论文标题
福特：在Paranal中制作最通用的乐器准备15年的运营
FORS-Up: Making the most versatile instrument in Paranal ready for 15 more years of operations
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论文摘要
FORS升级项目（FORS-UP）旨在为ESO非常大型望远镜（VLT）附属的备受苛刻的主力仪器带来新的生活。 Fors2是一种多模光学仪器，该仪器于2000年开始定期进行科学运营，从那时起，其双胞胎福克斯（Fors1）一直是VLT中需求最高，最有生产力的工具之一。为了确保福克斯至少要再运行15年，已计划进行升级。这是必需的，因为FORS2使用的技术和软件现在已过时，并且无法将其放置在天文台使用的标准中。该项目是作为Trieste的ESO与INAF宪法观测站之间的合作 - 旨在在2023/2024将望远镜带到望远镜上，这是一种带有新的科学探测器的翻新仪器，升级了仪器控制软件和电子设备，新的校准单元，以及其他滤镜和其他滤镜和其他滤镜。新的FORS还将用作极大的望远镜（ELT）标准技术的测试工作台（其中包括使用可编程逻辑控制器和ELT Control软件的功能）。该项目旨在通过对当前退役的仪器进行升级并改造蒙版交换单元和极化光学器件从fors2到fors1来最大程度地减少仪器的停机时间。
The FORS Upgrade project (FORS-Up) aims at bringing a new life to the highly demanded workhorse instrument attached to ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). FORS2 is a multimode optical instrument, which started regular science operations in 2000 and since then, together with its twin, FORS1, has been one of the most demanded and most productive instruments of the VLT. In order to ensure that a FORS shall remain operational for at least another 15 years, an upgrade has been planned. This is required as FORS2 is using technology and software that is now obsolete and cannot be put and maintained to the standards in use at the Observatory. The project - carried out as a collaboration between ESO and INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste - aims at bringing to the telescope in 2023/2024 a refurbished instrument with a new scientific detector, an upgrade of the instrument control software and electronics, a new calibration unit, as well as additional filters and grisms. The new FORS will also serve as a test bench for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) standard technologies (among them the use of programmable logic controllers and of the features of the ELT Control Software). The project aims at minimising the downtime of the instrument by performing the upgrade on the currently decommissioned instrument FORS1 and retrofitting the Mask Exchange Unit and polarisation optics from FORS2 to FORS1.
