Another tool from the A* Vienna software team

AnisoCADO is the python package created around Eric Gendron’s code for analytically generating field-varying SCAO PSFs for the ELT.

A grid of SCAO PSFs at 2.15um covering 14 arcsec on the MICADO field of view

Contents:

• Getting Started
  • The basics
  • Example: Off-axis Stehl ratios
  • In-built atmospheric profiles
  • Creating a field-varying PSF FITS file for SimCADO
  • Setting atmospheric parameters
• PSF Library
  • PSF radial profiles and images
• Reference API
  • Subpackages
  • Submodules
  • Module contents

Installation

pip install anisocado

Basic Usage

Note

See Getting Started for a more in-depth introduction

Warning

This is still the alpha release of AnisoCADO.

We will attempt to maintain backwards compatiblity, however we cannot guarantee that the API will remain the same as the package evolves.

The most needed functionality is based around the AnalyticalScaoPsf class. Create one like this

from anisocado import AnalyticalScaoPsf
psf = AnalyticalScaoPsf(N=512, wavelength=2.15)     # wavelength in um

(Source code)

where (for the moment) N is the side length of the PSF kernel image and wavelength is the central wavelength [um] of the PSF that we wish to simulate.

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

When we create an AnalyticalScaoPsf object, an initial PSF is created that is on-axis. This can be accessed with the .psf_on_axis attribute.

To “move” the PSF off-axis, we call the .shift_off_axis(dx, dy) method. Here dx, dy are in arcseconds.

psf.shift_off_axis(15, -10)

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

(Source code, png, hires.png, pdf)

We can access this PSF in two ways: as a numpy array with .kernel or as an astropy ImageHDU object with .hdu. Here the kernel is kept in the .data attribute, while the header contains all the parameters used to create the PSF kernel:

psf.kernel
psf.hdu.data

Write PSF to a FITS file

Given that the PSF can create an astropy ImageHDU object, we can take advantage of the astropy functionality and and override the .writeto() method of an astropy ImageHDU object:

psf.writeto("My_SCAO_PSF.fits")

Obviously this will only work for single PSFs. We will normally want to create multiple SCAO PSFs for different wavelengths and different positions over the field of view. To do this we can simply loop over a series of coordinates and add the HDUs to an astropy HDUList object.

from astropy.io import fits

psf = AnalyticalScaoPsf(N=256, wavelength=2.15)    # um
hdus = []
for x in np.arange(-25, 26, 12.5):
    for y in np.arange(-25, 26, 12.5):
        psf.shift_off_axis(x, y)
        hdus += [psf.hdu]

hdu_list = fits.HDUList(hdus)
hdu_list.writeto("My_bunch_of_SCAO_PSFs.fits")

(Source code)

(Source code)

Change Log

• 2023.07.10 :

  • Release 0.3.0

  • Rename MAORY to MORFEO

  • Support Python 3.8 to 3.11

  • Fix Read The Docs

• 2023.05.03 :

  • Release 0.2.3

  • Switch to pyproject.toml

  • Support Python 3.7 to 3.11

• 2023.02.01 :

  • Fix bugs to support numpy 2.24

  • Release 0.2.2

• 2021.10.21 :

  • Upgraded Numpy dependency to v1.17 to use numpy.random.default_rng

  • Removed support for Python 2.7

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