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The FORS instrument is a focal reducer which is under construction for the Cassegrain focus of the ESO VLT telescopes. FORS is being built by a consortium of three german institutes. It is optimized for spectroscopy and imaging of very faint sources.
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Stahl, O. et al. (1997). Spectroscopy with FORS. In: Kontizas, E., Kontizas, M., Morgan, D.H., Vettolani, G.P. (eds) Wide-Field Spectroscopy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 212. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5722-3_6
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