SERPIL-LIINUS
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SERPIL-LIINUS - a Near-Infrared Interferometric Integral Field Spectrometer for the LBT 		 
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 SERPIL-LIINUS
A Near-Infrared Interferometric Integral Field Spectrometer for the LBT



The . LBT (Large Binocular Telescope), located on Mt. Graham near Tucson/Arizona at an altitude of about 3200m, is an innovative project being undertaken by European and USA institutions. The . MPE is a partner in the project through the LBT Beteiligungsgeselschaft (LBTB) which coordinates the participation of five German institutes in the undertaking. The structure of the telescope incorprates two 8.4-meter mirrors on a 14.4 meter center-to-center common mount. This configuration provides the equivalent collecting area of a 12 meter telescope, and when combined coherently, the two optical paths offer diverse possibilities for interferometry. Currently two different beam combiners are being developed for the LBT: the . LBTI (Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer) performing nulling interferometry, and . LINC-NIRVANA (the LBT INterferometric Camera, Near-IR / Visible Adaptive INterferometer for Astronomy), a Fizeau interferometer incorporating multi-conjugate AO.


. SERPIL-LIINUS (Spectrograph for Enhanced Resolution Performing Imaging Interferometry on the LBT - LINC-NIRVANA Interferometric Imaging Near-infrared Upgrade Spectrograph) is a design study for a near-infrared integral field spectrograph for interferometric diffraction-limitted observations at the LBT.  This instrument offers the exceptional possibility of diffraction limited imaging spectroscopy at a 23 meter-class telescope, when the light of the two primary mirrors of the LBT is combined coherently in the Fizeau interferometric mode. SERPIL-LIINUS will expand the possibilities of the LINC/NIRVANA camera adding a spectrographic mode, providing high resolution infrared spectra of more than 1000 image pixels of a two dimensional field.

SERPIL-LIINUS is developed at the .  Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching and . the First Physics Institute of the University of Cologne.


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Fig 1. Design Views of the LBT


For more information please contact:
Francisco Mueller Sanchez
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Postfach 1312
D-85741 Garching
Germany

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last update: 13/04/2006, editor of this page: Francisco Mueller-Sanchez


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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