METIS wiki

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As of 12 April 2018

Development plan / Milestones

for each milestone, the minimum required points to release that version are given; additional goals (best effort basis) are printed in Italics.

Simcado with bug fixes to support simulations at 3-20 microns
Configuration files for METIS LM and NQ band imaging
Transmission curves (sky emission / absorption, mirror reflectivity, entrance window, detector QE, dichroic transmission, filter curves) extended and/or adapted for METIS LM and NQ bands
iPython notebooks with example use cases for both LM and NQ band imaging
output fluxes in LM and NQ band imaging verified against Roy’s fluxes document

output fluxes in LM and NQ band imaging verified against Roy’s fluxes document
create pickled OpticalTrain objects for all METIS imaging observing modes for faster operation

All METIS modes implemented, tested and verified against theoretical expectations and/or actual observations with similar instruments
Example notebooks available and reproducibly executable for all METIS modes
Adapt Simcado for VISIR and verify against actual observations

OpticalTrain
- include time-resolved jitter effects
- include sub-pixel shifts for spectro-spatial effects for Vortex coronagraphy
- instrument-internal emission (possibly requiring a different treatment of the global transmission/emission model)
- List of transmissive elements (e.g. multiple dichroics currently not supported)
- Implement fixed ADCs (give residuals of the partial atmospheric dispersion correction as static input?)
Detector
- Aquarius noise generator (including ELFN, non-linear gain curve, correlated noise)
- Chopping and nodding (including chop-difference residuals?)