SINFONI - Integral Field Spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT
Abstract
SINFONI is an adaptive optics assisted near-infrared integral field spectrometer for the ESO VLT. The Adaptive Optics Module (built by the ESO Adaptive Optics Group) is a 60-elements curvature-sensor based system, designed for operations with natural or sodium laser guide stars. The near-infrared integral field spectrometer SPIFFI (built by the Infrared Group of MPE) provides simultaneous spectroscopy of 32 x 32 spatial pixels, and a spectral resolving power of up to 3300. The adaptive optics module is in the phase of integration; the spectrometer is presently tested in the laboratory. We provide an overview of the project, with particular emphasis on the problems encountered in designing and building an adaptive optics assisted spectrometer.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0306191,
title = {SINFONI - Integral Field Spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT},
author = {F. Eisenhauer and H. Bonnet and R. Abuter and K. Bickert and F. Bianca-Marchet and J. Brynnel and R. Conzelmann and B. Delabre and R. Donaldson and J. Farinato and E. Fedrigo and G. Finger and R. Genzel and N. Hubin and C. Iserlohe and M. Kasper and M. Kissler-Patig and G. Monnet and C. Roehrle and J. Schreiber and S. Stroebele and M. Tecza and N. Thatte and H. Weisz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0306191},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
This paper was published in Proc. SPIE, 4841, pp. 1548-1561 (2003), and is made available as an electronic reprint with permission of SPIE. Copyright notice added to first page of article