Cosmological Source Catalog (Command-Line Version)

This script shows how to make a tailor-made distribution of photons from a distribution of cosmological halos and simulate an observation of them.

#!/bin/sh

# Use this script to create a distribution of photons from cosmological
# halos and simulate an observation.

# First, make the photons from the halos into a SIMPUT catalog, saving
# the halo properties to a table file and choosing "33" as a random seed
# to insure we get the same sources every time. Set the catalog pointing
# location using the "cat_center" argument. To aid in picking a location,
# see the halo map at http://hea-www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jzuhone/soxs/users_guide/source_catalog.html.
make_cosmological_sources my_cat.simput cosmo 200.0,ks 20. 30.,45. --cat_center=3.1,-1.9 --random_seed=33 --overwrite --output_sources=halo_source_table.dat

# Take the SIMPUT catalog and make an event file.
instrument_simulator my_cat.simput cosmo_cat_evt.fits 200.0,ks lynx_hdxi 30.,45. --overwrite

Download this script here: cosmo_source_catalog.sh

The resulting event file looks like this in ds9: