exorad 2.1.68

The generic point source radiometric model

ExoRad 2.0: The generic point source radiometric model

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:

1. Signals in pixels
2. Saturation times
3. read noise
4. photon noise
5. dark current noise
6. zodiacal bkg
7. inner sanctum
8. sky foreground

Reports

The code is under development, so, please report any issue or inaccuracy to the developers to support the implementation.

Cite

ExoRad has been developed from ArielRad. If you use this software please cite: Mugnai et al, "ArielRad: the ARIEL radiometric model", 2020 (doi: 10.1007/s10686-020-09676-7)

Installation

To install ExoRad download the git archive and from the ExoRad folder run

pip install .

Run

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

Documentation

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.