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Versatile multi object spectroscopy with FORS
at the ESO Very Large Telescope
Wolfgang Mitsch,
Gero Rupprecht, Walter Seifert, Harald Nicklas, Swen Kiesewetter
Abstract:
The focal reducer and low dispersion spectrograph FORS which is presently
under construction for the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) will be an all
dioptric focal reducer instrument designed for direct imaging,
low-dispersion multi object spectroscopy, imaging- and spectropolarimetry
of faint objects. A central mechanical component of
FORS is the multi object spectroscopy (MOS) unit. The design and the
observation capabilities of the MOS are described. Further details on the
whole instrument are given in [1].
Two identical copies of the instrument will be built by a consortium of
three astronomical institutes (Landessternwarte Heidelberg and the
University Observatories of Göttingen and Munich) under contract and in
cooperation with ESO. The instruments will be installed at the Cassegrain
foci of two unit telescopes of the VLT.
Created by
S. Kiesewetter-Köbinger
Fri Oct 20 14:00:42 MET 1995