SIMCO, a Simulation Software for CONICA, the Coude NIR Camera for the Very Large Telescope

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Mar 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994exa.....3..121c&link_type=abstract

Experimental Astronomy, vol. 3, no. 1-4, p. 121-122

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Cameras, Computer Programs, Computerized Simulation, Image Processing, Infrared Telescopes, Windows (Computer Programs), Arrays, Infrared Astronomy, Infrared Detectors, Numerical Control

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CONICA is an acronym for Coude Near Infrared Camera. It is one of the four currently planned Infrared instruments for the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. This multimode instrument is to be installed at the Coude- focus (of Unit Telescope no. 1), where adaptive optics and speckle interferometry will also be available. High angular resolution imaging (to the diffraction limit) will be possible in the 1-5 micrometer range, as well as spectroscopy with low- and medium resolution and polarimetry my means of Wollaston prism and wiregrid analysers. Various softwares are developed for this instrument. One of them: the Simulation Software has a threefold aim: 1. provide the user with feedback information on his/her choices of observational parameters. This is be achieved by displaying the calculated performance and throughput of the combined Source-Atmosphere-Telescope-Camera-Detector system in various formats, such as images, tables, isophotical images. . . for point as well as for extended sources (also annular, double, etc.); 2. verify if his expectations are realistic, before actually using CONICA itself. 3. give feedback on the design to the developers of the instrument.

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