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| Paper: |
BUCS: An Engine For Generating Realistic Imaging Data for Deep Galaxy Fields |
| Volume: |
351, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XV |
| Page: |
145 |
| Authors: |
Bouwens, R.J.; Illingworth, G.D.; Magee, D.K. |
| Abstract: |
Today's deep high resolution multiwavelength surveys contain a wealth of information about galaxies at different epochs. To fully exploit this information, it is useful to be able to produce highly realistic simulations to fit with the observations. Here, we describe one such simulator for producing imaging data for deep galaxy fields. Based upon a pixel-bypixel modelling of object SEDs and their selection volumes, this simulator (BUCS: Bouwens' Universe Construction Set) allows users to make realistic multicolor simulations of galaxy fields from galaxy samples at all redshifts. Input samples for this simulator range from z ∼ 0 samples selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to z ∼ 1 − 6 samples selected from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. Users can specify the passbands, noise, and PSFs, or equivalently the exposure times on well-known instruments like HST or ground-based telescopes. This simulator provides the community with a real world virtual observatory, useful both at the proposal stage and for making comparisons with observations in hand. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce this tool to the computational community as a whole. |
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