PhoSim - Tutorial 14

PhoSim Tutorial 14: How to Use Different Spectral Energy Distributions

The spectral energy distribution of every entry in the catalog can be customized. The objects automatically generated from the stars and galaxies commands have unique realistic SEDs. You can customize the SEDs in a number of different ways. An example of this is these three simple catalogs below which generate a M star, a Sun-like star, and an O star.

rightascension 0

declination 0

filter 1

object 0 -0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_3500.fits_g45_3500.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.0 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_5750.fits_g45_5750.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_40000.fits_g45_40000.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

rightascension 0

declination 0

filter 2

object 0 -0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_3500.fits_g45_3500.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.0 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_5750.fits_g45_5750.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_40000.fits_g45_40000.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

rightascension 0

declination 0

filter 3

object 0 -0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_3500.fits_g45_3500.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.0 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_5750.fits_g45_5750.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.01 0.0 15 Kurucz1993/kp00_40000.fits_g45_40000.gz 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

These catalogs use this library of SEDs can be used with PhoSim that are curated by the Spanish Virtual Observatory and the Space Telescope Institute. After downloading and untarring, these SEDs should be put into the directory data/SEDs

We then generated images using 3 separate phosim commands with -c examples/nobackground. Then a 3 color image can be made with the following command:

ds9 -rgb -red output/generic_e_9999_f3_chip_E000.fits.gz -scale log -green output/generic_e_9999_f2_chip_E000.fits.gz

-scale log -blue output/generic_e_9999_f1_chip_E000.fits.gz -scale log -rgb close

The corresponding 3 color image is below:

PhoSim Three Different Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs)

The clear chromatic differences of the 3 stars can be seen.

SEDs can also be made easily. A PhoSim formatted SED is two columns. The first column is the wavelength in nanometers. The second column is the flux in ergs per square centimeters per second per angstroms. An example of a simple SED is as follows:

400 0.0

450 1.0

500 2.0

550 1.0

600 0.0

The overall flux normalization is not important as the normalization is defined on a object by object basis, and not in the SED. PhoSim therefore automatically renormalizes every SED. The wavelength grid does not have to be uniform either and can also start and stop at any wavelength where the spectrum is relevant. The files can also remain gzipped to reduce space, and PhoSim will read the files while gzipped. A monochromatic SED would simply be one line as:

600 1.0