ExoRad, the generic point source radiometric model, interfaces with any instrument to provide an estimate of several Payload performance metrics.
As an example, for each target and for each photometric and spectroscopic channel, ExoRad provides estimates of:
- Signals in pixels
- Saturation times
- read noise
- photon noise
- dark current noise
- zodiacal bkg
- inner sanctum
- sky foreground
The code is under development, so, please report any issue or inaccuracy to the developers to support the implementation.
ExoRad has been developed from ArielRad (Mugnai et al. submitted). If you use this software please cite: Mugnai et al, "ArielRad: the ARIEL radiometric model", 2020
To install ExoRad download the git archive and from the ExoRad folder run
pip install .
Once Exorad is installed in your system you can run it from console.
Run exorad -help to read the list of accepted keywords.
An example to ExoRad is provide in the ExoRad/examples folder. From the Exorad directory you can try
exorad -p examples/payload_example.xml -t examples/test_target.csv -o example_run/test.h5
The code output will appear in a directory called example_run
The documentation is available here
Or you can build the documentation yourself using sphinx . To install it run
pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
From the Exorad/docs folder running
cd docs
make html
Then you will find the html version of the documentation in Exorad/doc/build/html/index.html.