First light of SINFONI at the VLT
Abstract
SINFONI is an Adaptive Optics assisted cryogenic Near Infrared Spectrograph developed by ESO and MPE in collaboration with NOVA. It was successfully commissioned between June and August at the Cassegrain focus of VLT UT4 (Yepun). The instrument will be offered to the community from April 2005 onwards (period 75) and will provide a unique facility in the field of high spatial and spectral resolution studies of compact objects (star-forming regions, nuclei of galaxies, cosmologically distant galaxies, galactic centre etc.).
- Publication:
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The Messenger
- Pub Date:
- September 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004Msngr.117...17B