Dorado is a proposed space mission for ultraviolet follow-up of gravitational wave events. This repository contains a simple sensitivity and exposure time calculator for Dorado.
This package can estimate the signal to noise, exposure time, or limiting magnitude for an astronomical source with a given spectrum using the CCD signal to noise equation. It models the following noise contributions:
- Zodiacal light
- Airglow (geocoronal emission)
- Diffuse Galactic emission
- Standard CCD noise (shot noise, read noise, dark current)
To install with Pip:
$ pip install dorado-sensitivity
For examples, see the Jupyter notebook.