RT Conference Proceedings
T1 MCPSim-Py: an open source python-based simulator of the performance of MCP photon-counting detectors
A1 Prada Cazalla, Iván
A1 Yáñez Gestoso, Francisco Javier
A1 Gómez De Castro, Ana Inés
AB This contribution describes the open-source, python coded simulator MCP-PySim developed by our team to evaluate the performance of a given MCP architecture for a specific scientific purpose. The application is also designed to enable testing of user designed algorithms for event detection and centroiding for all types of sources and possible photon counting regimes. Unlike other tools, the MCP transfer function can be determined empirically from a set of images obtained from a real detector, ideally very similar to the one to be simulated. Also, it is feasible to characterize the MCP transfer function with a suit of parameters. Realistic simulations of the expected performance of space detectors can be carried in this manner to optimize the on-board software
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8930
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8930
LA eng
NO Prada Cazalla, I., Yález Gestoso, F. J. & Gómez De Castro, A. I. «MCPSim-Py: an open source python-based simulator of the performance of MCP photon-counting detectors». Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, editado por Jan-Willem A. Den Herder et al., SPIE, 2020, p. 333. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2576256.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 3 abr 2025