Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik

- Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy -

Infrared/Submillimeter Instrumentation at MPE

Very Large Telescope	Large Binocular Telescope	HERSCHEL

The click-able figure below illustrates:

• MICADO , MCAO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations
• Far-infrared detector array development for SOFIA and the Herschel Space Observatory (formerly known as FIRST).
• FIFI LS , the Field-Imaging Far-Infrared Line Spectrometer for the SOFIA airborne observatory.
• KMOS , a multi integral field spectrograph
• VLTI , the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
• GRAVITY , an adaptive optics assisted, near-infrared VLTI instrument for precision narrow-angle astrometry and interferometric phase referenced imaging of faint objects.
• SERPIL-LIINUS , a Near-Infrared Interferometric Integral Field Spectrometer for the LBT.
• EUCLID is a Cosmic Vision Survey Mission.
• ARGOS - the Laser Guide Stars for the LBT.

and experiments which are/were operational at telescopes or on satellites

• PACS , a far-infrared imaging photometer and spectrometer instrument for the Herschel Space Observatory (formerly known as FIRST)
• LUCIFER , a facility NIR spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope
• PARSEC , the laser for the VLT (part of the ESO LGSF)
• SINFONI, a state-of-the-art imaging NIR spectrometer ( SPIFFI [MPE]) plus an adaptive optics system ( MACAO [ESO])
• CONICA , a diffraction-limited near infrared camera for the ESO VLT
• LISA , the near infrared camera for the VLT Interferometer Commissionning Instrument (VINCI)
• ALFA , an adaptive optics system with a laser guide star (since 1996)
• high spatial resolution near-infrared speckle cameras SHARP I (1991-2002) and SHARP II+ (1995-2002)
• the 30m Telescope (since 1985) and Plateau de Bure Interferometer (since 1992), systems for high sensitivity and high spatial resolution millimeter wavelength observations. Both facilities are operated by IRAM .
• the first integral field near-infrared spectrometer 3D (since 1993)
• Infrared Space Observatory Short Wavelength Spectrometer, ISO-SWS , an instrument which provided high sensitivity spectrocopic data from 2.4 - 45µm (1995 - 1998)
• MANIAC , a unique instrument designed for simultaneous observations in the near-infrared and mid-infrared (since 1996)