations open a new regime for near-UV multi-line wave studies and provide the first systematic characterisation of frequency-structured sunspot wave behaviour in this spectral region.

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arXiv2026

Magnetically Structured Oscillatory Power Along an Active-Region Transect in Near-UV Sunrise-III/SUSI Spectroscopy

We present a multi-line characterisation of how oscillatory power is organised across distinct magnetic environments in an active region using seeing-free, stratospheric near-ultraviolet spectroscopy from the Sunrise-III UV Spectropolarimeter and Imager (SUSI). A two-hour time series of short raster scans in the line-rich 327-329 nm window samples along a single transect that contains the following regions: weak magnetic-field surroundings, a plage, a sunspot, and a pore. From a set of 30 selected, relatively unblended absorption lines, we extract line-core Doppler-velocity time series and compute Morlet-wavelet refined global spectra from which we form band-integrated power maps for three frequency bands (2-4, 4-6, and 6-12 mHz). The stacked, line-resolved maps reveal a clear environment-dependent redistribution of power: 2-4 mHz power is strongest in the weak-field/plage segments but is commonly suppressed in the umbra and pore cores, while 4-6 mHz and 6-12 mHz power becomes relatively enhanced in the strongest-field regions, with line-dependent behaviour in the penumbra and plage. Across the line ensemble, this broad frequency structuring is coherent, but the detailed spatial distribution and relative band ranking are not identical from line to line - even among spectral lines with comparable effective formation depths - demonstrating clear line dependence. This novel result implies that single-line measurements may miss secondary components of the local wave spectrum because different lines weight co-existing perturbations and modes differently; therefore, the SUSI near-UV window provides a uniquely diagnostic-rich mapping of oscillations, offering leverage that is difficult to obtain with traditional one- or two-line approaches.

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arXiv2026

Solar flare ribbons structured by uncombed chromospheric loops

A part of the magnetic energy released during a flare is transported to the lower atmosphere. High-resolution observations show that flare ribbons, sites of energy deposition at the footpoints of flaring loops which appear bright in the chromosphere and transition region, are structured on small spatial scales on the order of 100 km. Based on idealized numerical models of flares it is suggested that the ribbon fine-structures could originate from a tearing instability and the development of plasmoids in current sheets. Here we report on Fe I 5250.6 Å and Mg I b2 5173 Å spectral observations of a solar flare from the Tunable Magnetograph onboard the SUNRISE III balloon-borne mission that reveal an intricate link between the flare ribbon structure and the ambient chromosphere. We identified uncombed chromospheric loops and non-flaring fine-structures that are interspersed among brighter flare ribbon threads. These loops remain stable on timescales of minutes. Spectral lines from these regions show reduced emission or self-reversal in the line core compared with the immediately adjacent flare ribbons. We discuss the potential role of these structures in the onset of a flare. Furthermore, we suggest that irrespective of the complexities in the flaring current sheet, uncombed chromospheric loops and nonflaring fine-structure might play a role in spatially modulating the flare energy deposition in the lower atmosphere.

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arXiv2026

Sunrise III: Instrument, mission, data, and first results

Sunrise III is a stratospheric balloon-borne solar observatory with a 1-m diameter telescope and three post-focus instruments, along with an image stabilisation system, all within a protective gondola. It samples the lower solar atmosphere, from the solar surface to the middle chromosphere, at a resolution approaching 50~km on the Sun. Sunrise III flew successfully for 6.5 days suspended from a zero-pressure stratospheric balloon from northern Sweden to north-western Canada in July 2024, gathering around 200 TB of data. The present issue of ApJL focuses on the first scientific results from the data collected during that flight. This paper introduces this Focus Issue, providing a very brief overview of the capabilities of the instrumentation, the flight and of the gathered data. Challenges for the measurements, data reduction and interpretation are also briefly touched upon. The paper ends with an overview of the first set of science results obtained from these data, as presented in the current Focus Issue.

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arXiv2026

Quantifying the effect of passband on observations in the Ca II K line

Full-disk observations of the Sun in the Ca II K line have been carried out since the late 19th century at various observatories worldwide. These long-term records of solar activity are crucial for reducing discrepancies among solar irradiance reconstructions and for advancing our understanding of the solar dynamo. To construct a consistent composite record, data from different observatories must be cross-calibrated to account for variations in spectral passband and spatial resolution, which are the primary sources of discrepancies between archives. In this study, we use high spectral and spatial resolution observations in the Ca II K line from the state-of-the-art Sunrise III mission to emulate different passbands and derive empirical contrast-contrast relationships between them. We find that these relationships are well described by a power law and provide coefficients for different combinations of passband widths in the range 0.1--9 Angstroms and spatial resolutions between 1 arcsec and 6 arcsec. Applying such a relationship to observations from two major Ca II K archives demonstrates its potential to improve their cross-calibration. The results provide a foundation for the construction of a consistent, century-long time series of solar activity from historical and modern Ca II K observations.

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