EROSITAwiki: EroCat/eSASSdevel/APETOOL

Description of performance tests and simulations relevant to the APETOOL and SHAPELIB libraries.

Simulations are underway to test the following aspects relevant to apetool and shapelib:

1. How well/accurate can the shapelet-PSF model determine the flux of point-sources: simulate fields (both survey-mode and pointed) with a grid of point sources of fixed flux and spectral. Run ermldetect to detect the sources and measure their flux and compare with the input one.
2. How well can APETOOL reconstruct the selection function of eROSITA observations: simulate fields (both survey-mode and pointed) with a point-sources with fluxes drawn from a logN-logS distribution and fixed spectral shape. Run ERLDETECT and ptoduce a source list, APETOOL to threshold at a given false detection probability and estimate field sensitivities. Reconstruct input logN-logS and compare.

The relevant simulations are based on modified versions of Nicolas Clerc's python scripts described here. The main modifications are: (i) functions to generate attitude files for both survey and pointed observations (ii) place sources in a grid of fixed spacing within the survey field, (iii) use of simple power-law X-ray spectra with a choice of Gammas for the point sources, (iv) functionality to produce sources of fixed flux. A tarball with the relevant python scripts can be found [[|here(to be added soon)]].

Progress so far

Simulations of sources with flux f_X(0.5-2)=2e-12cgs in grid. Pointed observations and survey fields have been simulated. The latter use the attitude file: oneyearsurvey_att.fits. Sixte and Simput versions 2.2.0 have been used. The EROSIM task with the XML files and the Panter PSF (256M!) was run followed by the ERO_CALEVENTS task.

The event files produced by this simulation for each telescope separately and merged into a single file (via evtool call) can be found here

Issues with simulations: