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. It combines the existing integral field spectrograph SPIFFI with a new near infrared camera and a wavefront sensor module for the ESO adaptive optics facility.
ERIS replaces the previous successful instruments NACO and SINFONI, for which the SPIFFI module is re-used and combined with a wave front senor of the AOF.
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:
In operation since 2022
Links:
Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy (web pages of the MPE department involved in the project)
