Instrument's Characteristics
SINFONI is built from two components - the SINFONI AO module and the SPIFFI infrared integral field spectrograph:
Sinfoni - Adaptive Optics Modulecurvature sensing / bimorph mirror |
SPIFFISPectrometer for Infrared Faint Field Imaging |
ESO internal development |
A comprehensive description of the SINFONI instrument is given in the user manual. We provide a brief overview of the adaptive optics system (SINFONI AO) and the integral field spectrograph (SPIFFI) on the following pages:
- SINFONI-AO: short description and performance overview
- SPIFFI: short description
More information can be obtained with the following links:
Literature queries about SINFONI
A summary of the SINFONI Science Verfication and Guarantied Time Observation projects can be found following the respective hyperlinks. Some early results obtained from the SINFONI commissioning observations are presented in the ESO Messenger 117 and in the press release about the first light observations of SINFONI.
Authors of publications based on SINFONI data may want to refer to the following publications or the references given therein:
- Bonnet et al. 2004: First Light of SINFONI at the VLT; ESO Messenger 117, p17
- Eisenhauer et al. 2003: SINFONI - Integral field spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT; SPIE 4841, p. 1548