SINFONI: a near-infrared AO-assisted integral field spectrometer for the VLT

Niranjan A. Thatte; Matthias Tecza; Frank Eisenhauer; Sabine Mengel; Alfred Krabbe; S. Pak; Reinhard Genzel; Domenico Bonaccini; Eric Emsellem; Francois J. Rigaut; Bernard Delabre; Guy J. Monnet

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11 September 1998 SINFONI: a near-infrared AO-assisted integral field spectrometer for the VLT

Niranjan A. Thatte, Matthias Tecza, Frank Eisenhauer, Sabine Mengel, Alfred Krabbe, S. Pak, Reinhard Genzel, Domenico Bonaccini, Eric Emsellem, Francois J. Rigaut, Bernard Delabre, Guy J. Monnet

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Proceedings Volume 3353, Adaptive Optical System Technologies; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321638
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 1998, Kona, HI, United States

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SINFONI, the SINgle Faint Object Near-IR Investigation, is an instrument for the very large telescope, designed to provide spectroscopy at the telescope diffraction limit in the near-IR. This unique capability is achieved by combining two state-of-the-art developments, an integral field spectrometer and a curvature sensor based adaptive optics system. SINFONI is a collaborative effort by the Max-Planck- Institut fuer extraterrsetrische Physik and the European Southern Observatory.

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Niranjan A. Thatte, Matthias Tecza, Frank Eisenhauer, Sabine Mengel, Alfred Krabbe, S. Pak, Reinhard Genzel, Domenico Bonaccini, Eric Emsellem, Francois J. Rigaut, Bernard Delabre, and Guy J. Monnet "SINFONI: a near-infrared AO-assisted integral field spectrometer for the VLT", Proc. SPIE 3353, Adaptive Optical System Technologies, (11 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321638

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