Bug#709321: ITP: cpl-plugin-fors -- ESO data reduction pipeline for FORS
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ole Streicher <debian@liska.ath.cx>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-science@lists.debian.org
* Package name : cpl-plugin-fors
Version : 4.9.23
Upstream Author : ESO
* URL : http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/fors
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : ESO data reduction pipeline FORS
FORS pipeline recipes for the reduction of data obtained with the FORS1
and FORS2 instruments in the LSS, MOS, MXU, PMOS, and direct imaging
instrument modes.
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FORS is the visual and near UV FOcal Reducer and low dispersion
Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern
Observatory (ESO). Two versions of FORS have been built, upgraded and
moved to the Cassegrain foci of different telescopes in the past years.
In April 2009, FORS1 was dismounted to make room for X-shooter, so only
FORS2 is in operation. FORS is designed as an all-dioptric instrument
for the wavelength range from 330 nm to 1100 nm and provides an image
scale of 0".25/pixel (or 0".125/pixel with the high resolution
collimator) in the standard readout mode (2x2 binning). FORS2 is
installed on UT1 (Antu) and is by default equipped with a detector
system that is optimised for the red with a very low level of fringes
thanks to a mosaic of two 2k x 4k MIT CCDs (with 15 µm pixels). However,
the blue-optimised detector system that was previously available on
FORS1 has been commissioned on FORS2 and can be requested for Visitor
Mode observation. The geometries of both detector systems are similar,
with the optical axis falling ~30" above the gap and offsets of a few
arc-seconds between the two chips. FORS2 has many modes, including
multi-object spectroscopy with exchangable masks, long-slit
spectroscopy, imaging and spectro-polarimetry and high-time resolution
imaging and spectroscopy.
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