Instrumentation Projects of the PSF department
The PSF department is involved in a number of astronomical instrumentation projects, ranging from space instruments like MIRI and long baseline interferometers like GRAVITY to Adaptive Optics instruments like SPHERE.
For a list of all current and past MPIA instrumentation projects, see the overview of ground-based and of space-based projects.
Current instrumentation projects
METIS is one of the three first instruments for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), Europe’s next-generation ground-based telescope for optical and infrared wavelengths which is currently under construction at the ESO site at Cerro Armazones in Chile.
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GRAVITY is a 2nd generation near-infrared VLTI instrument that combines the light of the four unit or four auxiliary telescopes of the ESO Paranal observatory in Chile.
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The main objective of SPHERE is to detect and characterize, by means of direct imaging, giant exoplanets in orbit around nearby stars.
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A mid-infrared imaging spectro-interferometer for the ESO/VLT.
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Mid-infrared Instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (NASA, ESA and CSA)
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