SimCADO Gallery

Images from recent simulations with SimCADO

This is the lightcurve that follows the shape of the Crab Pulsar, but scaled so that each pulse is easily visible in a 5ms windowed H-band exposure with MICADO. The star is H=15mag. The light curve has been extracted from the intermediate non-destructive reads from an up-the-ramp simulated exposure.

Omega Cen as imaged with HST/WFC3, HST/SimCADO and MICADO/SimCADO by Maximilian Fabricius (MPE). The synthetic images of the same region of Omega Cen are based on the HST catalog by Anderson & van der Marel 2010 and augmented by all the faint stars that did not end up in the HST catalogue.

A galaxy field based on B, R and Halpha images of the Antennae galaxy generated with SimCADO as a proof of concept. The image includes all ways of generating input for SimCADO: importing intensity maps from real (HST) images, generating galaxies based on a sersic profile in memory, and basic stars as point sources with spectra from the Pickles (1998) catalogue. The code to generate this image can be found in the Notebooks section.