/source_injection

Synthetic Source Injection (SSI) tasks for the LSST Science Pipelines

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source_injection

The source_injection package contains tools designed to assist in the injection of synthetic sources into scientific imaging. Source generation and subsequent source injection is powered by the GalSim software package.

For more information, see the source_injection documentation on pipelines.lsst.io.

An HSC i-band cutout from tract 9813, patch 42, showing the injection of a series of synthetic Sérsic sources.

An HSC i-band cutout from tract 9813, patch 42, showcasing the injection of a series of synthetic Sérsic sources. Images are ~100 arcseconds on the short axis, log scaled, and smoothed with a Gaussian kernel.

Tract 9813, patch 42, HSC i-band cutout, before source injection.
Before injection.
Tract 9813, patch 42, HSC i-band cutout, after source injection.
After injection.