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Issue tracking and script storage for SSTCAM investigations of night sky background
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Tangent Plane Investigation / Investigating Ways of Speeding up NSB #15

Open STSpencer opened 3 years ago

STSpencer commented 3 years ago

Garret suggested try to cut down on the time NSB takes using a tangent plane approximation and the gaia catalog as opposed to simulating the entire sky using healpix (as currently happens). Investigate this as a potential alternative to the current setup.

Edit: Numba is also an option to an extent, but it's limited in the supported packages, and it would mean sharing a custom version of nsb. From what I can see the only functions without a numpy/math/healpy dependency are :

nsbtools.py: nLbMag MagnLb

gaia/create.py getTotalFlux binarySearch