Wayne is a telescope simulator used to generate realistic data with all noise sources, reductions and systematics. Currently it is applied to the HST WFC IR instrument which uses two grisms, G102 and G141 for spectroscopy. The project has a particular focus on transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets.
For WFC3 IR, Wayne currently simulates:
- Staring Mode
- Spatial Scan Mode
- Scan Speed Variations
- Ramp or hook trend
- X and Y positional shifts
- Cosmic Rays
- Flat Field, Bias, Gain etc
- Read noise, stellar noise, sky background etc
Wayne is designed to be adapted to more instruments and systematics.
Wayne is a standalone program that should be ran in its own environement. It has not been tested with different package versions. To avoid issues installing wayne, or the installation breaking other python programs, we recomend using either virtualenvs or conda environments. This will save you alot of headache.
If you are using conda, create a python2 virtual environment with numpy/gcc/cython, and activate it
conda create -n wayne python=2 numpy=1.14.3 gcc=4.8.5 cython=0.28.2
source activate wayne
Clone this repo, move to the new directory and install Wayne
git clone https://github.com/ucl-exoplanets/wayne.git
cd wayne
python setup.py install
Test an example
cd examples
wayne -p hd209458b_12181_simulation_parameters.yml
If you are developing the package, you should install in edit mode instead so you are not required to install the package again after every update
pip install -e .
Wayne is ran by using the wayne command and a parameter file.
A bunch of these are included in the examples folder. Move to this directory and give one a try.
wayne -p hd209458b_12181_simulation_parameters.yml
This will take a while.
Great! An easy way to get involved is by addressing some of the raised issues or improving the test coverage by adding new tests. If you have a new feature idea you would like to implement please raise an issue first explaining what you plan to do. All contributions should be submitted using pull requests.
Please raise a github issue explaining the problem
After struggling to find a good name we just chose one. Wayne is a character in the Mistborn (Era 2) books who is an expert at imitation.