The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen (Germany) invites researchers to stay at the Institute for up to three months to exploit SO/PHI and Sunrise III data. MPS will cover accommodation costs of all selected guest investigators. Travel may be covered if needed and if sufficient funds are available. Researchers interested in using SO/PHI or Sunrise III data for their research will have the opportunity to work with our SO/PHI and Sunrise III experts to fully exploit the potential of the data for their research. In addition, the broad range of solar research at the MPS will allow close collaboration with experts in many areas of solar physis, including MHD simulations, radiative transfer in non-LTE and inversion problems.
SO/PHI onboard the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter space mission provides both high-resolution and full-disk vector magnetograms and Dopplergrams (https://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-physics/solar-orbiter-phi) taken from various vantage points out of the Sun-Earth line. This includes the first-ever such data of the solar far side and of the poles from out of the ecliptic plane. Guest investigators will receive full access to all levels of SO/PHI data products and data processing tools, and will be supported in applying these to their research interests as well as in preparing for new observations.
Sunrise III, a balloon-borne solar observatory, recorded 200 TByte of high-resolution spectropolarimetric data across the near-UV, visible, and near-IR wavelength range of unprecedented quality during its 6.5-day flight (https://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-physics/sunrise). These science-ready high-resolution and low-noise data cover the solar photosphere and chromosphere. Guest investigators will have full access to all Sunrise III data at all levels of data reduction. With support of the Sunrise team, data sets may be customized to the guest investigators’ scientific projects.
Researchers who wish to participate in the program are asked to send an application including a CV, a publication list and a description of the planned research (less than 1 page) to Sami K. Solanki ([email protected]) with cc to Andreas Lagg ([email protected]) and/or Johann Hirzberger ([email protected]) until March 31, 2026. Later applications will be considered if funds are available. The selected researchers are expected to be informed sufficiently before the end of April, and the visit at the MPS should take place between May and October 2026.