MKID Detect

Inspired by emccd_detect and the MKID Pipeline, for a given input flux map mkid_detect will return either an image or a simulated MKID photon list saved to an HDF5 file.

MKID data by nature can be quite memory intensive so caution should be taken to ensure memory issues are not encountered.

Installation

PyPI

mkid_detect is available on the PyPI repository and can be installed by running:

pip install mkid_detect

GitHub

Start by cloning the repository:

git clone git@github.com:steigersg/mkid_detect.git

Then run

pip install .

If you would like to edit or modify the package use the -e flag as:

pip install -e .

The MKIDDetect Class

There are two main ways to interact with MKIDDetect: The sim_output function and the sim_output_image function.

sim_output

will generate time and wavelength tagged photon lists similar to the outputs of an actual MKID detector.

sim_output_image

Will output a single integrated image which, by nature, marginalizes over all the timing information available to MKIDs but is much less time and memory intensive if just an image is desired.