Getting started

With Gen TSO you can produce JWST simulated spectra in as few as four simple steps.
Lets start launching the application from the prompt:

tso

1 Select target

A drop down menu lets you search/type for confirmed planets and TESS candidates (data provided by the NASA Exoplanet Archive). Once a target is selected:

  • Editable fileds are automatically filled with the system properties
  • A link provides the target’s name aliases full system properties
  • A link leads you to the NASA Exoplanet Archive
  • A link displays the exisiting JWST programs on the host star

2 Set instrument and mode

The top menu lets you select the JWST instrument and mode:

  • All TSO spectroscopic and acquisition modes are available
  • The detector setup panel gets automatically updated for the current instrument
  • The right interactive viewer shows the available filter throughputs of the instrument

3 Set transit/eclipse model

The transit or eclipse depth spectrum encodes the core of a science case, so this is the one bit of information that a user has to provide. In the Gen TSO application users can:

4 Run Pandeia

Now you are ready to simulate a TSO with JWST. Gen TSO provides many features to facilitate this step as well. Before a run:

Once a Pandeia simulation has finished:

Bonus: Target Acquisition

Here’s one my favorite features. While Gen TSO offers acquisition on a science target, sometimes the target is just too bright. For such cases you can:

  • Search for Gaia stellar sources around the science target
  • Use the ESASky viewer to guide and select a nearby target
  • Run the acquisition on the nearby target
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