Feature request: Excess Noise in WFS

[jcranney]

Description

In other AO simulation tools (e.g., YAO, PASSATA) it is possible to simulate excess noise in the WFSs (in addition to the standard RON, photon noise, etc.). An example implementation can be found in the yao_fast.c file, line 1331. This should be relatively straightforward to implement and would improve the practicality of COMPASS.

In short, for a given excessnoise (default=1.0f), the flux is scaled by 1/(excessnoise*excessnoise) before computing the Poisson distributed pixel intensities, then afterwards the intensities are rescaled by excessnoise*excessnoise to restore the correct flux before the readout noise, etc, is added.

[a-sevin]

Hi Jesse and happy new year,
It's a good idea but we don't have a lot of time to spend on COMPASS.
We will have a look soon and we will release the version 5.1 in the same time.
Stay tuned !