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.