BUCS: An Engine For Generating Realistic Imaging Data for Deep Galaxy Fields

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2006-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605729v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, conference proceedings to the ADASS XV meeting in El Escorial

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Today's deep high resolution multiwavelength surveys contain a wealth of information about galaxies at different epochs. To fully exploit this information, it is useful to be able to produce highly realistic simulations to compare with the observations. Here, we describe one such simulator for producing imaging data for deep galaxy fields. Based upon a pixel-by-pixel modelling of object SEDs and their selection volumes, this simulator allows users to make realistic multicolor simulations of galaxy fields from galaxy samples at all redshifts. Input samples for this simulator range from z~0 samples selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to z~1-6 samples selected from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. Users can specify the passbands, noise, and PSFs, or equivalently the exposure times on well-known instruments like HST or ground-based telescopes.

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