DETECT
Detection Efficiency and Threshold Estimation for Characterization of Transients
Estimate detection thresholds and recovery curves for Rubin images near bright host galaxies.
DETECT measures detection efficiency through source injection, image subtraction and forced photometry. Its public Rubin DP1 research code produces recovery curves and threshold estimates for specific images, templates and target positions, supporting transient studies such as searches for precursor emission.
Maturity
Not specified
Access
Public
No portal sign-in is required.
Maintainers
Tobias Géron
What it supports
Use cases
- Detection thresholds
- Recovery curves
- Source injection
- Pre-supernova variability
Where it runs
Runtime homes
GitHub / templateGitHub
Running DETECT requires the Rubin Science Pipelines, typically on the Rubin Science Platform. DP2 compatibility is being developed.
Runtime, inputs & outputs
- Distributions
- Source repository
- Runtime
- not-applicable
- Access
- public
- Inputs
- Not specified
- Outputs
- Not specified
Names & abbreviations
- CADC
- Canadian Astronomy Data Centre
- CanDIAPL
- Canadian Data Intensive Astrophysics Platform
Connected work
Related science context
Stellar classification and detection thresholdsPublic flexAE and DETECT code supports photometric classification and detection studies; MultiStarFitting and DETECT DP2 compatibility are current development priorities.