Instrument Simulator

The simulator notebooks are maintained as executable examples in the simulator repository and rendered here without re-running their cells.

Simulator Examples

• ScopeSim Overview

• ScopeSim Sources

• Kilonovae Observation

• ZSpec Performance

• ZImager

• Image Quality

• SPIE 2026

Coming Soon

• Binder/Google Colab Simulator environment

Useful external links

ScopeSim’s own documentation is a great place to dig deeper. The instrument package discussed above allows the science team and potential users to explore the instrument’s anticipated capabilities early.

• ScopeSim documentation

• ScopeSim GitHub repository