To Do List¶
- Formatted survey options printout.
- Use latest fitsio for writing simulation output.
- Use better 8-char names and add comments to FITS headers.
- Is the optical PSF making any difference? How much does it slow down simulate?
- Implement a ‘exposure-time calculator’ to calculate quantities for a profile specified on the command line (idea from Josh Meyers).
- Include a prior on dilation scale parameter for error estimation?
- Add ra,dec pointing and WCS to FITS primary HDU written by simulate.
- More flexible handling of the ra,dec catalog query window (we currently assume the query is centered near the origin).
- python 2-to-3 migration: from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
- Add zscale color gradient and angular scale legend options to display.py
- Add option to specify display view bounds independently of selected objects.
- Increase simulated area (from 1 LSST chip) for data products?
- Add option to add arbitrary fraction of 2*pi to all position angles (for ring tests).
Longer-Term Projects¶
- Validate galaxy input catalog quantities against existing datasets.
- Add stars from some catalog and estimate their contributions to blending statistics.
- Integrate over survey observing conditions (seeing, sky, ...) using operations simulator output.
- Test toy deblender performance on simulated images (Josh Myers).
- Compare sextractor object detection with snr_grp detection threshold (Mandeep Gill).
- Compare DM pipeline object detection with snr_grp detection threshold.
- Use PhoSim to generate realistic bright-star templates that could be used in GalSim (Chris Walter).
- Compare GalSim and PhoSim images generated for the same catalog footprint (Matt Wiesner).
- Characterize galaxies that look like stars (Alex Abate + Elliott Cheu + Arizona undergrad).
- Compare CFHTLS predictions with published results (Dominique Boutigny).
- Compare DES predictions with actual DES imaging.
- Add survey parameters for HSC to Survey class and compare predictions with actual HSC imaging (Rachel Mandelbaum).
- Include CatSim SEDs to implement band-dependent bulge/disk ratios and synthesize non-LSST magnitudes.
- Study dependence of full-depth neff on assumed mean sky noise and seeing.