Implement various types of noise to notebook-based simulation

[KeeganTP]

I am generating synthetic data products in a jupyter notebook environment, in preparation for the upcoming PLATO-GO proposal deadline. This includes creating my own variability files, and generating various photometric data products for specific targets present within the field (e.g. an 8.5 magnitude A-type star showing dSct pulsations and rotational modulation). For these aspects, the tutorials in the Git documentation (as well as the PIC2102 notebook) have been a great help.

Now, I'm trying to find out how to implement a combination of "realistic" error sources (e.g. PRE, APE, TED, ACS, ...), but unfortunately I cannot find any tutorials on how best to do this, and am struggling to determine how best to integrate these parameters into the yaml file and into the simulations. At this stage, I only want to generate data for a single quarter, but I anticipate eventually scaling this up to full 2-year simulations once everything is working as expected.

For reference, I am working with PlatoSim 3.7.0-182-g5e29a980, and I have attached a MWE of my notebook so you can see what I've done so far. Thanks in advance of your reply!

MWE.ipynb

[JorisDeRidder]

Hi KeeganTP, we actually advise to use Platonium, the user-friendly Python interface to PlatoSim. This toolkit lets you focus on the astrophysical aspects, and auto-sets all PlatoSim configurations to their proper settings to have realistic instrumental noise.

[KeeganTP]

Thank you for your response, Joris, but as far as I understand Platonium, it doesn’t work well for simulating specific targets in the PLATO field, but rather generic ones. If you have a suggestion on how to effectively replicate my notebook to simulate the data products for a star with a given magnitude, user-specified variability (not generated from the standard varsim catalogs), user-specified contaminants each with their own type of variability, and full noise budget using Platonium, I’m very eager to learn. Thanks in advance!

[JorisDeRidder]

Hi KeeganTP, Platonium can be used to simulate specific targets. Please have a look at the tutorial. Although Platonium has some built-in functions to generate variability time series of common variability types, nothing prevents you from creating your own variability time series with your own preferred tools, and use this as an input.