Benjamin M. Dobke
Astronomical Image Simulation for Telescope and Survey Development
Dobke, Benjamin M.; Johnston, David E.; Massey, Richard; High, F. William; Ferry, Matt; Rhodes, Jason; Vanderveld, R. Ali
Authors
David E. Johnston
Professor Richard Massey r.j.massey@durham.ac.uk
Professor
F. William High
Matt Ferry
Jason Rhodes
R. Ali Vanderveld
Abstract
We present the simage software suite for the simulation of artificial extragalactic images, based empirically around real observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The simulations reproduce galaxies with realistic and complex morphologies via the modeling of UDF galaxies as shapelets. Images can be created in the B, V, i and z bands for both space- and ground-based telescopes and instruments. The simulated images can be produced for any required field size, exposure time, PSF, telescope mirror size, pixel resolution, field star density, and a variety of detector noise sources. It has the capability to create images with either a predetermined number of galaxies, or one calibrated to the number counts of preexisting data sets such as the HST COSMOS survey. In addition, simple options are included to add a known weak gravitational lensing signal (both shear and flexion) to the simulated images. The software is available in IDL and can be freely downloaded for scientific, developmental, and teaching purposes.
Citation
Dobke, B. M., Johnston, D. E., Massey, R., High, F. W., Ferry, M., Rhodes, J., & Vanderveld, R. A. (2010). Astronomical Image Simulation for Telescope and Survey Development. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 122(894), 947-954. https://doi.org/10.1086/656016
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2010 |
Deposit Date | Mar 21, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 24, 2015 |
Journal | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Print ISSN | 0004-6280 |
Electronic ISSN | 1538-3873 |
Publisher | Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 122 |
Issue | 894 |
Pages | 947-954 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1086/656016 |
Keywords | Astronomical techniques. |
Publisher URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656016 |
Files
arXiv version
(1 Mb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
arXiv version
You might also like
Scanning for dark matter subhaloes in Hubble Space Telescope imaging of 54 strong lenses
(2023)
Journal Article
Data Downloaded via Parachute from a NASA Super-Pressure Balloon
(2023)
Journal Article
A Recent Impact Origin of Saturn’s Rings and Mid-sized Moons
(2023)
Journal Article
RXJ0437+00: constraining dark matter with exotic gravitational lenses
(2023)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Durham Research Online (DRO)
Administrator e-mail: dro.admin@durham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search