This notebooks demonstrates how to use the AGILE truth catalog in order to simulate synthetic LSST images.
We use imSim (https://lsstdesc.org/imSim/index.html) to simulate the images. The purpose of this notebook is not to doucment the feature of imSim, but only to demonstrate how to pass our truth catalog as input to imSim, and how to run software using the tools available in AGILE. Note that imSim only simulates raw LSSTCam data (incl. e.g. sky and instrumental noise), which are not science ready products. The raw images are processed in subsequent steps by using the LSST Science pipelines.
Below, we provide helpful links and resources to further understand the LSST survey, LSSTCam, and the survey strategy.
+ VRO survey strategy: https://survey-strategy.lsst.io/
The following notebook may be accessed [here](https://www.ict.inaf.it/gitlab/akke.viitanen/lsst_inaf_agile/-/blob/a619e4244f56e731d11724f8a70dd5e7d6e1fda4/docs/notebooks/simulate-images.ipynb)
Simulating any large dataset is a computationally expensive task. To simulate any significantly large dataset (such as the AGILE DR1), one is adviced to wrap the `image_simulator.simulate_image` into a callable script which could be executed with multiple cores and/or threads. In AGILE DR1, this orchestration was done with slurm (https://slurm.schedmd.com/documentation.html).