MIRAGE: Multi-Instrument RAmp GEnerator

Contents:

• Overview
• Installing MIRAGE
• Reference Files
• Source Catalog File Formats
• Addition of Ghosts to Mirage Simulations
• Tools for Creating Source Catalogs
• Simulating Observations from an APT File
• Example yaml Input File
• Simulating Imaging data with Mirage
• Simulating WFSS data with Mirage
• Simulating TSO data with Mirage
• Mirage’s Three Stages
• Creation of Seed Images
• Preparation of the Dark Current Exposure
• Generate Observation
• Logging with Mirage

Contributors

Mirage is based on early NIRISS simulator software written by Kevin Volk. It has been developed by a group of core contributors from STScI:

• Bryan Hilbert

• Kevin Volk

• Lauren Chambers

• Johannes Sahlmann

• Shannon Osborne

• Marshall Perrin

• Nor Pirzkal

• Joe Filippazzo

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page