Documentation
We provide the following documents:
- A paper: “The PLATO Solar-like Light-curve Simulator (PSLS): A tool to generate realistic stellar light-curves with instrumental effects representative of the PLATO mission“, Samadi et al, 2019, A&A, in press, if you use PSLS please cite this paper;
- A brief presentation (SLS PLATO week #5) given during the PLATO Week #5 held in Porto (October 2017).
The generation of a given simulation requires the edition of a configuration file in YAML format.
To execute PSLS, type:
psls.py -P -V psls.yaml
The option -V makes the program verbose while the option -P generates some plots.
As output, the program generates the simulated light-curve in an ASCII file named <code>ID</code>.dat, where is the <code>ID</code> of the star ID (any arbitrary number). By default a single light-curve obtained by averaging over all the camera is generated. With the option -F, the program generates a time series correspond to the merge of the mean light-curves obtained for each group of camera (the light-curves of each individual camera are in that case averaged over a camera group basis).
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Here below two other papers in connection with the simulator:
- “Simu-LC : a Light-Curve simulator for CoRoT”, Baudin et al, 2006, The Corot book, ESA SP 1306
- “Modelling space-based high-precision photometry for asteroseismic applications”, de Ridder et al, 2006, MNRAS