SINFONI - Integral field spectroscopy at 50 milli-arcsecond resolution with the ESO VLT

By F. Eisenhauer, R. Abuter, K. Bickert, F. Biancat-Marchet, H. Bonnet, J. Brynnel, R. Conzelmann, B. Delabre, R. Donaldson, J. Farinato and 13 more. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2003

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SINFONI is an adaptive optics assisted near-infrared integral field spectrometer for the ESO VLT. The Adaptive OPtics Module (built by the ESO Adaptive Optics Group) is a 60-elements curvature-sensor based system, designed for operations with natural or sodium laser guide stars. The near-infrared integral field spectrometer SPIFFI (built by the Infrared Group of MPE) provides simultaneous spectroscopy of 32 x 32 spatial pixels, and a spectral resolving power of up to 3300. The adaptive optics module is in the phase of integration; the spectrometer is presented tested in the laboratory. We provide an overview of the project, with particular emphasis on the problems encountered in designing and building an adaptive optics assisted spectrometer.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Instrumentation, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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• The SINS/zC-SINF Survey of z ∼ 2 Galaxy Kinematics: SINFONI Adaptive Optics–assisted Data and Kiloparsec-scale Emission-line Properties (2018, methodology): “Observations The observations of the SINS/zC-SINF AO sample were carried out with SINFONI (Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bonnet et al. 2004) mounted at the Cassegrain focus of the VLT UT4 telescope.”
• OBSERVING STRATEGY FOR THE SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU GALAXY SURVEY (2015, methodology): “Simultaneous and integral coverage of the spatial field is desirable and achieved by a number of instruments using lenslets (e.g., SAURON, OSIRIS; Bacon et al. 2001; Larkin et al. 2003) or image slicers (e.g., SINFONI, MUSE; Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bacon et al. 2010).”
• FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS AND SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF YOUNG AND FIELD AGE OBJECTS WITH MASSES SPANNING THE STELLAR TO PLANETARY REGIME (2015, unknown): “…al. (2002), (8) Simcoe et al. (2008), (9) Elias et al. (2006), (10)Wilson et al. (2004), (11) Mountain et al. (1990), (12) Depoy et al. (1993), (13) Eisenhauer et al. (2003), (14) Bonnet et al. (2004), (15) Matthews & Soifer (1994), (16) Kobayashi et al. (2000), (17) Hodapp et al. (2003), (18)…”
• A Close Look at Star Formation around Active Galactic Nuclei (2007, methodology): “Data for NGC 7469, NGC 2992, NGC 1097, NGC 1068, and NGC 3783 were taken during 2004Y2005 at the VLT with SINFONI, an AO near-infrared integral field spectrograph (Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bonnet et al. 2004).”
• Metallicity evolution, metallicity gradients, and gas fractions at z ~ 3.4 (2013, methodology): “Blue symbols show the comparison between the true mass of gas and our new method by using the SINFONI resolution.”
• A Log-Quadratic Relation for Predicting Supermassive Black Hole Masses from the Host Bulge Sérsic Index (2006, methodology): “It may be advantageous to confirm this galaxy’s SMBH mass using adaptive optics (AO) assisted integral field spectroscopy with instruments such as NIFS (Near-Infrared Integral-Field Spectrograph; McGregor et al. 2003) or SINFONI (Spectrograph for Integral Field Observations in the Near Infrared; Eis”
• THE SINS SURVEY: MODELING THE DYNAMICS OF z ∼ 2 GALAXIES AND THE HIGH-z TULLY–FISHER RELATION (2009, methodology): “We compare the velocity and velocity dispersion maps, derived from the SINFONI data as described in Sec.”
• THE SINFONI BLACK HOLE SURVEY: THE BLACK HOLE FUNDAMENTAL PLANE REVISITED AND THE PATHS OF (CO)EVOLUTION OF SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES AND BULGES (2016, methodology): “In summary, our SINFONI black hole sample consists of 30 galaxies that we observed with the Spectrograph for INtegral Field Observations in the Near Infrared (Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bonnet et al. 2003, SINFONI,) at the UT4 of the Very Large Telescope under nearly diffraction limited conditions.”
• EVIDENCE FOR PopIII-LIKE STELLAR POPULATIONS IN THE MOST LUMINOUS Lyα EMITTERS AT THE EPOCH OF REIONIZATION: SPECTROSCOPIC CONFIRMATION (2015, methodology): “We also find that the peak of HeII emission line (from SINFONI, although with low spatial S/N) and the peak of Lyα (high S/N but extended) likely originate (within the errors) from the centre of the brightest UV clump (A).”
• MONITORING STELLAR ORBITS AROUND THE MASSIVE BLACK HOLE IN THE GALACTIC CENTER (2008, methodology): “We applied the standard data reduction for SINFONI data, including detector calibrations (such as bad pixel corrections, flat-fielding and distortion corrections) and cube reconstruction.”
• Detection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole (2018, methodology): “…were taken with the AO-assisted integral field spectrometer SINFONI at the VLT (Eisenhauer et al. 2003a; Bonnet et al. 2004), with five additional 2000-2003 slit-spectra from the AO imagers and spectrometers NIRC2 at Keck (see Ghez et al. 2003; Chu et al. 2018) and NACO (Eisenhauer et al. 2003b).”
• Disk-mediated accretion burst in a high-mass young stellar object (2016, methodology): “5μm) integral field unit (IFU) spectroscopic data of S255IR NIRS 3 consist of three datasets taken with SINFONI (42) on VLT (ESO, Chile) with R∼4000 and NIFS (43) on the Gemini North telescope with R∼5300.”
• THE SINS/zC-SINF SURVEY of z ∼ 2 GALAXY KINEMATICS: OUTFLOW PROPERTIES (2012, methodology): “In this paper we analyze the outflow properties of 27 z ∼ 2 SFGs, discussed in more detail in Förster Schreiber et al. (2012) and based on new high-quality Hα emission line SINFONI/VLT integral field (IFU) spectroscopy with adaptive optics (AO) (Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bonnet et al. 2004).”
• From Rings to Bulges: Evidence for Rapid Secular Galaxy Evolution at z ~ 2 from Integral Field Spectroscopy in the SINS Survey (2008, methodology): “The SINFONI AO data sets for BX 482 and BzK 15504, as well as the NIC2/ACS images of BX 482, BX 389, BX 610, and MD 41, have sufficiently high resolution for determining the intrinsic clump sizes.”
• 3D BAROLO: a new 3D algorithm to derive rotation curves of galaxies (2015, unknown): “Instruments like SINFONI (Eisenhauer et al. 2003), KMOS (Sharples et al. 2008) and MUSE (Bacon et al. 2010) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) can observe line emission, such as Hα, N and O forbidden lines, in galaxies up to redshift about 2.5, with a resolution similar to the observations showed in ”
• Dynamical Properties of z ~ 2 Star-forming Galaxies and a Universal Star Formation Relation (2007, methodology): “Such measurements are now feasible with near-IR integral field spectrographs (IFUs) on 8 m class telescopes, with SINFONI at the ESO/VLT (e.g., Förster Schreiber et al. 2006) and with OSIRIS on Keck (e.g., Wright et al. 2007), and with high-resolution millimeter interferometry in CO rotation lines,”
• Stellar and wind properties of massive stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy (2006, methodology): “The observations analysed here were conducted with the integral field spectrograph SPIFFI/SINFONI on the ESO/VLT Yepun 8 m telescope (Eisenhauer et al. 2003a,b; Bonnet et al. 2004) as part of the MPE-Garching GTO program “Galactic Center”.”
• Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole (2020, methodology): “…– 92 spectroscopic measurements of the 2.167 µm HI (Brγ) and the 2.11 µm HeI lines between 2003.3 and 2019.45 with the AO-assisted integral field spectrometer SINFONI at the VLT (Eisenhauer et al. 2003; Bonnet et al. 2003), with an uncertainty of ≈ 12 km/s (Gravity Collaboration et al. 2019).”
• The Two Young Star Disks in the Central Parsec of the Galaxy: Properties, Dynamics, and Formation (2006, methodology): “We report in this paper SPIFFI/SINFONI observations in 2003, 2004 and 2005 that give important new information on the location, dynamics and evolution of the massive, early type stars in the central parsec.”
• The properties of the star-forming interstellar medium at z = 0.84-2.23 from HiZELS : mapping the internal dynamics and metallicity gradients in high-redshift disc galaxies. (2012, methodology): “To map the nebular Hα emission-line properties of the galaxies in our sample, we used the SINFONI IFU on the European Southern Observatory/Very Large Telescope (ESO/VLT; Eisenhauer et al. 2003).”