ERIS

Short Description:

ERIS is an instrument for diffraction limited imaging, coronography and spectroscopy on the Cassegrain focus of VLT UT4 in the 1 to 5µm spectral range to be commissioned in late 2017. It will combine the existing integral field spectrograph SPIFFI with a new near infrared camera and a wavefront sensor module for the ESO adaptive optics facility.

Project Type:

Instrumentation for ground-based telescope

MPE Contribution:

A consortium consisting of ATC (Edinburg), INAF (Arcetri, Teramo, Padua), ETH (Zürich) und NOVA (Leiden) with MPE as the project leader is responsible for the development of the instrument for ESO.

Status:

- Final Design Review (FDR): 2017

- First light at the telescope: 2020

Links:

ERIS pages at MPE

ERIS pages at ESO

ERIS pages at ETH

SPIFFI pages at MPE

Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy (web pages of the MPE department involved in the project)