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from Ralf Siebenmorgen at CM06, May 2018
simulating drift scans and compare it with chop/nod
when possible please use naming of parameters as in the instrument dictionary of INS
we shall have more discussions on artefacts by the system (sky, telescope, instrument) that shall be considered or not in the simulator
I appreciate the use of the simulator for testing and verifying the science case performances (at least the major one and one use case per observing mode) also by MST
When possible and applicable please benchmark the new against the old (idl) simulator
Other ideas
Future developments by Simcado classes
OpticalTrain
include time-resolved jitter effects
include sub-pixel shifts for spectro-spatial effects for Vortex coronagraphy
instrument-internal emission (possibly requiring a different treatment of the global transmission/emission model)
List of transmissive elements (e.g. multiple dichroics currently not supported)
Implement fixed ADCs (give residuals of the partial atmospheric dispersion correction as static input?)
Detector