Abstract

Pandeia: The Exposure Time Calculator for JWST

Timothy Pickering (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Victoria G. Laidler, Karoline Gilbert, Christopher D. Sontag, Christine Slocum, Mark J. Sienkiewicz, Christopher Hanley, Nicholas M. Earl, Laurent Pueyo, Swara Ravindranath, Diane M. Karakla, Massimo Robberto, Alberto Noriega-Crespo, and Elizabeth A. Barker (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Pandeia is a simulation-hybrid, pixel-based ETC paired with a modern, graphical user interface, supporting all JWST science modes: imaging, spectroscopy (slitted, slitless, and IFU), coronagraphy, and aperture masking interferometry. The advanced user interface provides enhanced capabilities supporting multiple workflows. Users can create workbooks to save related sets of calculations, can create complex astronomical scenes with multiple sources, can compare the results of multiple calculations, and can copy and modify individual calculations or whole workbooks.

Mode of presentation: poster