Abstract:
The AIP is involved in a variety of projects to develop instrumentation and to scientifically use the technique of integral-field (IFS) or 3-dimensional spectroscopy (3DS). In particular, the AIP built Potsdam Multi-Aperture Spectrophotometer (PMAS) at the CaDevelopments in 3D- and Fiber-spectroscopy at the AIP lar Alto Observatory was used for both as technological test-bench and for observational programmes. Amongst others, the scientific programmes include the observations of Planetary Nebulae and their haloes (Schonberner et al., Monreal-Ibero et al.; Sandin et al.), Lyman-alpha absorbers (Christensen et al.), lensed Quasars (Wisotzki et al.) and host galaxies (Jahnke et al.), Spiral Galaxies (Verheijen et al.) and merger objects (Sanchez et al.).As a partner, the AIP is also involved in the development of two future 3D-instruments, MUSE for the ESO-VLT and VIRUS for HET, which will be the largest spectrographs with respect to either number of spaxels or field of view. The talk will present the status of the MUSE and VIURS projects and give some expamples of scientific programmes undertaken with PMAS.