Astronomical Survey Conditions

If you are trying to build a set of simulated data with the same characteristics as astronomical survey experiments, then look no further than the deeplenstronomy.surveys functionality.

The available surveys are:

If you operate in one of these modes, the IMAGE and SURVEY sections of your configuration file will be overwritten with the characteristics of the specified astronomical survey. These characteristics are found in the surveys module.

For example, we can look at the Hubble Space Telescope (hst):

These are the IMAGE and SURVEY conditions needed to produce Hubble Space Telescope-like images.

Simulating a dataset with survey conditions

deeplenstronomy offers a simple way of introducing these pre-written sections into your configuration file through its make_dataset() function. Just set survey to the desired survey from the list above.

We can inspect the image using deeplenstornomy's built-in visualization functions.

We can compare to a different survey, with noticeable different image quality:

In new_dataset we are not simulating exactly the same system, since new parameters are drawn from specified distributions each time make_dataset() is called. However, the difference in seeing and pixel_scale between the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Hubble Space Telescope are certainly observable.