A software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE imaging photometer

Bruce Sibthorpe; Adam L. Woodcraft; Matthew J. Griffin; Steven Lloyd Watkin

doi:10.1117/12.550363

12 October 2004 A software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE imaging photometer

Bruce Sibthorpe, Adam L. Woodcraft, Matthew J. Griffin, Steven Lloyd Watkin

Proceedings Volume 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550363
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

SPIRE, the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver, is one of three instruments to be flown on ESA's Herschel Space Observatory. It contains a three-band submillimetre camera and an imaging Fourier transform spectrometer, and uses arrays of feedhorn-coupled bolometric detectors operating at a temperature of 300 mK. Detailed software simulators are being developed for the SPIRE photometer and spectrometer. The photometer simulator is based on an adaptable modular representation of the relevant instrument and telescope subsystems, and is designed to produce highly realistic science and housekeeping data timelines. It will be used for a variety of purposes, including instrument characterisation during ground testing and in orbit, testing and optimisation of operating modes and strategies, evaluation of data reduction software using simulated data streams (derived by "observing" a simulated sky intensity distribution with the simulator), observing time estimation, and diagnostics of instrument systematics. In this paper we present the current status of the photometer simulator and the future development and implementation strategy.

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Bruce Sibthorpe, Adam L. Woodcraft, Matthew J. Griffin, and Steven Lloyd Watkin "A software simulator for the Herschel-SPIRE imaging photometer", Proc. SPIE 5487, Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Space Telescopes, (12 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550363

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