MICADO will be the first-light wide-field imager for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and will provide difiraction limited imaging (7mas at 1.2mm) over a ~53 arcsecond field of view. In order to support various consortium activities we have developed a first version of SimCADO: an instrument simulator for MICADO. SimCADO uses the results of the detailed simulation efforts conducted for each of the separate consortium-internal work packages in order to generate a model of the optical path from source to detector readout. SimCADO is thus a tool to provide scientific context to both the science and instrument development teams who are ultimately responsible for the final design and future capabilities of the MICADO instrument. Here we present an overview of the inner workings of SimCADO and outline our plan for its further development.
@article{arxiv.1609.01480,
title = {SimCADO - an instrument data simulator package for MICADO at the E-ELT},
author = {Kieran Leschinski and Oliver Czoske and Rainer Köhler and Michael Mach and Werner Zeilinger and Gijs Verdoes Kleijn and Joao Alves and Wolfgang Kausch and Norbert Przybilla},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01480},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
to appear in Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, eds. Evans C., Simard L., Takami H., Proc. SPIE vol. 9908 id 73; 2016