Schmidt Observatory System
This is the documentation site for The Schmidt Observatory System. See the links below for documentation for the different codes and projects.
Documentation sets
- WCC Simulator
End-to-end photometric image simulator for the Wide-field Context Camera (WCC) on Lazuli. Goes from a pointing on the sky to a calibratable multi-extension FITS image, with Gaia DR3 source injection, in-focus and defocused PSFs, and a full noise and saturation model.
- WCC exposure time calculator
The WCC instrument model — throughput, count rates, sky background, dark current, read noise, and full-well/ADC saturation. The simulator calls into the ETC, so the two agree by construction.
- ESC exposure time calculator
The instrument model for the ESC coronagraphic instrument — throughput, count rates, backgrounds, and detector noise — in the same form as the WCC ETC.
- lazuli-exo
Exoplanet transmission spectroscopy simulator for the Lazuli IFS. Returns a model transmission spectrum binned to the IFS with photon/read-noise error bars for a chosen number of transits, for showcase planets or any parametric planet, using slicersim for the noise.
- slicersim
Image slicer simulator and exposure time calculator for the Integral Field Spectrograph (IFS) on Lazuli.