tinytim

HST PSF generator

Version : 6.3
Author(s) : John Krist STSCI
License : STSCI
Website : http://www.stsci.edu/software/tinytim/tinytim.html

Installs from Open Source Astronomy for Linux cd 3
Disk space required for installation is 6.70 Mb

After the package is installed it can be accessed using the command


		/opt/astro/bin/starttinytim

The following printable documents will be installed :

/opt/astro/doc/tinytim.ps
/opt/astro/doc/tinytim.pdf

Summary

Tiny Tim is a program which generates simulated Hubble Space Telescope point spread functions (PSFs). It is written in C and distributed as source code and runs on a wide variety of UNIX and VMS systems. Tiny Tim was written by John Krist. Early NICMOS support was provided by Richard Hook (ST-ECF/ESO).

Tiny Tim includes mirror zonal errors, time dependent aberrations (for the pre-repair instruments), field dependent obscuration patterns (for WF/PC-1 and WFPC2), and filter passband effects. It can produce a normally sampled or subsampled PSF. Output is a FITS image file.