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sim:development_plan

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Development plan / Milestones

for each milestone, the minimum required points to release that version are given; additional goals (best effort basis) are printed in Italics.

0.1 (June 2018)

Simcado with bug fixes to support simulations at 3-20 microns
Configuration files for METIS L and N band imaging
Transmission curves (sky emission / absorption, mirror reflectivity, entrance window, detector QE, dichroic transmission, filter curves) extended and/or adapted for METIS L and N bands
iPython notebooks with example use cases for both LM and NQ band imaging
output fluxes in L and N band imaging verified against Roy’s fluxes document

0.2 (July 2018)

bug fixes
properly implement cold stop(s) in METIS
all filter curves
M band
Q band
create pickled OpticalTrain objects for all METIS imaging observing modes for faster operation

0.3 (aim: September 2018, dependent on core SimCADO development)

Long-slit mode with sensitivities verified against Roy’s fluxes document
bug fixes
updates for instrument configuration files

0.4 (aim: October 2018, dependent on core SimCADO development)

IFU mode implemented with sensitivities verified against Roy’s fluxes document
bug fixes
updates for instrument configuration files

1.0 (aim: December 2018, dependent on Simcado development and humanpower available at NOVA)

Aquarius noise generator included (including ELFN, non-linear gain curve, correlated noise)
All METIS modes implemented, tested and verified against theoretical expectations and/or actual observations with similar instruments (e.g. VISIR, NaCO, SINFONI)
Example notebooks available and reproducibly executable for all METIS modes

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